RAKION (now with screenshots)

[Marc Summers]

Softnyx (people who made Gunbound) released a new game called Rakion...and it's pretty good stuff :)

URL: http://rakion.softnyx.net (make sure you check out the screenshots & movies)

So you get to pick from 5 classes: Swordsman, Mage, Ninja, Archer, or Blacksmith and you basically join a room and kill things according to the specific rules.

You do level up and get money to buy better stuff...PLUS summons like minotaurs, dragons, golems, etc...

So after you fill up this bar in the bottom right of your screen you can choose to enter chaos mode, where you become extremely powerful for a certain time.

The main problem about the game is the requirements they put up, but I think they may be lowered at a later date:
512 MB RAM
128 MB graphics card
1.8 GHz processor


It's 3rd person, but it has a good reason because it's a LOT easier to see the range of your weapon from that POV. Anyway, they're having a character reset on the 25th to mark the end of the closed beta.

This game is REALLY GOOD (not just for a free game either) so at least give it a try!!!

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/3620/stagebshot000023ij.jpg
Normal mage

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/3891/magec17dr.jpg
Mage in CHAOS(The mage basically controlles a powerful mannequin)

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4237/shot49419dh.jpg
Normal swordsman

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/687/warriorc17ze.jpg
Preda-- I mean Chaos Swordsman :/

[DarthCabby]

OMFG This GAME RULES!!! I played the Open Beta test, and I was like, OMFG THIS GAME RULES!!!

[xbxDaniel]

What kind of gameplay is it, what about plot, or is it like the international edition of Gunz where it's just fighting?

[Marc Summers]

It's kinda like Gunz, but it's mostly close combat since using long range weapons can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. You have to spend a half to a whole second switching between long range and short range weapons, so most of the characters made for close combat stay that way.

There isn't really a plot, but the gameplay was kinda fun. It is "just fighting", but there's a lot of strategy involved in team play, especially Golem Mode which is like capture the flag. Most strategies involved creating diversions and baiting the enemy, or sometimes I'd just have my teammates go melee while I hung back and shot semi-tracking fireballs with my mage.

Btw it was a closed beta, It'll open up either this month or next month...they don't have a date yet :/

[darkvare]

i cant dowload it i have already gunbound but i cant download this game i was wondering is the game unavailible for the momment?

[Marc Summers]

Ya they just took it down :(
But they said it'll be back up late this month or early next month because they wanna test it in latin america for some reason...

[Supafly345]

Are you their public rep?

[Zomboid]

:lol