Eligium is a new free mmorpg from Frogster that is currently in open beta. The online game is still new and in development and much featureslike character customization are still unavailable.
This game has 4 races(Humans, Elves, Viridis or Pandas) with 4 respective classes (Warrior, Hunter, Druid, Mage or Fighter) and have some unique features like skills leveling up for times of usage instead of your character level.
Aion it's a free mmorpg from NCSOFT and he will become free to play at the end of February. After the other NCSOFT game , Lineage II, become free to play a few months ago, the Aion playerswere already waiting for this day.
The news was published in their official website will the following text:
Account transfer update / 3.0 is coming to Europe
The long waiting time is finally coming to an end: AION goes free-to-play on the 28th of February! The monthly subscription fees will become a thing of the past and your adventures as a Daeva will not cost you a penny anymore! Download the new client now to charge into Atreia immediately on the 28th of February. Get it now by visiting our download section or following this link.
The free-to-play switch-over is an important milestone in AION'S history and we're already preparing for the next one: in spring 2012, AION Europe will receive the update 3.0. Get ready for the new housing system, mounts and lots more!
You are an AION player and have prepaid subscription fees that continue past 27th of February? If so, we will transfer your remaining game days into premium currency as compensation.
For every day paid for in advance, you will receive six AION Coins in your account. If, for example, you paid your subscription up to the 3rd of March, you have five remaining game days. This means you will receive 30 AION Coins, which you can spend to your heart's content in our new shop.
So that we can give you your AION Coins, please give us permission to transfer your current account to the Gameforge servers by the 27th of February at 3 pm (GMT +1). To do so, log into your NCsoft master account and follow the instructions. We'll take care of the rest!
Your AION Coins will be credited to your game account when the account is moved and will be available to you once you log in to the free-to-play version for the first time. Players with a transferred NC account will also receive Veteran status with enhanced functions. Find out more info here.
Webzen is giving free high level character in their 3 mmorpgs (MU Online, Archlord and S.U.N Online). This giveaway will stay opened from February 15 to March 14 of 2012. Besides the high level character, they give you some gear, items and cash just by creating the character.
You can also win more stuff by doing missions and winning daily rewards.
MU Online:
Benefits: - Level 220 from start - Fully geared with free +9 excellent items - Free cash items for all
Archlord:
Benefits:
- Level 60 from start - Fully geared with realm armors & unique weapon - Free unique shuta ring & karkaen necklace
S.U.N. Online:
Benefits: - Level 90 from start - Fully geared with incomplete elite items - Supportive gifts including fre cash items - Additional gifts from the new level up box - Abundant experiences" bonus EXP 250%
It's true the volume 5 update to Allods Online goes live this February according to the news on their forum:
"Allods Online Volume 5: Game of Gods, is set to launch in February 2012, marking two years since gPotato.eu’s first open beta test. Over those 24 months, Allods Online has gone from strength to strength, with each volume adding more and more content while also polishing and balancing the AAA MMORPG according to community feedback, honing Allods Online into one of the most expansive and comprehensive MMORPGs in the world. With the February expansion Allods Online will add even more dynamic content, a whole new archetype and many other great features!"
And this new volume will brings lots of new features, some of them are:
"A list of the most prominent Volume 5 features is as follows:
•All new archetype - the Bard.
•Level cap increase to level 51.
•New Raid, featuring all new bosses with epic and strategic battles.
•New Battleground system, comprising a 12-a-side PvP area that players can enter from level 23 and above. Players can fight against their own or opposing faction.
•At least 13 all new astral allods in an all new 4th layer of Astral space.
•Astral ship physics will be revamped to make astral space PvE and PvP battles even more dynamic and exciting.
•Great Rank, which is an epic quest for the top players on each server to distinguish themselves from all other players. The best-of-the-best will earn a chance to gain an extra skill point, an extra ruby, and a second slot for a customised class build with a duel spec •Hundreds of new quests exploring the nature of the gods of Sarnaut, as well as the creation and destruction of the Allods Online universe.
•Social Network integration, allowing players to post screenshots of their adventures without leaving the game."
Since lately i've been talking a lot about Lineage 2 GoD i leave here a starter guide, that i found on youtube, for all the new players of Lineage 2 GoD.
Lineage 2 it's a very popular mmorpg that recently become free to play in is most recent update "Goddess of Destruction". Lineage 2 GoD can be played for free in two different places:
- Official Lineage 2 by NCSoft
- 4Game by Innova Systems
Innova Systems has European and Russian servers and NCSoft has American and also European servers and i personaly recommend playing in the official NCSoft servers.
In the official NCSoft servers all the features work like Mentor System (that doesn't work so far on 4Game) and you are allowed to make dualbox (that is paid so far on 4Game). Also in NCSoft server you can use the Path to Awakening System that give you rewards (Weapons, Armor, Jewels and Shots) from lvl 1 to lvl 76 tou help you in your gameplay experience.
So that's it for now i will make soon a beginner's guide with character creation and a lvl 0 to lvl 20 walkthrough.
Kabod Online is a free to play 3D mmorpg. This game has a good gameplay but has only 3 classes (Knight, Mage and Rogue) and you can't do much customizations on your character. But it has some cool features like an Auto Hunting System (you can let your character hunting by him self) and the fact that your equipments get wasted until they disapear and you get naked :D.
