Seven Souls Online aka Martial Empires

http://martialempires.gamigo.com/

The official website of Seven Souls Online, the new MMORPG of Korea-based Crspace, has been open to the public on November 25th. Besides, its first closed beta is imminent!


Seven Souls Online is an oriental fantasy game that costs Crspace two years and it is scheduled to launch the first closed beta in mid-December 2009. Before the official release in Korea, Seven Souls Online has been exported to Taiwan and Europe at the beginning of the year and absorbed a lot of attention in overseas market. Being rich in basic content and gorgeous game graphics, Seven Souls Online is an anticipated game loyal to pleasing MMORPG elements. It is certain that it will become outstanding and eye-catching among numerous new games after its debut in December 2009.


Seven Souls Online will first impress players with the fantasy style, charming oriental characters, magnificent game graphics, diverse backgrounds, delicately designed NPCs and monsters and suitable music in different scenes. Meanwhile, the quest system that can be performed quickly and the familiar skill tree will premiere in an improved condition.


The development director of Seven Souls Online expressed, "Nowadays, there are a number of RPGs featuring wide world view, dazzling actions and complex learning system. Certainly, more such games will appear later. However, only the game that reinforces the game content and convenience on the basis of knowing what experience players really want and keeps communication with players can be considered as a true MMORPG."

Seven Souls Online is an oriental fantasy game for adults. As the name suggests, this game has a unique Seven Souls System that doesn’t exist in other MMORPGs. Characters are designed as the guardians of Seven Souls which are the force source to create the world, so they must prevent the evil from using seven souls.

In the game, Seven Souls Online will provide the quests integrating the storylines of seven souls and game characters. Seven Souls can be collected, enhanced and combined so that players can enjoy a totally new gaming experience.

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Apart from the seven soul system, cube system where items can be combined, decomposed and duplicated, interesting storyline quests, ceremonies that allow players to take part in and to win considerable prizes, dungeon-like instances where players can team up to challenge Bosses, guild seal battles among guilds, siege system with new combat modes and much more features...are all can be experienced in Seven Souls Online.

Most of the previous adult online games lay stress on female characters or violence, but Seven Souls Online will present the game systems and elements that RPG gamers desire. With the help of progressive item system, this game shakes off the yoke of dull leveling-up MMORPGs. Be aware! The first closed beta of Seven Souls Online will start in mid-December, which is named "Relationship Test".

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"The development director of Seven Souls Online expressed, "Nowadays, there are a number of RPGs featuring wide world view, dazzling actions and complex learning system. Certainly, more such games will appear later. However, only the game that reinforces the game content and convenience on the basis of knowing what experience players really want and keeps communication with players can be considered as a true MMORPG."

the game director seems to really get what players want by saying those words above.i will test it when its out in english version just to see if he talking shit or not heh

Wow, nice comment made by that game director. I might go through the needed steps to see if there is any truth to that statement.

But at the end of the day that statement only holds true if it can make money. Company might force him to change things etc so statement shouldn't be taken so seriously if in the end he doesn't have the power but still worth a shot trying haha.

Update 22st. Dec.: You can sign up for the up coming closed beta test now on the official website of Seven Souls's English Version Project S in EU and NA. Click Here to Get the English Version Beta Test Code (NOTE: You must sign up first before they send the code to your E-mail).

Project S - Trailer

Seven Souls (codenamed Project S formerly) which Korea-based CRspace has been developing for more than two years, is an Korean 18+ fantasy MMORPG combining eastern with western styles. It launched its first closed beta test on November 15th in Korea. Prior to the test, the official has unveiled abundant game introduction in order to lead players to get familiar with Seven Souls. It is confirmed that Seven Souls will be published on global, including NA and EU, but its release date is not clear yet.

Have you noticed our last introduce about Seven Souls: Seven Souls Online: No Violence But Adult-Only Rated, Korean govenment confirmed that the game is an adult only MMO. Latesly the developer unveilded many feature about it. The most anticipated feature is Jackpoint System.

