Today marks the beginning of open beta for Allods Online; coming from developers Astrum Nival, Allods is a highly polished free-to-play MMO. The game is a massively multi-player take on 90′s series Rage of Mages and sees the player joining the ranks of one of the games two warring factions, imaginatively titled ‘the League’ and ‘the Empire’. Allods is cited as the most expensive game in Russian development history, with figures of around the $12 million mark bandied about.
Interesting features include the promise of being able to build your own Astral Battleship through cooperative play and one of the races called the Gibberlings sees your avatar taking the form of three cute furry creatures. The cartoon-like art style will inevitably draw comparisons to the behemoth that is World of Warcraft, but Allods has a level of polish rarely seen in F2P games.
You can sign up and download the client here if you’re in the EU or here if you’re in the US.
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