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FREE! NAVIGATE Issue 9 | January 2009 FREE FOOTBALL MANAGER LIVE FOR A YEAR + LOADS OF SEGA STUFF! + PREVIEWED Darkfall MMOZine The old school revival Free Magazine For MMO Gamers. Read it, Print it, Send it to your mates is close at hand EXCLUSIVE #1 + REVIEWED Football Manager Live It’s time to really get the EXCLUSIVE #2 season started LEADING THE CHARGE OF THE FREE! + LONG TERM TEST THE MINES OF MORIA ATLANTICA ONLINE BACK TO BASICS Delving deep inside Earth and beyond in this World Of LOTRO’s latest expansion magical combat MMOG Warcraft The Journey Begins CONTROL NAVIGATE |02 Contents WIN! QUICK FINDER DON’T MISS! A GRAPHICS Every game’s just a click away This month’s highlights… CARD! Global Agenda Darkfall Welcome Infinity: The The Chronicles Quest for Earth of Spellborn RUNES Shin Megami Lord of the to Darkfall Tensei Rings Online: When in comes to choosing an online world, OF MAGIC Enter the light Champions Online Mines of Moria most of us are happy to pay monthly charges, Horsing around for free Free Realms Football believing that a more consistent experience is Stargate Worlds Manager Live guaranteed when equal fees apply to all. The Tabula Rasa Atlantica Online misnomer over ‘free-2-play’ games is that they are Tears Saga shoddy in comparison, when the truth is that f2p EVE Online: games still require sustainable levels of investment. Apocrypha The difference is that those who can’t or won’t Runes of Magic pay are still allowed in, while those with money can pay extra and buy in-game luxuries. Which is the fairer tax system is often debated, but the Atlantica FM LIVE PLUS important question is whether the games are A world apart? PLUS! SUBSCRIPTION! good, and increasingly the micro-transaction- fuelled worlds are every bit as enjoyable as those LOTRO: Mines many of us subscribe to. In these times when we have to tighten our belts, maybe it’s just as well. of Moria DON’T MISS ISSUE 10 SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE! Richie Shoemaker, Editor Is it the dog’s Balrogs? [email protected] WARNING! MULTIMEDIA DISABLED! If you are reading this, then you didn’t choose “Play” MEET THE TEAM when Adobe Reader asked you about multimedia when The MMOZine massive were told to go you opened the magazine. forth and multiplay, which they did… Without the multimedia playing, the magazine will look correct, but you will be missing out on all of the extra content built into each issue, like videos, animated screenshots, annotations, quizzes, competitions and more. We recommend you close and re-open the magazine and select “Play” when PAUL PRESLEY DAVE TAYLOR DAN asked about the multimedia to enjoy the magazine as intended. Looked for bargains Is very much hoping HUTCHINSON in the January to find gold in the EVE Online is this transfer window. mines of Moria. man’s MMO of choice. CONTROL NAVIGATE |03 Alpha FIRST Global Agenda LOOK Publisher: N/A Developer: Hi-Rez Studios When two (hundred) tribes go to war… Heritage: None Link: www.global agendagame.com What’s the story? ETA: N/A As the doors close on one MMO sci-fi shooting-heavy enterprise (step forward Tabula Rasa), another even more shooting-heavy sci-fi MMO stands up to take its place. Global Agenda, ostensibly, is a cross PREVIEW between Battlefield 2 (or 2142, if you prefer) and the perennial online FEEDBACK! team combat fave Tribes 2. All the persistent character growth of Click here to the former mixed with the hardcore gun-toting, jetpack-wearing, tell us what adrenaline-pumping action of the latter. All dished up with the visual you think of The Hello Kitty line of finery that comes from the Unreal Engine 3. Global Agenda ninja blades lives on into the near future at least. What do we know? “Ohh my head. What was A well-edited – if somewhat cheesy – gameplay I drinking last night?” video was doing the rounds at a public charity “Global Agenda is event, and since then we’ve found out that the a cross between gameplay consists of a real-world battleground, in Battlefield 2 and team which player-run ‘agencies’ face off against each other for control over key resource points has combat fave, Tribes 2” come on by jetpack-assisted leaps and bounds. A heady mixture of gunplay, melee combat and stealthy infiltration seems to be the order of the day, with multiple classes ensuring a need for teamwork among players. Agencies have to capture and defend technology resources to further their abilities, weapons and global power, although how this ties into a persistent, real-time world with (potentially) thousands of other player groups isn’t clear. When do we get more? It’s already been under development for two years, and there were promises of a closed beta starting up towards the end of 2008, although that particular annus came and went with nary a whiff. “Hot, hot, hot, hot, Being a self-funded developer does mean that there’s no rush, which