Mortal Online

[JobivanHiob]

Developer Star Vault has announced Mortal Online (PC), a fantasy-themed MMO powered by Epic's Unreal Engine 3, and released some concept art and a trailer of the title.

Controlled from a first-person perspective, Mortal focuses on player-versus-player combat and ditches the genre's traditional leveling system. Instead, players will gain new skills by advancing along a skill tree, with some skills learned passively over time and some of requiring experience to earn.

Scheduled for a summer 2009 release, the title has been in development since early 2002, though Star Vault project says it "really took off" in 2005. A beta program is expected as launch approaches, though no further details are available
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52202

in development since 2002...wow :o

[Fraeon Waser Duhni]

They don't have good prospects for success there. It's seems it's both vaporware AND YAFMMO (Yet Another Fantasy MMO).

Sure, they have some awesome graphics and a skill system that resembles the original SWG, but otherwise...nah, no chance it'll take off. Ever.

[Llama Gibbz]

OMG M0RTAL K0MBAT MMO?? wooooohooooo whoooo! :woot:

"Reads thread and article in disappointment." :( :mad:

The art work does look fantastic though.

[JobivanHiob]

I thought the same when first reading the news :D:p

[hanged_man]

move along folks, nothing to see here, it's just another MMO

[Cleric]

^But this one is actually catching my eye. I like the "combat where your skills as a player really matter" line. I stay away from MMO's mostly because of the boring combat, but if this actually plays like a fighting game when you're in combat, I might keep an eye on it.

[Fjallraven]

in development since 2002...wow :o

Ehm, DNF? S.T.A.L.K.E.R? I didn't find that impressive. There are tons of other game that have been in development longer.

I also thought about Mortal Kombat online when I read the title. I couldn't imagine what it would be like. Then I realized that it wasn't going to be anything like that. :(

[big fat lazy]

A MMO that focuses on PVP combat and ditches the genre's traditional leveling system? Wow, that's never been done before!

[Echo Black]

Watch this fail.

[TBZ]

Ehm, DNF?

You're forgetting that DNF isnt a game, it's a life style! :p

[Kien]

The animations are not very good. :<