It's true, on of the greatest mmorpg of all time will now be free to play too. Lineage II Goddess of Destruction will be free too play after 30 of November.
Brawl Busters is a 3D mmo fighting game with a gameplay/graphics very simular to the shooter team fortress 2. The graphics are very good and the gameplay it's also not bad with all the cool special abilities from each characters.
The game has some gamemodes like team deathmatch (PvP), Zombie Defence (PvE) and others...
In terms of classes you can choose from five options:
Slugger - Basebal player - Ranged Dps
Firefighter - Raged Dps / Tank
Rocker - Melee Dps
Boxer - Heavy Puncher - Melee Dps
Blitzer - Meele Dps
You can also customize the look of you character in several ways.
CrimeCraft it's a free to play mmo shooter with a 3rd person view.
The game has a large city as game world where you can move around to meet people and accept missions.
CrimeCraft uses the Unreal 3 engine and has several game modes with both PvP and PvE styles. In the game modes you find the usual team vs team, capture the flag, capture points, free for all but you also find game modes of stealing money and defend points agains waves of AI bots.
I really recomend this games to all mmo shooter fans.
Forsaken World it's a free to play mmorpg from Perfect World Entertainment. The game it's quite new, launched around March of 2011 but already count with a huge community.
The graphics in this game along with the huge variety of cenarios in the map, his PvP system and the awesome gameplay make him one of the best free to play mmorpg around.
You have five races (Stoneman, Elf, Dwarf, Human, Kindred) and a total of 8 classes to play:
- Warrior
- Protector (Tank)
- Assassin
- Marksman (Ranged DPS)
- Mage
- Priest (Healer/Support)
- Vampire (Drain Life)
- Bard (Support/Disabler)
Besides that you can have several occupations like socialite, adventurer, merchant, collector, arcanist, botanist, astrologist, armorsmith, blacksmith, tamer and alchemist.
Perfect World is a free to play 3D fantasy mmorpg with fair graphics and a nice community.
In this game you have ten playable classes and you can customize your char in almost everything, you can have several mounts and pets and the staff members are very active and competent. The negative aspects are the interface that looks a little old, the PvP that is kinda boring and the XP rate it's low.
The game offers you five races (Human, Untamed, Winged Elf, Tideborn and Earthguard) with two unique classes for each race. Then the ten classes are:
- Archer
- Barbarian
- Assassin
- Blademaster
- Seeker
- Cleric
- Mystic
- Psychic
- Wizard
- Venomancer
APB Reloaded it's a GTA like mmorpg with a good vs evil gameplay, in this case we have cops vs bandits. In both factions you gonna missions to perform, in this missions you will play with your allies and face enemys from the other faction in order to win the mission. Imagine playing the game GTA online with real people, it's just awesome.
The mmorpg Star Trek Online is being developed to be released asfree to play until the end of this year. As all the MMORPG lately are becoming free-to-play, Cryptic Studios did not lose time and also will release the Star Trek Online free-to-play.
Star Trek Online is an mmorpg based on the science fiction franchise Star Trek. The game's story is set in the year 2409, Star Trek Online has great features and graphics. Players have the opportunity to become senior officers of Starfleet and participate in missions that will take them to the depths of space, through exotic planets of all types. Star Trek Online offers full customization from a player's avatar, weapon upgrades such as clothing and more.
FireFall is a team-basedaction shooter and it's currently in beta fase. As far as i know it will be free to play and the gameplay remember me a bit of the game Borderlands. For more information check the video or the website.
Aika is a free to play mmorpg, from gPotato, heavily based on PvP with Castle Sieges and Realm Battles that can can have more than 2000 people fighting at the same time. The graphics are really good and the environment detail is quite decent too. The game community is not bad and the gameplay seem very interesting. Aika Online offeres you six playable classes:
Another great feature of Aika Online it's the fact that you have to define a PIN (four numbers) for each character that you create which mean that even if anyone find out your account they can't enter the game with your characters because they don't know the PIN.
DC Universe Online or DCUO is an mmorpg by Sony Online Entertainment - Austin. Jim Lee serves as the game's Executive Creative Director, along with Carlos D'Anda, JJ Kirby, Oliver Nome, Eddie Nuñez, Livio Ramondelli, and Michael Lopez. EverQuest developer Chris Cao was the Game Director through launch up to May 2011, but has since stepped down to be replaced by Mark Anderson, previously the Art Director. Shawn Lord is also involved. Geoff Johns is the principal writer.
The game has beautifull graphics and a marvelous fighting system. It features a Non-Targeting-System that allows you to fight multiple enemys at the same time. There are PvP and PvE servers. In both, heroes and villains are in the same area but in the PvP ones you can attack others. There are quests that can be done either in the streets or in dungeons. In most dungeons there are bosses. All bosses are famous DC characters. You choose your mentor from 3 heroes/villains (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman / Joker, Lex Luthor, Circe) they represent 3 different specializations, Tech, Meta and Magic. You can choose one from six different powers (Fire, Ice, Mental, Nature, Sorcery and Gadgets) and also one from three movement modes (Speed, Acrobatics and Flight)
Regardless of the game's nice mechanics and graphics, the playerbase is low, but with the conversion to Free-To-Play it is normal that the playerbase grows alot in the first few weeks, because many people don't want to pay, because there are other alternatives such as Champions Online.