NCsoft is planning to introduce its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Aion to domestic gamers at GStar 2006. Aion attracted much acclaim and praise from the press at home and abroad at E3, the world's biggest game exhibition held last May.
At GStar 2006, NCsoft will introduce a demonstration version of Aion, The Tower of Eternity. NCsoft game developers have prepared for the pilot test of Aion at their own studio in Korea. NCsoft has succeeded in popularizing the online game and upgrading games to be better than movies through Lineage, which successfully combined a game and the Internet, and Lineage 2, which set a milestone for a movie-like game like movie.
Under the NCsoft's development philosophy, "Game is Next Cinema," Aion has set the next task to be challenged by MMORPGs as interaction. It is a core keyword of online games that other cultural genres cannot achieve.
Aion will introduce new cultural content worlds with which players can positively make their own stories. Aion, a completion-type MMORPG that emphasizes interaction, consists of comprehensive conflict structures, called the Heavens, Devildom and Dragon World. Meanwhile, players will be able to experience active exchanges with Aion's world based on strategic battles that they have never experienced before.
All activities of players become the strength to change the world and the changed world affects the players again. Such a new type of interaction will help players experience the vision of the next cinema that makes its own stories.
Aion's world implements interaction that has a comprehensive conflict structure of man to environment and man to man. Through the comprehensive conflict structure, called the PvPvE, Aion players can actively interchange, grow and develop with the environment. They can also experience numerous feelings through various relations of man to man, called the flower of online games.
In the Aion world, players must have ability beyond simple and repeated battles through fights with various monsters. They must have a sense of connection and unflinching team spirit. They will be also able to experience dynamic PvP at the "Abyss," the route connecting the two antagonistic camps.
The players' experience accumulated through such conflicts is to be connected with the fight against the dragon tribe that threatens the existence of the overall world.
Accordingly, players can experience rapidly changing play styles. Through such an organic connection between PvP and PvE, Aion is suggesting a completion type of the comprehensive conflict structure by supplementing shortcomings possessed by individual systems and generating synergy effects of merits.
Aion focuses on the fundamental fun of the RPG. It aims at helping players feel fun and a sense of achievement at every moment in the course of growing characters and adventuring in the world. "To this end, NCsoft rechecked basic content, including battles, items, skills and level designs, and has tried to deliver only fun to Aion players," said a spokesman of the company. Aion is designed to implement the top-level 3D graphics that maximize the reality of imagination. Its biggest purpose is to show the attractive fantasy world to players in a realistic image.
NCsoft will make sincere efforts to produce Aion's unique characteristics by refraining from dramatic expression trends of games recently introduced and instead seeking a new realistic dramatic version.
Aion is the work dealing with tribes pursuing different goals in a world and unknown creatures countering them. The Aion's world is divided into the two camps . the heavens and the devildom. They form the two sides for players with the Tower of Eternity, Aion, at the center. In addition, there is a dragon world that antagonizes both the heavens and the devildom.
In the meantime, ATrix developed by Galaxy Gate and published by NCsoft is a 3D casual online action game targeted at children aged between 10 and 15. Gamers can enjoy fully 3D manufactured cinematic slash fighting actions. At GStar 2006, NCsoft will introduce a demo version of ATrix and carry out the Open Beta Test (OBT) for the game within this year, the spokesman said.
ATrix boasts of such merits as movie camera-like presentation, background events that destroy the background and large-scale fights in which a maximum of 32 users can participate simultaneously.
The biggest characteristics of ATrix are adventurous amusement to solve given objectives one by one and large-scale wars with other gamers.
Meanwhile, SP JAM is a casual snowboard racing game that helps gamers feel a tense atmosphere through racy speed, a dizzy sense of gravity and luxurious tricks. Gamers also can express their own style through stylish dresses and various background music tracks.
At GStar 2006, NCsoft will exhibit the game play video of ATrix and carry out the OBT for the game during this winter vacation period.
NCsoft, which aims at providing domestic gamers with fresh amusement through products-oriented exhibition, designed its 40 booths at GStar 2006 in such a way as to help gamers concentrate on games by removing factors other than games from the design.
The concept of NCsoft booths is a modern, polished art gallery. In the booths, gamers are able to virtually experience the online world.
NCsoft has provided gamers with various popular games, including Lineage, Lineage II, City of Heros, Guild Wars, Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa through its online presence, PlayNC. NCsoft participated in the ASEM 2006 held in Helsinki, Finland on September 10 and 11 with its two most popular games, Guild Wars and Lineage II.
"Ahead of the world market debut of Nightfall, the third chapter of Guild Wars, NCsoft held the first closed test at home at the end of July," a spokesman said.
Guild Wars Nightfall, the next game in the award-winning and critically acclaimed Guild Wars series, has become available in stores worldwide last month.
In the third Guild Wars chapter, players must fight to hold back the night as a mad ruler attempts to free an outcast god and bring darkness to the continent of Elona.
However, players will not fight alone. Guild Wars Nightfall introduces new customizable Heroes who level up, follow player instructions in combat, and use skills and equipment of the player's choosing.
These Heroes will follow the player through savage coasts, ancient monuments, and poisonous deserts during an epic story that spans 20 missions and hundreds of quests.
For the ultimate one-on-one challenge, competitive players can choose to enter the new Hero versus Hero Battles, where they group with a custom team of Heroes and fight against other players from around the world.
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