First piece of news, is that there is a new trailer out. Second piece of news is that it will be coming to the west. (Europe, USA)
Blade and Soul is that game, a combination of Dead or Alive, Devil May Cry and Aion, made by their internal development group, ‘Team Bloodlust’. It’s already doing the numbers in South Korea and now it’s set to launch in the West.
The game’s unusual appeal is best illustrated with the starting area. It’s a tutorial like you’ve never seen before. Our tutor is teaching us to run, now that we’re a fully fledged member of Clan Hong. And we do, sprinting like the Flash then bounding in great leaps from one lush island to another. Next we get taught to glide. And at the apex of our bounds, we now drift for miles, seemingly forever. This is Blade & Soul’s ‘Qing Gong’ movement style.
That’s both the best bits from Aion and City of Heroes in the first ten minutes of the game. Who says we’re moving towards an instant gratification society?
The big question, though, is whether and how we’re going to have to pay for it. “We haven’t worked on the business model yet,” says Gollon, “but we’re working with the developers to have flexibility as to what the business model could be.” Which means this could be NCsoft’s first free launch… though there’s no such thing as a free launch.
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