Soul of the Ultimate Nation Impressions - Overview

By Andrew Park, GameSpotPosted Jun 4, 2009 9:49 pm PT

We take a brief look at this upcoming free-to-play fantasy online game at E3 2009.

Soul of the Ultimate Nation is one of many free-to-play massively multiplayer online games present at E3 2009, though unfortunately, it was present only as a brief trailer. The game will apparently be launched stateside by Ijji.com.

Who's Making This Game: SUN was originally developed by WebZen and launched in Asia in 2007, though it's being adapted for North American audiences by Huxley PC publisher Ijji.com.

What The Game Looks Like: SUN looks like a colorful hack-and-slash online role-playing game with plenty of knights in exaggeratedly bulky armor and wizards tossing colorful particle effects.

What There Is To Do: Kill monsters, gain treasures, gain experience levels, join an in-game guild, and eventually participate in high-end player-versus-player battles.

How The Game Is Played: You can choose one of five characters: the dragon knight, the berserker, the valkyrie, the elementalist, and the shadow. After you've chosen your character, you use it to go out into the world and kill stuff.

What They Say: SUN will be a fun and addictive hack-and-slash game with a "cash-op" microtransaction store, though Ijji.com isn't commenting on what will be sold there.

What We Say: Considering that the game was originally released two years ago, Ijji.com has its work cut out for it to make the game competitive with the many, many, many, many free-to-play fantasy online games out there. SUN will be launched in the US later this year.

10 Comments

  • yichun4

    Posted Oct 17, 2009 12:50 pm PT

    this game is bad. Trust me.

  • Sasquacz

    Posted Sep 23, 2009 9:16 am PT

    yes its true it will propably be like silk road etc but i see this game is a little step ahead of any other competition. again its true that free games not in all cases are better than thouse we need to pay to play but hey nothing in life is rly free right?XD
    when SUN will come to europe i will welcome it with my hands open XD

  • SDBusDriver1979

    Posted Sep 22, 2009 1:03 pm PT

    I was gunna say - isn't this game like every other free to play fantasy mmo? Silk Road anyone?

  • gmax Site moderator

    Posted Jun 8, 2009 10:58 am PT

    It is kind of curious this was even at E3.

  • forhekset

    Posted Jun 8, 2009 9:24 am PT

    I was gunna say - isn't this game really old?

  • grendel489

    Posted Jun 8, 2009 8:48 am PT

    Free games... always so much worse than subs. Except for the free part, I suppose. I'd rather pay for better gameplay and content overall than lousy content and pay for items and gear though.

  • pakhair

    Posted Jun 5, 2009 10:28 am PT

    Not Bad...........

  • EchoEcho

    Posted Jun 5, 2009 9:59 am PT

    The market is getting flooded with free-to-play MMOs. Most of them don't do enough to distinguish themselves from the hundreds of other clones that get released -- it's honestly to the point where I just tune a game out the second I hear "free-to-play". There may not be much to go on in this brief preview, but what is there makes it sound (not surprisingly) like just another face in the crowd of mediocrity, doing nothing to set itself apart.

  • ShockG707

    Posted Jun 5, 2009 8:30 am PT

    Yet another MMO no one seems to be interested in.

  • XeradonEX_YU

    Posted Jun 5, 2009 8:28 am PT

    Looks nice..... looks like Continent of nine. I will w8 and give it a try.

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