One of the first free-to-play, triple-A, flight-based MMORPGs to come along since gPotato's Fly For Fun is Astrum Nival’s Allods Online. Despite the release for this game drawing ever so near it’s amazing that more previews and interviews haven’t surfaced for this game. No worries, though, everything you need to know about the upcoming epic-sized massive multiplayer online title will be discussed right here.
The game has already been undergoing testing for server stress, combat and the like. Just recently the company announced that registration for the closed-beta was underway and that the open-beta is shaping up to take place soon enough. But before talking about registration, sign-ups and clients, let’s talk a little bit about what this game is about and why it might be worth your time.
The story is a rather intriguing one as it involves a universe that’s constantly evolving through a shapeless, formless energy called the Astral. Given that there are creative and destructive natures within the astral that form and destroy isles, planets and habitable lumps of land, the inhabitants within the universe called the shattered gaps of mass, allods. Only the mages were able to manipulate travel from one allod to another and ultimately dictated power and control over the inhabitants. That is, until one day it was discovered that anyone could travel through the astral fields unharmed using astral transportation devices.
Within the universe of Allods, the inhabitants living on the main land of Sarnaut began developing and manufacturing astral flying ships that embody and embrace the Astral energy, and can use it to travel around to the undiscovered allods. Of course, like all forms of freedom comes the tyrannical urge to control said freedom. Hence, Sarnaut and every other planet within the universe were cast into war over the control of the allods, and it centers around the two main factions called The League and The Empire.
This is where the player comes into the picture, as adventurers trying to uncover the mysteries of the Astral while discovering new allods and fending themselves off from the on-going war. Sounds interesting, eh?