By John Walker on March 4th, 2011 at 12:48 pm.
If a game that’s late has “slipped”, then what do you call a game that’s early? Unlikely. But bucking the trend is MMO Forsaken World, from Perfect World Entertainment. Originally due to be released on the 23rd March, it’s now appearing two weeks early on the 9th. It seems the beta went well. It’s a free-to-play-er, and you can find out all about it here. Have you been in the beta? Let us know what you think.
04/03/2011 at 12:52 Diziet Sma says:
I completely agree with the tooltip text for the screenshot. Just what exactly is going on? I thought it was a second life screenshot for a second.
04/03/2011 at 14:27 Temple to Tei says:
I blame Silver.
So Mercurial.
04/03/2011 at 13:05 pakoito says:
What does this grindfest have that other grindfest don’t?
04/03/2011 at 13:24 Hodag says:
It’s a ‘unicorns puking rainbows’ grindfest?
05/03/2011 at 13:39 Negativeland says:
It has, uh… vampires?
FFSMS, the graphics look like a bus-full of teletubbies just shat their guts out…
04/03/2011 at 13:26 RaytraceRat says:
is there a goat looking at some girl in chain-mail bikini on the screenshot ?
04/03/2011 at 13:32 HeroJez says:
It’s high time people started putting Robots in MMOs. I’m sick of humans, dwarves and rats.
04/03/2011 at 14:37 RaytraceRat says:
Rats? I would love a MMORPG with playable rat race.
04/03/2011 at 15:47 Malawi Frontier Guard says:
@RaytraceRat
Everquest 2 has rats.
04/03/2011 at 16:38 Odeon says:
A few MMOs with robots that I can think of (having played them):
Star Wars Galaxies – obviously there’s bots in it
Entropia Universe – a “free-to-play” MMO that’ll cost you an arm and a leg (no subscription fee, it’s just expensive to actually do anything in the game because you have to “deposit” real money to get in-game money – it’s and RCE, Real Cash Economy). It’s got tons of different robots, large and small, to hunt as you like.
AfterWorld (www.afterworld.ru) – a “free-to-play” MMO that’ll cost you a little bit to play and enjoy (also an RCE) which has a lot of large and small robots to hunt too. It’s currently in “alpha” testing, but I put that in quotes because they are skipping formal beta testing and going live in May.
All three are futuristic (except for SWG, which is technically from “a long time ago”) and I had a lot of fun in SWG, a little fun in EU, and I’m still having plenty of fun in AW every day. If you’re looking for “something completely different” and not your usual anime, fantasy, kiddie cartoon MMO, try out AfterWorld. You can only play as a human (it’s post-apocalyptic Earth) and there are no races, just skills (with no hobbling restrictions of any kind), items, and PvP.
04/03/2011 at 18:54 ScubaMonster says:
Did WAR ever add Skaven? I seem to recall something being mentioned about that but I don’t really know.
04/03/2011 at 18:55 ScubaMonster says:
In some of the super hero games you can play as robotic characters. but. not sure if that really qualifies as robots.
04/03/2011 at 17:45 moondog548 says:
Yeah…. that looks like a ‘shoop screenshot for a parody article. :o
04/03/2011 at 23:39 MountainShouter says:
It’s a grind anyways.
And have you SEEN the movement animations in that game? It’s a stark reminder as to why I hate F2Ps.
06/03/2011 at 14:21 bastronaut says:
How many times can you recycle the same stuff without mixing in something really new? I can’t even read The Lord of the Rings anymore, it’s permeated the gaming world so completely in such degenerate form. This thing even borrows from the Silmarillion. (LOTR was itself derivative, but it had Ents and Hobbits and, you know, a moral centre.)
06/03/2011 at 22:57 porps says:
oh joy to the world! another perfect world mmo… sigh