We recently received this press release from NDOORS Interactive, related to their Free to Play MMO Strategy game, Atlantica Online. It received a Golden Plume award for Best Online Game at this year's ChinaJoy, which was recently held. What's most impressive is that the game isn't even released in China yet, and it's already winning awards there.
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SEGUNDO, Calif. – Nov. 18, 2008 – Atlantica Online,
the
new strategic turn-based MMORPG, won a Golden Plume Award for Best Foreign
Online Game. The prestigious prize was bestowed upon the best games in
China by the China Digital
Entertainment Expo and Conference (ChinaJoy) on Nov. 4 in Beijing.
Atlantica’s
victory comes as the game is preparing to enter beta testing in
China. Atlantica developer NDOORS
Inc. signed a publishing deal with Chinese gaming leader The9, which publishes
World of Warcraft in China, last April. Beta on the
Chinese edition of Atlantica is expected to begin in early
2009.
“Atlantica
is The9’s most anticipated title,” said Jun Zhu, CEO, The9. “The title has a
great premise with its combination of reality and fantasy and the legend of
Atlantis. Atlantica will make a big impact in China’s online
game market, especially with its exciting turn-based battle
system.”
Atlantica
has already made an impression on the Chinese, who are tapping into the
Atlantica action on the Korea- and U.S.-based game
servers.
“It’s
an honor to be awarded the prestigious Golden Plume, especially considering
Atlantica has yet to launch in China,” said Cho Seong Won, CEO, NDOORS Inc.,
which is based in South
Korea. “We can’t wait to finish the
localization process and prepare new content for gamers in China. We plan
on living up to the expectations, which have just been set higher by this
honor.”
Atlantica
has been winning other accolades in addition to the Golden Plume. In
Japan, where it is being
published by Nexon Japan and
is in open beta, Atlantica has hit number one in a most popular games list at
4gamer.net, one of Japan’s most influential webzines.
In
North America, Atlantica has reached number
one
on MMORPG.com’s “Most Popular” list and has been the top free-to-play game for
three straight months at TenTonHammer.com.
With
its licensing deal with Taiwan’s leading publisher Gamania,
Atlantica will be reaching four of the major gaming markets in the
world.
Atlantica
Online is a strategic, turn-based RPG that merges traditional RPG gameplay and
heavy strategic gameplay elements with a mercenary and nation management system.
The turn-based combat gives players the chance to control a party of up to nine
characters. In the mercenary system, players can recruit and develop mercenaries
of different classes for their combat squad. The nation management system allows
guilds to plan the conquest of cities and even whole
nations.
About NDOORS
Interactive
NDOORS Interactive is the
U.S. subsidiary of Korea-based NDOORS
Corp., which develops and publishes online games. NDOORS’ other popular online
games include the political and economic MMORPG ‘Luminary: Rise of the Goonzu’
and the time traveling strategic RPG ‘Time N Tales.’ More information is
available at http://www.ndoors.com/eng.
Have you played Atlantica yet? If so, what are your thoughts? A number of us here at Curse have, and we've enjoyed it quite a bit. It definitely lends a new feel to the MMO genre, and it being Free to Play is an absolute plus, in my book.