hot, hot, hot...” bodes well for quality control at least. CONTROL WHICH SIDE WILL YOU CHOOSE? EXPERIENCE BOTH SIDES OF THE MASK AT Now Available for Mac EU.CITYOFHEROES.COM © 2004-2009 NCsoft Europe Ltd. All Rights Reserved. NCsoft, the interlocking NC Logo, City of Heroes, City of Villains and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCsoft Corporation.Cryptic Studios is a trademark of Cryptic Studios, Inc. All other registered trademarks or trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTROL NAVIGATE |05 Alpha Front… no, back! No, FIRST definitely the front… Infinity: The LOOK Publisher: N/A Developer: Flavien Brebion Quest for Earth Heritage: None Link: www.infinity- One man creates the entire galaxy… universe.com/Infinity ETA: N/A What’s the story? We’ve had space-based MMOs before, and after a lengthy period of inactivity, the genre is about to welcome a couple of others to the PREVIEW fray, JumpGate Evolution and Star Trek Online to name but two. The FEEDBACK! main difference between all these other space-faring titles and Infinity Click here to however? Simple, Infinity’s goal of recreating our solar system, all 200 tell us what billion stars, planets and moons of it, is being handled by just one man. you think of Infinity: The What do we know? Quest for Earth This ‘Milky Way Kid’ is one Flavien Brebion, and he’s a programming genius. The galaxy of stars is mostly being created by procedural “Infinity’s goal of generation techniques, albeit ones that marry up with the star systems recreating all 200 created by each player’s clients, while many of the game’s 3D models billion stars, moons and have come via well-wishers with 3D CAD developing nous. Gameplay details are still rather thin on the ground at this stage, planets in our solar although it is a stated fact that players aren’t limited to zipping system is being handled about space lanes but rather can travel seamlessly from orbit down by just one man” to the surface of every planet in the game. Brebion also boasts of complete freedom to go from small shuttle piloting to controlling vast empires, and a twitch-based real-time combat system that’s loosely seen the light of day already via a standalone combat ‘prototype’ game that can be downloaded right now. When do we get more? Rumours of the game being ‘vapourware’ were recently refuted by Brebion in an open letter on his website, although he freely admits to progress being slow due to the vastness of the project and his limitations of only Well, it doesn’t look having two arms. That said, Brebion is hoping for an very friendly to us. early alpha to go live sometime later this year. CONTROL NAVIGATE |06 Alpha Free Realms Developer: SOE | ETA: Spring Stargate Worlds New MMOs and content Developer: Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment | ETA: TBA SOE’s family-friendly MMO updates to mark on continues to impress in beta, but Worrying news over at Stargate Command, away from the screen, kids of all as rumours of unpaid employees and your calendar with a ages will be able to enjoy the Free frantic scrabbling around for investment BIG RED PEN! Realms trading card game, courtesy capital leak out into the general populace. of SOE Denver, the folks behind The official word from the developer is that UP work continues apace, while further Legends of Norrath and the Star 7 funding opportunities are sought out. A Wars Galaxies card game. Shin Megami Tensei healthy community site certainly raises Developer: Aeria Games | ETA: 2009 hopes, but we Now entering open beta is the Champions Online wait with English language version of popular Developer: Cryptic Studios | ETA: April baited Japanese demon breeding and Holy change of publisher, non-trademark breath on shopping-’em-up console role-player, infringing Bat-themed man! Cryptic’s follow-up this one Shin Megami Tensei. Post-apocalyptic to the brilliant City of Heroes has moved houses for now. Tokyo is the setting for the strategy- from Take 2 to the newly invigorated Atari, heavy fun, as players help with the along with Cryptic itself, furthering rumours construction of a tower block while along the way that many of Atari’s IPs may be fusing captured demons together to lending themselves towards MMO goodness Tabula Rasa keep others at bay. further down the line. Developer: Destination Games | ETA: February 2009 While General Sir Lord Rear Admiral The Agency Cosmonaut British (aka Richard Garriott) adjusts to life back on terra firma after his EVE Online: sojourn into deep space, and ponders a SUMMER move back into fantasy online game Apocrypha Champions Developer: CCP | ETA: March development, his last venture, Tabula Rasa, Online sees out its remaining days on virtual Earth Fresh on the heels of setting by going completely free-to-play until the SUMMER yet another concurrent user servers shut at the end of February.
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