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Sunday Comics: Dead Island CDC Games, one of Mainland China’s heavy hitters, sent out a press release last week detailing some metrics for their Mainland games, plus info on how Lunia has been doing in the US. Lots and lots of metrics to be had, but I guess that’s why CDC’s Ron Williams talked about how to compare apples to oranges. Williams says that CDC is “excited about the game’s potential to be a top online game in North America this year” and is hoping to leverage Lunia fans for future releases. Pertinent parts of the release after the jump, plus a link to the full release:
CDC Games, which I assume has nothing to do with the Center for Disease Control, has just launched their first MMO in North America under their CDC Games International unit. Lunia is a nifty little manga style action MMO where you take on the role of one of four main characters and fight through story chapters, completely with manga style cutscenes. You can start your own party or have the game automatically set you up with other players as you play through stages, using the arrow keys to move and the A and S buttons to attack. There is no clicking on monsters here…this is an MMO action RPG. Think Champions of Norrath or better yet…Record of the Lodoss War for the Dreamcast. It uses the ever popular free to play, pay for items model so popular in China, so you can just download the game and go. I screwed around a little with it this morning, and I liked what I saw. You can sign up through www.12FootTall.com, so go give it a try – you’ve nothing to lose but your hard drive space.
Lunia戰記 is an “action arcade MMORPG” from China’s CDC Games (developed by Korea’s ALLM Co.) – and they’re bringing the brightly colored, free-to-play model to the US early next year (just what we need!). They describe it as “much like an action arcade game, allowing players to move around using arrow keys rather than a mouse. The game can be played with a console ‘D pad’ style controller which makes the game familiar and easy to use for the millions of Xbox users throughout the U.S.” Does this qualify as ‘new and improved’? It just looks like a colorful, manga-style game to me, but I’m hardly an expert on the many incarnations of Asian free-to-play MMOs. Full press release after the jump.
