Rule the world in ArchLord

By Tom Bramwell Published 20 January, 2006

Codies' new Korean MMO.

While the world continues to spaff on Warcraft, Codemasters is not-so-quietly building up its own interest in MMOs, having just signed up another Korean MMORPG in the shape of ArchLord.

ArchLord, developed by NHN Games, in open beta in Korea and due out in Q3, is a fairly typical MMO with a nice big juicy twist: every month, one player gets to be an ArchLord, giving them supreme control of the entire world and big scary powers to mash people up with.

That world is called Kantra, and has been styled with Renderware as you can see from the shots, cos, you can pick engines apart by graphics. Sometimes you don't even see the code; you just see blo[THWACK! THWACK! THWACK! THWACK! THWACK! Sorry about that, readers - Ed]. Audio (what's that ringing in my ears?) has been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, which you can't tell from the screenshots.

ArchLord sees players banding together to uncover ancient relics of the Archons, which lead to this immense power when one person has a lot of them. Along with all the questing, there'll be plenty of room for PvP, with sprawling free battle areas and special places where guilds can go head to head.

It's all set to go live in Q3 2006, and we'll bring you more on ArchLord soon.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Dizzy #1 6 years ago

    Ha yes.. saw a lot of this when I was in Korea last year. People seemed to be pretty excited about it but apparently it is very "Old Skool" :) Grind grind grind... the way Asians like their MMORPGs/JRPGS

  • neon #2 6 years ago

    I don't do PC games, unless they come in the shape of Half Life :)

  • Eldritch #3 6 years ago

    Does the world really need more MMORGs? I mean, considering the fact that people have a certain time budget to spend on recreational activities, and considering furthermore that many people are already spending a large part of their budget on WoW, why bother which yet another MMORPG?

  • Dizzy #4 6 years ago

    >Does the world really need more MMORGs?

    Probably not.. but Korea needs them. They play nothing else ;)

    Who knows... WoW still has many bad parts (end game for example) so the genre still needs to evolve. This can only happen when more games are made.

  • jack_klugman #5 6 years ago

    While the world continues to spaff on Warcraft

    As you can tell from the shots?

  • gaijin #6 6 years ago

    how *does* one 'spaff'? Is it something the young people do, innit?

  • Darkedge #7 6 years ago

    looks like a bad Guild Wars rippoff - why bother as factions is out soon anyway (and doesn't look like arse)

  • Orange #8 6 years ago

    I can't stand the hardcore grinding in mmos.

  • gaijin #9 6 years ago

    yeah, one doesn't want to 'spaff off' to the hardcore grinding, eh?

    (still not sure if he's ever unknowingly 'spaffed off' himself, but refuses to miss opportunity for gratuitous innuendo)

  • GamerAddict #10 6 years ago

    With that other MMO that Codies announced the other day, it seems strange to me why they'd bring out yet another one!! As someone says above, the market is already full of MMO's in the shape of Warcraft with Guild Wars and SW Galaxies having a reasonable share as well.

    This just stinks of Codies trying to jump on yet another bandwagon in sheer desperation to make some much needed money! They tried with footy games and look what happened there!

  • ElephantMonkey #11 6 years ago

    this looks just like WoW (graphics wise)

  • posh_geordie #12 6 years ago

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  • GamerAddict #13 6 years ago

    Fair play having a seperate division to concentrate on the online gaming, its an area that will need a lot of time and effort, but honestly, is there really room for another 3 titles???

    Shouldn't efforts be put into releasing one of them? I obviously don't know the full ins and outs of the deals but surely there'll be a hell of a lot of work involved in maintaining 3 MMO's? That'd take a HUGE department!