Blade & Soul is an oriental martial-arts massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in development by NCsoft.

Developer: NCsoft
Publisher: NCsoft
Designer: Hyung-tae Kim
Engine: Unreal Engine 3
Platform: Windows
Release date: TBA
Genre: MMORPG
Mode: Multiplayer

History
Weeks before NCmedia day, NCsoft announced a new game only known for its codename Project [M]. For the next two weeks, a teaser website was updated revealing more information about the project.
On July 31 2008, during the yearly NCmedia day, NCsoft announced Blade & Soul. The game has been in development for 2 years and a close beta test is projected to start in Q4 of 2009.

Main Characteristics:

Oriental Martial Arts Action:
It is full of symbolic and well known Oriental martial art elements such as ‘Energy Ball’, ‘Inner Energy’, ‘Swift jump,’ etc.
The important themes of Oriental martial art fantasies such as justice and chivalry are richly spread throughout the game by means of martial art.

Oriental-features:
Breaking away from the traditional medieval fantasy world, it takes an Oriental mysticism as the background environment.
The basic world-view is based on the Korean myth ‘Song of Genesis,’ and the factions within the game are also modeled after Korean mythological characters

Constantly Changing Environment:
Within ‘Blade&Soul,’ many conditions change according to the play of the gamer, on the other hand, the environment creates diverse situations for the gamers. This system will provide the gamers with a new experience that has not been witnessed until now.

Powerful Action:
The main motto of battles within ‘Blade&Soul’ is ‘super powerful action’ that can distinguish itself from existing games.
Players can knock back opponents and use diverse fancy skills according to the condition the gamers are posed in.
The game aspires to provide battles that are enjoyable even by just watching them.
Everyone can enjoy the battles of ‘Blade&Soul’ through simple control.

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Last updated 258 days ago by Kjell-Magnus Vike