XL Games teases new ArcheAge trailer

The ArcheAge publicity machine is starting to make a bit of noise (and it's about time too, the title's been in development since 2006). XL Games has just released a brief video preview -- which is itself a teaser for a full-length trailer that will debut shortly. The game is also gearing up for its third Korean closed beta, with testing scheduled to kick off on May 24th.

The video crams a ton of new footage into its one-minute running time, and we're unabashedly salivating for the full-length trailer as well as the game. ArcheAge is the brainchild of noted Korean developer Jake Song, and looks to fuse sandbox and themepark elements to create the first "third generation" MMORPG experience. ArcheAge also features music from renowned Korean composers Yoon Sang and Shin Hae Chul, and fantasy novelist Jun Min Hee is involved in the conceptualization of what XL calls "game scenarios."

ArcheAge is being developed using both CryEngine 2 and 3, and aims to set the standard for both graphical performance and varied gameplay options. Feast your eyes on the teaser after the cut.

Reader Comments (27)

Every single trailer makes me want to play this game more. It seems similar to GW2 for the fact that we'll actually be able to interact with environments. The one thing that I wonder about is how the class system will work. Is it going to be classless or will it be a game with strict archetypes or will it be somewhere in between?

@gingus418

Pretty good thread here on what is known so far (and has the class information): http://archeagesource.com/topic/26-all-that-we-know-about-archeage/

@Halldorr thanks, I'll check it out!

Gorgeous game, although I could do with fewer catgirls.

Promising concept.

@Nenene
So far cat-people only thing I don't like about it. What is this thing asian games have with the obligatory cat-people?

@Saker
I don't know, but it's getting very, very old.

@Nenene Cat girls are timeless thank you very much.

Great looking, great concept.

I hope it translates off paper.

graphics looks decent enough. the combat system and class/skill organization will make it or break it for me.

I am a little apprehensive about the combat animations (they look asian-style (like Street Fighter). Also apprehensive about the Tab-Targeting. But for a Sandpark its looks good otherwise.

Wow

Love me that CryEngine! I am SO sick of Havok and others...

Wow.

this game has airships... that all i need

Hopefully this game can live up to its phenomenal potential. What the developers are proposing is a very tall order.

The West produces Darkfall and the East works on ArcheAge to basicly show how it should be done. ^_^

Too bad the West will mostly likely have to wait years after it's release in the East before it's "Westernized". I just hope they don't wait too long that by the time it's released it will be dated, I don't it though as there are few MMOs of this type (unlike say Blade and Soul.)

@Unshra Bah that's what I get for not reading though my post before clicking submit.

"I don't it" = "I doubt it"

I think left and body moves right. :p

@(Unverified) I have read that as well and they have their site which has rarely been touched. So far it seems like the West is an after thought, we see little to no information about it coming to the West outside of the first announcement and all demos in the West have been tech demos. Everything else comes from translations, this is why I believe it will be a long time before we see it in the West. I would expect two plus years after the release in the East (which is about par).

A few new things in this trailer, but a few old things from the previous trailer.

I try to be skeptical about Hype and all, and I still am, but even though I am so sick of fantasy and looking for a game with a different genre, particularly Sci-Fi, if this game pulls off much of these sandpark things, it may wind up as being my main MMO of choice.

Climbing!

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