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Rusty Hearts beta impressions

Perfect World Entertainment have been developing and distributing games for a long time now, and with the recent purchase of Cryptic Studios (who brought us such titles as Star Trek Online and Champions Online) I was very excited to hear about Rusty Hearts, which is free to play and the highly anticipated MORPG hack and slash is now in a closed beta phase. The phrase “hack ‘n’ slash” puts me into giddy sweats and I just had to get my grubby mitts on it. Fast paced combo attacks and dungeon discovery, mixed with a barrage of Skeletor monsters and crazy hungry vampires, it sounds like a perfect way to spend an afternoon. So I was one of the thousands to register on launch day to make it the largest day one closed beta turnout to date.

“Within a few hours after launch, our servers reached max capacity and we had to scale up the servers in order to accommodate the flood of players,” said Mark Hill, Game Producer for Rusty Hearts. “It was an exciting day to see the overwhelming response of players dedicated to Rusty Hearts. Now, we will strongly take into consideration player feedback to ensure that the game is fully ready for its wide release.”

As soon as the awaited email hit my inbox I logged in, and after what seemed like a life time downloading the client I was ready for combat. The usual details are dealt with first; character choice, channel, world etc and then my dungeon of choice. The atmosphere has a welcoming feeling I haven’t sensed since the Devil May Cry series. Dark and gloomy scenarios crossed with comical cartoon Anime. It’s works beautifully. The cel-shading rendering within the game brings a simplistic, animated impression to characters, which is really efficacious within Rusty Hearts.

When completed, the game will feature full 3-D town zones where we can trade all the loot acquired when annihilating Skeletor and Count Duckula, join parties or have a good ol’ chin wag. Whilst in these zones the game acts like any other MMO you’ll have played, it’s in the combat zones where the game leaps into a mode that is simply a joy to the eyeballs. It was then that I actually “WOOOOOOOOH” d out loud. It is very rare occurrence from myself, but with Rusty Hearts it is well deserved. The side-scrolling camera mode, slick elegant action pace and well executed art style just blew me away.

The story behind the game is being kept firmly under wraps by PWE, which is a little frustrating as it would be nice to fill in the gaps with the characters, explain the card system (added items) so it doesn’t feel like I am playing Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, or just so it can be separated from all the other supernatural vampire slayer series out there.

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