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This upcoming RPG from Vircom features four different factions.
The world of online gaming is seeing an explosion of new content these days. Games such as Anarchy Online and Dark Age of Camelot have already joined established players--such as Everquest and Asheron's Call--in the online arena. And marquee games such as Star Wars Galaxies and World of Warcraft are slated to enter the massively multiplayer space in the coming years. With all this competition, all online games, and especially massively multiplayer role-playing games, need an angle or something significantly new to break through the noise. One such game with a unique premise is Black Moon Chronicles, an upcoming MMORPG set to arrive on store shelves later this month.
While other games are trying to push the envelope in terms of graphics and technology, Black Moon Chronicles is taking itself out of the graphics race and instead going for a very stylized look. It's a smart move, as it helps distinguish Black Moon Chronicles from all the Everquest clones. At the same time, Black Moon's look is very familiar to gamers, for the entire game looks like a comic book. From the outset, the game has that comic book look and feel. Everything has bright, solid colors, and characters are drawn in a comic book style. When conversions occur between characters and NPCs, the dialogue appears as word balloons over the characters. Even the text is written in the classic comic book font. It's all perfectly understandable once you realize that this game is based on a series of French graphic novels. The Black Moon comics are rich in story and world details, and the game draws heavily from those influences, promising a deep and involving story as well.
In the world of Black Moon Chronicles, the once mighty Empire is under siege from dark forces. You play an orphan from the lands of Lhynn, where years ago a devastating massacre took place. Besieged by an army of evil, the towns of the land were ransacked and destroyed. Those few who survived this awful ordeal were called the Chosen Ones. They were taken away from Lhynn, either rescued by good people from other lands or kidnapped by the evil armies themselves. Your character in this game is a Chosen One and was raised by one of the game's four factions, which raised these orphans in its own lands.
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- Sep 28, 2001
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- Release: Canceled
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