Shenmue Online voor de PC?

Arjen (Mr_Belvedere)
Sega blijkt van plan te zijn om de nieuwe massive online game, Shenmue Online, ook voor de PC uit te brengen. In augustus was al bekend dat Sega tesamen met de Koreaanse ontwikkelaar JC Entertainment druk bezig is het spel te ontwikkelen voor de Chinese markt. Of het spel ook buiten China verkocht zal worden is nog niet bekend.

Yu Suzuki, de bedenker van de Shenmue series, heeft al wat informatie over het spel gegeven :

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"I've been interested in massively multiplayer Online gaming since the time of the Dreamcast version of Shenmue," "If asked why Shenmue, it's because with the plan that the original game would have a world larger than any other game and have more characters appear than in any other game, the series was meant for massively multiplayer Online."

"Touching on the content we can expect to find in Shenmue Online. The game will have the community and level-raising elements of a standard massively multiplayer Online title, and will progress centering on the battle system cultivated in Virtua Fighter and Shenmue. To that, we're adding fighting based on spirit power and weapons, and plan on making it something that anyone can play."

"The game takes place throughout all of China, and has a story set in the beautiful rivers and mountains and in the historic cities of this country. Events, some from the Dreamcast version and others original and meant for this title, will number over three hundred. Of course, we'll have updates, which will make the world gradually grow. Enemies who don't appear in the conventional Shenmue will appear, so please look forward to this world."

"Conventional Shenmue characters like Ryo Hazuki and Xiuying Hong will appear as Game Masters -- that is, NPC (non playable characters) controlled by the computer. The relationship between those characters and the players themselves is a focus of this title."
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