MMO Gamers

In my excitement over the number of new MMOG’s soon to hit the interwebz, I overlooked a couple of games that are worthy of a mention.

Mortal Online is a First Person MMORPG set in a fantasy setting, or so they tell us.  What makes Mortal Online different from many of the MMO’s out there (but not all) is that it is a sandbox game heavily focused on PvP.  Yes, it will have PvE, crafting, housing, blah blah blah; but it is primarily a PvP game.  Open, Free-for-all PvP will be the only server type available.  So if PvP is your thing, then check out Mortal Online.  It’s currently in Beta and has a release date of summer 2009.

Star Trek Online is another Sci Fi MMOG in development.  Beta testing has not yet begun and we don’t have a release date yet so it might be too early to get excited over this one, but I am.  STO will feature not only space combat, but also ground combat in the traditional 3rd person player controlled avatar perspective.  Space combat will be slow and strategic, more like Pirates of the Burning Sea than Jumpgate Evolution.  You begin with a small spacecraft and work your way up to large capital ships.  If they can manage to pull off the combination of space combat and ground combat I will be very pleased and will put this game on my Most Wanted list.