Warrior Epic set to conquer this Spring

Are you ready to write your own adventure epic starting this Spring? With the new online action role-playing game Warrior Epic, you may yet fulfill that dream of not only witnessing and writing the beginning of a saga but also starring in it.

At this point I’d like to shut up for a moment and let Warrior Epic’s operator and publisher do the talking:

True Games reveals key features and game details for its new MMORPG, Warrior Epic

True Games Interactive, an international publisher of multiplayer online games, has revealed the first key features and game details for its highly anticipated online action MMORPG, Warrior Epic. Developed by Austin-based studio Possibility Space, the game has already developed a growing community since the developer launched the Warrior Epic website last year. With the new publishing partnership, True Games Interactive is now sharing new features, screenshots, and game details as it gears up for the game’s Spring 2009 launch.

Warrior Epic is an online, action role-playing game set in an original fantasy universe. In the game, players will assume command of a Warrior Hall from which they manage their characters’ adventures. They can recruit from a wide array of warrior classes, each with its own style of play. The classes and the hall itself can be upgraded visually as well as functionally. Players adventure together in multiplayer campaigns, adventure mode, solo quests, and player-versus-player matches.

One of the most unique aspects of Warrior Epic is that death does not mean the end of a warrior. Instead, it opens totally new and strategic options for players. The game’s unique Warrior Spirits System enables fallen warriors to not only be revived at any time at their hall, but also to be transformed into spirits that can be bound to weapons to increase and open weapon abilities and skills, or they can be called out to inflict massive damage depending on player needs.

“Possibility Space and True Games are doing an incredible job building the Warrior Epic universe,” said Jeff Lujan, founder and chairman of True Games Interactive. “The game creates this totally new genre of session-based MMOs with incredibly innovative gameplay features that have been fine-tuned and are sure to offer global appeal. Gage Galinger and Feng Zhu, founders of Possibility Space, are highly talented video game veterans,” Lujan continued. “Their game design and creative talent combined with the amazing technical and publishing background of our team at True Games makes for the perfect development relationship.”

So there you have it, in a nutshell.

What intrigues me the most about Warrior Epic is its Warrior Spirits System. Don’t get me wrong, the game is shaping up to be great. What bothers me is this line: “… but also to be transformed into spirits that can be bound to weapons to increase and open weapon abilities and skills.” Can players do this multiple—infinite—times? What I mean is, can players level characters to a certain extent, get them killed, and use the spirits on their weapons, and then create new characters, level them … well you get the picture.

I’m sure measures will be in place once Warrior Epic goes live. I guess we’ll just have to wait until Spring, which is only several days away.

More on Warrior Epic within the week.