Lunia hits North America MMORPG market
Yes, another Asian-made massively multiplayer online role-playing game has entered the world video gaming market. CDC Games, a business unit of the CDC Corporation and pioneer of the free-to-play, pay for merchandise model for online games in China, has just announced the launch in North America of Lunia, an MMORPG based on popular manga-style comic art.
When they say “based on manga,” they mean manga. Take a good look at the opening trailer of Lunia:
Well, if you’re not excited, I don’t know what else will get your loins all fired up.
Oh, you need more information? Right. I’ll let the guys at CDC do all the talking:
Lunia, which was developed by Korea-based ALLM Co. Ltd., is based on the manga-style of Japanese comics which is widely popular throughout the world and is currently a US$200 million industry in the United States, according to Publishers Weekly. To play Lunia, visit the CDC Games portal.
Unlike many other MMORPGs currently on the market, Lunia is played much like an action arcade game, allowing players to move around using a keyboard’s arrow keys rather than a mouse. The game can also be played with a console D-pad style controller which makes the game familiar and easy to use for the millions of Xbox users throughout North America.
In Lunia, various attacks can be launched by pressing combinations of keys rather than clicking on an enemy to attack. In addition, special skills and items can be conveniently controlled with hotkeys. Unlike many other games, Lunia does not restrict its skill hotkeys to the function keys on a keyboard. This allows users to fully customize and adapt the game controls to their personal liking.
In further contrast to many popular MMORPGs, Lunia offers a detailed plotline and story to accompany game play. Battles between players and monsters take place in increasingly challenging stages which are much like chapters in the overall story. In each stage, the players accompany the four main characters: the Knight (Sieg), the Healer (Eir), the Wizard (Dainn), and the Half-Elven Thief (Tia) on their adventures, often being required to complete certain tasks (for example, killing monsters in an area). These accomplishments advance the player through the story and are necessary to complete the stage. Animated cut scenes typically appear just before and after a stage, serving as transitions from chapter to chapter and additional sources of plot information.
Now, are you ready to play?
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