Try out this new turn based MMORPG, its very addictive! Great graphics, battle interface - and more great things, just see for yourself.
Atlantica ONLINE : An Overview
This article is just to educate you about some of the fantastic new features contained in the new MMORPG Atlantica ONLINE. Open Beta was at the 24th of September 2008.
Setting:
When you first enter Atlantica, you are in what is called the "dream world". This is also effectively the tutorial stage. The three angels there introduce you to your surroundings, and tell you of your mission and teleport you to the "real world" after you have completed all their tasks and listened to all their waffle! Your mission in this game, is to find the lost city of Atlantis - as the game's name itself suggests. Your character/s traipse around a graphic rich environment, which displays many historical sites and places. You can travel to Beijing, Calcutta, visit the Pyramids or even associate with Vikings!
Mercenaries:
When you first begin, you create a single character and name it. You can select its appearance, and choose a weapon for it. There are 7 to choose from: Sword, Spear, Axe, Gun, Bow, Cannon and Staff. When you enter the game, you also have the option to add to your "party". You can choose other characters, or "mercenaries" to fight with you. Only basic ones are available to start with. You control these in battle as your own, and your possible party size grows when you level up. The maximum party size you can possibly have, is 9.
There are a range of unique mercenaries also, that you can add to your party by doing quests at certain levels. The first unique available, is the Monk at lvl 18. You can obtain many others, such as Witches, Princesses, Vikings, Inventors, Beast Trainers, Oracles, Lady Knights and Exorcists. Mercenaries can be fired from your team, or upgraded with certain items. There are two classes of mercenary, C and D. (Or if you will, Advanced and Basic).
Each mercenary has one or more special skills that will make your fights more interesting. Gunners have Wild Shot, which will fire high powered bullets at your foe. Shamans have a heal skill, Blessing of Life, and a curse skill, Hex of Darkness.
Your mercenaries also level up, and the max level for each of them is 100.
Basics:
As with any MMO, players can belong to guilds. Unique in Atlantica is the option for guilds to control certain cities. There is a complex economic and government system built in also. You can party with people in dungeons and to help with the wide range of quests available. A player can also invest in advancing a wide range of skills, and once an Artisan of a particular craft, can teach this skill to others. Beginner characters can also be mentored by older characters. The apprentice can gain extra exp and the mentor character will receive 200k when their Apprentice reaches lvl 30.
There are a wide range of scroll items that have different effects, such as the ability to look at other player's teams, expand your inventory, or summon a vortex of wind in battle.
If you wish to rename a mercenary, players can purchase an item called a Blue Quill and rename their entire team. (Normally only your first character would have a name, and the other members of your party would simply be called 'Archer' or 'Spearman'. There are many more amazing features to this game I simply haven't been able to cover yet. Try it out today at http://atlantica.ndoorsgames.com/ !
My Opinion:
Obviously, I think this game has a lot of promise, and you don't see many turn based MMOs around; at least to the standard Atlantica is. One of my favourite features is the Auto-Move, and it automatically moves your character to the location it needs to be for a certain quest. One click and you find yourself running to a mob location, boss room or the NPC you need to talk to. I also love the historical environment in which you find yourself in - with many different countries and continents to explore; how COULD you get bored?
One of the things I find increasingly irritating however, is the way the NPCs talk whenever you open up a chat window again. (I think its just the voice actors!)
I hope you feel compelled to play this fascinating game. Come join me soon!
