The Bandai Korea entertainment company, the NTL game developer, and the Korean CJ Internet service provider
presented more details and footage from the upcoming
Dragonball Online massively multi-player online role-playing game at a press conference in the Seoul Plaza Hotel on February 14. The Japanese
game news website 4Gamer.net has
posted a promotional movie from the conference, and the Korean game news website GameMeca has
posted
that promo and a gameplay video. The gameplay video includes character
customization screens, interaction with non-player characters, and
player-versus-player combat.
The game is jointly developed by Japanese and Korean staffers, and is set 250 years after Akira Toriyama's
original fighting manga. (According to the producers, Toriyama is
supervising the designs of the characters and monsters.) In this Age
1000 era, the world is at peace until mysterious invaders appear.
Despite the timeframe difference, the producers are promising that
players can recreate the feel of the original manga with battles in Dragonball's
signature Tenkaichi BudÅkai tournaments and "time machine quests." In
time machine quests, players can travel back to the time of the
original manga and meet their favorite characters and recreate famous
story arcs. Players can also choose to search for the seven Dragon
Balls that are crucial to the original work's plot.
The producers also promise the system will feature three
species (Human, Namekian, Majin), each with unique attributes and
classes. The gameplay will incorporate transformations as well as
character leveling through occupations. The combat system will have
chained attacks (the ability to set up various combinations of attacks)
and HTB battles (the game's setup which enables players to easily
launch attacks found in the original manga, like Kamehameha and
Genki-dama).
The producers are aiming to start service in Korea in 2008 and in Japan in 2009.
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