Friday, March 15, 2013

Vindictus

Vindictus


Introduction
Vindictus is an MMORPG known for its focus on realistic combat and physics. It was developed by pushing the Source Engine to its limits. The game is designed to allow unprecedented interaction with the environment in dungeons. Players can pick up and use many objects seen lying around but ill get to that more in a second.
The game was developed by Devcat and published by Nexon. The game runs in multiple countries including Korea, Europe, Canada, The United States and a few others. This is one the few games  that gamer's have all played. This is no surprise because of the addicting combat which is highly physics reliant and what you see is just the tip of the iceberg.

Selling Points
This game is unlike other MMOPRG's of its genre when the way the character attacks does not feel or look unnatural. This games combat system is all about combo's and the way you dodge attacks. The main selling point about its combat is feel it gives the player. When a character attacks, it doesn't unnaturally swing its sword and not move at all, the character follows through with that attack moving quite accurately and lands a satisfying blow. Play the video below to see how the combat looks in the game's tutorial.

Some keys things to point out:
Attacks must be timed accordingly to land blows meaning you cannot spam to win and critical hits are landed based on how well your attacks are timed. You can also pick up any objects you see in the environment or a defeated enemies corpse to bash on your remaining opponents heads! Their are also numerous events occurring on a monthly basis as you can see in the video a football appeared and the player must fulfill certain requirements to receive a reward. A personal favorite of mine si the fact that the characters feet actually touch the ground and when you run your motions carry over so you don't stop instantly when you let go but you drift.

The next selling point is the "HIGH" customizablility character interface. I do not believe I can put enough emphasis on the amount of detail you can edit on your character making it hard for me to see how any two characters in the game are 100% identical. As you can view in the Video below you can edit any detail you could think possible and you probably can even get your character to look your real life self!

Note: This is a character creation menu for the character Fiona one out the possible 6 characters you can choose to play as of March 2013.

The last selling point would of Course be its amazing GRAPHICS!!! Besides the amazing character interface there are multiple kinds of areas and monsters to fight. Then there are the GIGANTIC 32 person bosses where the boss is always a stunning monster of insane size! Shown below is a Dragon named Beokros and remarkably that is how it actually looks like in game!

The Characters
The characters are all focused on specific categories and work well with eachother. They are:
  1. Evie
  2. Fiona
  3. Lann
  4. Karok
  5. Vella
  6. Kai


My in game ID's are

SigmaChild
Avalis
Ayshe
Drake