Blade and Soul: New Video Features The Classes and Races

NCsoft's next generation Martial Arts MMORPG Blade and Soul released a surprising 11-minute gameplay video today at Gstar 2009. The video begins with the chase between 'Lyn' race and 'Kun' race. Subsequently, four classes including Blade Master, Kung-Fu Master, Force Master, Destroyer and four races including Jin, Gon, Kun, LYN debut. They showcase their skills and weapons through the whole video.




Blade & Soul is under development by Lineage II development team, and the characters in this oriental style MMORPG are designed by the well-known illustrator HyungTae Kim. It is set in an oriental fantasy world and will use Unreal Engine 3. With a focus on oriental-style martial arts, Blade & Soul combines various familiar subjects such as breathing exercises (Qigong), inner power (Neigong) training and fly skills (Qinggong). It also offers diversified scenes which change during game play. And what's more, the game presents actions to the greatest extent, bringing players an awesome fighting feel.


Class









Race


Jin


Gon


Kun


Lyn


Blade & Soul received a significant amount of hype for a game that was never announced for the western release. One look at the trailer and it is not difficult to see why. The game has gorgeous graphics and action packed gameplay. The gameplay in Blade & soul seems to be twitch based and much more action packed than in traditional MMORPGs. Using martial arts moves such as wall crawl doesn't hurt its appeal either.

It's still up in the air if Blade & Soul will received a western release. The game has only been announced a few months ago and is still in development. I don't think the game was developed with a western audience in mind as the theme of the game is clearly Asian culture. Still, perhaps Blade & Soul will receive a western release considering how much hype there already is for the title. Fingers crossed!

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