Post by iBishyT on Jul 15, 2009 4:52:17 GMT 10
If you're a fan of TF2, no doubt you've heard of a supposed Korean "ripoff" mmo. When the official trailer was released, showing obvious homages to TF2 characters (robotic Demoman with an eyepatch, quick paced anime girl with baseball bat, anime girl with Heavy machine gun, etc), many people screamed RIPOFF, while others said "let's not be too hasty".
Well, official gameplay footage has now been released.
www.tagstory.com/video/video_post.aspx?media_id=V000340902
It's a first person shooter MMO where you play a bunch of toys (both robotic action figures and typical anime resin models) duking it out in a variety of levels, many of them being liliput (keeping to the toy theme).
Yes, it's obviously riding on the coattails of TF2's success by being a cartoony shooter with big guns (some of them being similar to some of TF2's weapons), but that's really where the similarity ends.
First of all there is no class system, you instead build a character yourself from a ground up and equip him/her/it with whatever weaponry you want before battle. The only weapon you could really consider being ripped directly from TF2 would be the heavy machine gun. As you can see from the gameplay video, the "demobot" has both of his eyes in tact and can use any of the weapons in the game (not just the grenade launcher), which means that the aformentioned one eye'd demobot was actually created through character customisation, which means that maybe the trailer was meant to be a deliberate spoof/parody of TF2's trailer as opposed to just plain ripping it off.
But anyways, whether it's a ripoff or not, I personally am loving this. From what i've seen, it seems to combine a lot of the manic fun of TF2 with wonderfully crafted manga graphics (which I am a whore for), as well as the type of character customisation that we've all come to expect from asian MMOs. It's also quite surprising to see that all of it's voice acting and main text seems to be in English.
So yeah, once this game gets an English server I am definitely checking this out!
Well, official gameplay footage has now been released.
www.tagstory.com/video/video_post.aspx?media_id=V000340902
It's a first person shooter MMO where you play a bunch of toys (both robotic action figures and typical anime resin models) duking it out in a variety of levels, many of them being liliput (keeping to the toy theme).
Yes, it's obviously riding on the coattails of TF2's success by being a cartoony shooter with big guns (some of them being similar to some of TF2's weapons), but that's really where the similarity ends.
First of all there is no class system, you instead build a character yourself from a ground up and equip him/her/it with whatever weaponry you want before battle. The only weapon you could really consider being ripped directly from TF2 would be the heavy machine gun. As you can see from the gameplay video, the "demobot" has both of his eyes in tact and can use any of the weapons in the game (not just the grenade launcher), which means that the aformentioned one eye'd demobot was actually created through character customisation, which means that maybe the trailer was meant to be a deliberate spoof/parody of TF2's trailer as opposed to just plain ripping it off.
But anyways, whether it's a ripoff or not, I personally am loving this. From what i've seen, it seems to combine a lot of the manic fun of TF2 with wonderfully crafted manga graphics (which I am a whore for), as well as the type of character customisation that we've all come to expect from asian MMOs. It's also quite surprising to see that all of it's voice acting and main text seems to be in English.
So yeah, once this game gets an English server I am definitely checking this out!
