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Mmozine Issue 5 FREE! NAVIGATE Issue 5 | Summer 2008 MMOZine WIN! NVIDIA 8600 GTS Free Magazine For MMO Gamers. Read it, Print it, Send it to your mates EVE Online Giveaway Play Empyrean Age with this EVE ONLINE superb GeForce 8600 GTS! + GAMETIME & GOODIES Empyrean Age Art book, USB drives, mouse EMPYREAN AGE mats, baseball cap, plus three WOW: WRATH OF 50-day gametime cards! THE BEST MMO EXPANSION EVER MADE! THE LICH KING New details at last! + EVERQUEST II COMPO! Rise of Kunark Win full copies of the game, including every expansion HUGE REVIEW! LEGENDS OF NORRATH pack ever released! INTERVIEW! JEFFREY STEEFEL ON EverQuest starts AGE OF CONAN THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE playing at cards! A brutal cut above the rest? + the Mines of Moria! • SECRET WORLD • MORTAL ONLINE • EARTHRISE PLUS! LOTRO: BOOK 13 • WOW 2.4.2 CONTROL NAVIGATE |02 Contents QUICK FINDER DON’T MISS! Every game’s just a click away This month’s highlights... WIN! EVE GOODS & Secret World World of Warcraft: Welcome GAME TIME Mortal Online Wrath of the Wrath of Warhammer Lich King Online: Age of Lord of the to the Lich King Reckoning Rings Online Age of Conan from MMO masters Funcom New details unveiled Earthrise Age of Conan: represents the first serious challenger to the Mythos Hyborian mighty World of Warcraft for quite some time. Adventures APB EverQuest II: It’s unlikely to ever achieve the same mass-market Lord of Football success as WoW, thanks to its mature content, but Rise of Kunark the Rings Superstars Legends of with over 1 million units shipped already, there’s The Chronicles Norrath definitely a hole in the market for an adult- EVE ONLINE: Online: of Spellborn themed MMO that the bulky Conan has had no EMPYREAN AGE Book 13 EVE Online: trouble wedging itself into. You’ll find the rippling The most impressive free expansion we’ve Be lucky! Empyrean Age review and toned tutorial in this issue. The other ever seen reveals new factional warfare! big news this month is Empyrean Age, the vast WIN A STUNNING NEW new expansion for EVE Online, representing not PLUS! GRAPHICS CARD NOW! only a rare new spatial expansion, but the introduction of factional warfare with a four-way Age of Conan: war that will draw the entire galaxy into exciting Hyborian Age DON’T MISS ISSUE 6 SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE! PvP combat. Enjoy the issue. Steve Brown, Editor Massive review of [email protected] the huge new MMO! 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. PLUS! AGE OF CONAN We recommend you close and re-open the magazine and select “Play” when STEVE BROWN IAN MORRIS STEVE HILL asked about the multimedia to enjoy the magazine as intended. Found that LOTRO Went on a couple of Went to Oslo in Empyrean Age TUTORIAL Book 13 wasn’t quests that seemed search of greased- unlucky at all. to go on forever. up muscle men. Your guide to the war CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: NAVIGATE |04 Alpha FIRST The Secret LOOK Publisher: TBA Developer: Funcom Heritage: Anarchy World Online, Age of Conan From Age of Conan to a modern Link: www.darkdays arecoming.com conspiracy tale… ETA: 2009 What’s the story? PREVIEW As its name suggests, the next MMO from Funcom, developer of FEEDBACK! Age of Conan (see review and tutorial in this issue), is shrouded in Click here to secrecy. What we do know is that it will be set here on Earth during tell us what you contemporary times, but you will be battling dark cabals and Lovecraftian monsters from the think of The A London pub is a Secret World refreshing venue. deepest recesses of the mythological past. What do we know? “You will be battling Funcom’s Producer and Director of The Secret dark cabals and World tells us that, “We started envisioning this A mythological contemporary online world more than ten years Lovecraftian monsters” behemoth is a lurking horror in ruined NYC. ago, and as the years passed the ideas grew and improved. We always wanted a different kind of online world, something scary and contemporary, something deeper and closer to our reality. Our goal now is to create a detailed world where players feel empowered and part of something Shanghai is the big, something mystical and epic.” third location we’ve identified so far. When do we get more? We’ll have more details of the combat system soon, but if you visit the game’s official site then you can get involved in a clue-gathering game now. Anything else to declare? The premise of a supernatural world beyond our own, where a knowlegeable