Official Site:
http://www.godsandheroes.comBeta Sign Up Site:
https://community.godsandheroes.com/blue/register.jsp Description Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising™
is set in the early days of Rome's eventual march to greatness - circa 300 B.C. Rome is a City State still developing its military and cultural strengths and beginning to feel its ambition for expansion and conquest. To fulfill its goals Rome will strive to extend her borders and influence - creating enemies both near and far.
Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising™ offers vast persistent territory and hundreds of dynamically generated areas that span a wide variety of the known and Mythological worlds - offering a huge range of terrain types including cities, towns, farmland, forests, mountains, high-alpine artic regions, marshes, seashores, northern frontiers, islands, and Mythological Realms.
Action Combat System
Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising™ will implement the most visually stunning and visceral combat system of any MMOG. Our Node-Lock™ animation technology allows all characters - human, creature, beast - to execute real attacks and defenses and have them truly impact their opponent physically. As players progress in the game, they will earn and learn new Feats - attacks, defenses, and combat special moves - that come with their own unique animations. Enemies will also have a set of combat special moves that they will execute mercilessly to turn the tide of battle
Features:
* The Gods, Creatures, and Monsters of mythology
* Squad-based combat in which players hire, train, and lead squads of NPC soldiers into battle
* Large scale battles where groups of squads form up into player-run armies
* An intricate quest system with over 1,200 quests
* A game-spanning epic quest path for every player
* An action animation system delivering the most realistic and visceral combat action of any MMOG
* Gauls, Barbarians, Samnites and more classic enemies of Rome
* Dynamic Zone™ technology and hundreds of scripted adventures providing the best of single-player game mechanics - all unfolding in private, uncontested world-areas for individuals and groups to experience
* Future game expansions will add new territory that expands across the map of the world - North, South, East, and West - adding new player races, mythologies, Gods, and creatures.
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Official Site:
http://www.burningsea.com/Beta Sign Up Site:
http://www.flyinglab.com/pirates/beta.php Description Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game set in the Caribbean islands of the 18th Century. You play a bold sea captain, master of your own ship and crew, as you seek glory and adventure across the trackless deep.
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Official Site:
http://www.warhammeronline.com Description Key Features
Based on Games Workshop's popular Warhammer fantasy world. Dominated by force of arms and
magic, this world provides a rich setting for hundreds of thousands of players to experience the epic
nature of war and the glory of battle.
Join one of six Armies and fight for the Armies of Order (Dwarf, High Elf and Empire) or
the Armies of Destruction (Greenskin, Dark Elf, or Chaos). Wage war across three unique battlefronts.
Next generation Realm vs. Realm game system integrating both PvP combat and PvE quests on the
same map in support of the greater war.
Engage in four levels of RvR combat:
- Skirmishes: Incidental PvP combat
- Battlefields: Objective-based battles in the game world
- Scenarios: Instanced, point-based battles balanced with NPC Dogs of War
- Campaigns: The invasion of enemy lands culminating in the assault on their capital city
Undertake a wide variety of PvE quest types related to an army's war efforts, including:
- Public quests that benefit from the participation of the entire army
- Conflict quests that pit players against an enemy with opposing goals
- Branching quests that let you choose the outcome of the quest and your reward
- Xmas quests that reward exploration with high value loot
A robust combat system introduces Player Tactics (earned powers you equip prior to battle) and
Morale Skills (combat options that increase in power when the momentum of battle is in your favor).
Player models that change to reflect the relative power of a character (i.e., Orcs grow in size and
Dwarfs' beards get longer). Customizable armor and a visual guild system allow a player to make their
character truly unique.
Embark on an epic quest to complete the Tome of Knowledge and unlock Warhammer lore, detailed
monster information, and major story plotlines.
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Official Site:
http://www.playtr.com/Beta Sign Up Site:
http://www.playtr.com/beta/index.html DescriptionTabula Rasa™ is the latest massively multiplayer entertainment experience to come from the legendary creative mind of Richard Garriott and the all-star team of industry professionals at Destination Games. Developed from the ground up to be stable, fast and fun, Tabula Rasa™ represents a refreshing new approach to the design of multiplayer online games.
The character development process provides the novice player with an ability to explore and discover the game universe at their own pace without committing to a specific play style. Seasoned gamers will appreciate the challenging strategy and complex depth found in similar games.
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Official Site:
http://www.ageofconan.com/Beta Sign Up Site:
http://beta1.ageofconan.com/beta_application/ DescriptionAge of Conan – Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG scheduled for Windows in 2006. A mix of a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan. Now you can enter the brutal domain of the world’s greatest fantasy hero.
In Conan the players will encounter a dark, lush, violent and sinful universe, presented in fantastic graphics and stunning 7.1 surround audio. In a world filled with cruel gods, mythical creatures, lost civilizations and a struggling human race, the mighty barbarian has finally seized the throne as king of Aquilonia. But Conan’s rule is on the brink of chaos, spiraling towards the doom of ancient evils.
In this twisted fantasy world, dark magic and brutal combat lurks around every corner, and each man and woman must carve their own unique destiny under Conan’s reign. In the true vision of Robert E. Howard’s dark universe it’s now time for you to become a messenger of death.
* Explore Hyboria, the legendary world of Conan, presented in incredible graphics and sound.
* Emerge as a hero from a story-driven single-player experience and embark into even greater adventures in the multiplayer part of the game. The branching single-player story is created by the award-winning writers behind The Longest Journey, Dreamfall and Anarchy Online so expect a rare treat.
* Experience Funcom’s revolutionary “Real Combat” engine. A new multi-point melee system allows the players to swing their weapons where they direct it, in real-time, going head-on against the formulaic nature of online RPG combat.
* Create player-made battle formations, and command both NPC’s and other players in epic multiplayer battles.
* Form guilds in the multiplayer game and lay siege to hostile castles. Let the catapults sing their merry song of death as the enemy is brutally crushed to a pulp
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Official Site:
http://www.thechroniclesofspellborn.comBeta Sign Up Site:
http://www.tcos.com/beta/beta.php DescriptionThe Chronicles of Spellborn is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the Enclave of the Five Sacrifices. This enclave is a collection of rock realms drifting through the DeadSpell Storm.
The DeadSpell Storm allows the world to exist in a mythical state; inhabited shards of rock float through a breathable void that boils with elder power. Nothing but a common history and ancient magic prevents the shards from falling into oblivion.
These levitating rock-realms contain mountains, forests, fields, villages and cities built on the pieces of a broken world. To travel from one realm to the other, you have to fly through a maelstrom of restless magic and brave the many dangers which the ever shifting storms hide
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Darkfall - im not even gonna bother. I prefer to call it forumfall