The Day

Take a look at the preeminent Fantasy MMOs available: World of Warcraft takes place in Azeroth. Age of Conan's setting is Hyborea. Guild Wars boasts Tyria as its location. Lord of the Rings Online has Middle-Earth, which Tolkien refers to as much as an age as a location, hinting that it could in fact be Earth's past, but the landscape as described doesn't really match anything in our reality.

And what does Earth have? Hellgate: London, The Agency, The Day, and possibly The Secret World. While there may be supernatural elements in a couple of these titles, for the most part they belong firmly in a science-grounded reality, and couldn't be considered true Fantasy settings. So what gives? With the unlimited imagination on display for all these other titles, why does Earth get short shrift? Is there any good reason for our fair Terra to be left out of the Fantasy loop?

Precious little information has been revealed about Reloaded Studios' upcoming sci-fi MMO, The Day. Jino Lee, the game's lead producer, recently sat down with 1up and revealed a bit more about what we should expect to see. Players choose to be the "nobly oppressed" or the "power-hungry dominators" and fight via PvP battles to literally control time. A third unplayable "bad guy" class, referred to as "The Arch Enemy," helps drive the story along.

The Day involves something that hasn't been attempted before on such a grand scale: time travel. Players (even low level ones) will have the ability to jump through time and visit the near future as well as the distant past.

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Gamershell brings news of in-development Korean title The Day, an MMO featuring an interesting conceit: players will travel back and forth through time to alter their present-day circumstances and prevent worldwide disaster. Whether or not that sounds cool to you, they've released a few new concept art pictures that display an amazing breadth of environments and gameplay possibilities.

Check out the pictures here, including previously-released artwork, and keep an eye out for more news concerning The Day. If they're planning on letting you visit actual, real-world historical locations, as hinted in the above painting, then this could be an example of a new type of MMO genre, the kind that many of us have been hoping would appear.