few fight the powers of darkness has been inspired in part by modern Japanese horror, The Ring, Funcom has revealed. CONTROL NAVIGATE |05 Alpha FIRST Mortal LOOK Publisher: TBA Developer: Star Vault Heritage: First game Online Link: www.mortal The PvP-focused fantasy MMO where you online.com ETA: Summer 2009 can fight in a first-person perspective What’s the story? PREVIEW It’s all about combat in this purist fantasy game, with absolutely no FEEDBACK! levelling up and a real sandbox world simply defined by the actions Click here to of the players. It’s a world of warriors and fortresses, badlands and tell us what cavernous dungeons, where dragons await the brave and foolhardy. you think of “It’s all about You can build houses, We bet that needs Mortal Online combat in this purist but you’ll need a guild to to be walked a lot. construct a castle. What do we know? fantasy game” In many ways this appears to be the fantasy partner to the sci-fi of EVE Online. It certainly carries a flame for the same ideals of true player freedom, less hand-holding and unique community experiences that don’t repeat. It also looks the part, using stunning Unreal technology to great effect. While it is combat-focused, there are no artificial PvP zones, and conflict can be found anywhere and everywhere. The combat supports a first-person mode, is realtime and more based on There will be vast player skill than abstract stats, which will make a treasures to seek, but refreshing change. There will also be PvE play and they’ll need epic quests. a guild system. When do we get more? We’re hoping to secure an interview with the development team for our next issue. Anything else to declare? It looks like there will be mounts in Mortal Online, great horned Warg-like beasts appearing in the teaser video available from the official site. CONTROL NAVIGATE |06 Alpha Earthrise Developer: Masthead | ETA: 2009 Warhammer Online New MMOs and content Publisher : EA | ETA: Autumn The latest details to emerge updates to mark on concerning this sci-fi combat MMO It slipped from summer to autumn, but this concern the accurate physics now is still one of the most eagerly anticipated your calendar with a being put into the game, affecting MMOs of 2008. New info concerning the BIG RED PEN! gravity, wind, the momentum of magical land of Saphery has been getting player mounts and even the physics us even more excited, with the promise of UP countless artifacts and items of power of sound in different environments 7 hidden there, which will be a powerful for incredible realism. Champions Online magnet to the armies of the Dark Elves. Developer: Cryptic | ETA: Spring 2009 The latest superhero to be added to the Mythos ranks of this comicbook MMO from the Developer: Flagship | ETA: Summer makers of City of Heroes is named Hoping for massive success in the more casual Justiciar. He’s Canadian, with ice-themed market, this free to download and free to play abilities resulting from an accident that Diablo-style MMORPG will fund itself via micro- left him with limbs cybernetically transactions in the game world. Although a reconstructed by evil genius Cyberlord more accessible MMO, Mythos still offers plenty on behalf of Justiciar’s father, who he of depth, with a complex skillset and plenty of later murdered before dying himself in quests and dungeons to keep newcomers and The Chronicles a raid by the Northern Guard! experienced gamers happy. 2009 of Spellborn Developer: Spellborn International | ETA: Autumn Champions Online A beautiful Unreal-powered fantasy MMO, APB this world features a wonderful range of WINTER Developer: Realtime Worlds | ETA: 2009 character customisation options, along with a region called The Midlands on the World of Warcraft: The developer of this open- Parliament Shard. We can’t wait to recreate Wrath of the Lich King world cops ’n’ robbers MMO the cast and set of 80’s soap opera used to be part of Rockstar AUTUMN Crossroads. We just hope a Benny hat will Games – developer of the Football be one of the custom items available. Warhammer Online: similarly themed GTA franchise. Recent rumours suggest that Superstars Age of Reckoning Publisher: CyberSports | ETA: Late 2008 SUMMER Realtime Worlds may have bought the distribution rights You’ll live in a football-mad to APB in the hope that they world and compete in 3, 5, 7 would benefit more should and 11-a-side matches at every Requiem: level of play, management and Bloodymare Rockstar want to partner with ON them to turn APB into a GTA competition.
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