With its
Unreal-powered Western animation, it's easy and natural to draw comparisons between Q2 2008's
The Chronicles of Spellborn and other timeless art styles from places like
Fable and
World of Warcraft.
TCoS, as a mini-celebration of
entering final beta-testing, released a new trailer showing off the starting zone located on the Parliament Shard, Hawk's Landing, just outside the city of Hawksmouth. Developers Spellborn rate the beta testing as "satisfactory" thus far, and disclose plans for expanding the beta soon. This video is rudimentary to be sure, but it shows off a healthy sprinkling of anorexic character models, an interesting-but-how-does-it-really-work toolbar that logrolls back and forth during combat, as well as the run around/jump around PvE. Sure,
WoW has a Dr. Evil amount of subscribers, and
The Lord of the Rings Online has got Western fantasy by the balls, but this one might be worth a look-see if you want to explore something that hasn't been explored nearly 10 million times before
you showed up.
.