Official Website (KR): http://www.sevensoulsonline.co.kr/main.php

Seven Souls Online - OST: Character Select BGM

Click Here for More Seven Souls Music

Game World Outlook

Based on oriental world view and a fictitious east land "Leya" (transliterated), Seven Souls evolves its storyline full of fantastic martial arts content.

Origin of Leya

Leya was just a chaotic and dry land before the formation of universe. One day, the above Babylon City disappeared of unknown reason but came into existence in the center of the Leya continent before long, and a mysterious city called Nightin (transliterated) also emerged out of the void, which thus changed the fate of the Leya continent since then and made it stuck in danger.

Combat Skills

Release Souls

For the sake of living, residents released the six souls which were sealed in the center of Nightin City. Nourished by Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, Wood and Metal Souls, Nightin City became bountiful and wealthy and people lived a happy life there. However, except Nightin, Babylon and other areas of the Leya continent began to suffer adverse circumstances.

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Seal Guardians

In order to stabilize the disordered situation, the city head sent 6 young men to seal the souls. The six warriors summoned the strongest Life Soul by sacrificing baby girl twins to resist turbulent waves towards the city.

Thousands of years passed, the Leya continent was split into East and West parts which were occupied by Nightin and Babylon respectively. Likewise, people lived separately in one of the two cities and forgot the past things gradually. A new age has begun!

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Magic Organization's Conspiracy

The Magic Organization (literally translated) which owns the most advanced technology in Babylon is seeking ways to unseal the seven souls so as to replenish their magic and expand their forces. The Moon Men who know the reason why Babylon was destroyed before and the Guardians who protect the Leya Seal learn of the Magic Organization's ambition and begin to raise alertness. Nevertheless, the seven souls' seal becomes weaker and weaker because of being impacted by destructive forces and as a result part of the soul power has leaked and spread all over the Leya continent.

To enhance the weakening seven souls' seal, again, the Guardians and the Moon Men who have witnessed the past of the Nightin City take up arms and fight for their land.

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Game Features

As the game is centered on the seven souls system, players have to gather seven kinds of soul power from all over the world to enhance items and initiate skills.

Characters will be born with a Soul Collector which can help them gather souls automatically. Aside from that, they can obtain souls through battling with the evil. When a certain number of souls are collected, Soul Crystals will be acquired and players can click on one of them to get diversified Soul Stones. In the meanwhile, every time a character advance by 10 levels, he/she can gain a new soul slot after completing a storyline quest, so that he/she can socket suitable soul attribute into his/her character. Additionally, various Soul Stones can be compounded and transformed into a more advanced stone.

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Characters (Classes)

• Moon Man:
  Having escaped from the Magic Organization, Moon Men intend to stop the Magic Organization unsealing the seven souls.
  
  
• Assassin:
  She became an orphan after her mother was killed when she was young, so she thirsts for revenge.
  
  
• Officer:
  With the aim of protecting the emperor and keeping the world's peace, officers take on varied missions and commit themselves to eradicating the Magic Organization which plots to usurp power.

Adult System

Seven Souls has a unique Jackpot System. Making use of this system, players can win items, equipment and Exp by laying Exp obtained from slaying monsters, earn attribute bonuses randomly while doing enhancement or acquire duplicate items via the in-game probability design. Even if players engage in harvesting, open roadside chests and play mini games, they will gain similar interesting experiences.

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Diversified Combat System

In Seven Souls world, specific instances will be opened at a scheduled time and Bosses will await players to challenge. The instance difficulty will be different according to a single player or the number of team members. Players will be teleported there after making confirmation and will receive rewards after defeating Bosses successfully. Combats play is a key role in the game, but players can also enjoy the game settings, social relationship and other storyline content through the quest system. What's more, distinct eastern-style and western-style designs, mini games, jackpot system are all rich elements to make up of Seven Souls.

Currently, Seven Souls has been undergoing its first closed beta test from December 15th to December 21st in Korea. Only players who submitted applications via its official site before December 10th are qualified to take part in this test.

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Seven Souls Online, developed by CR SPACE will enter 2nd closed beta test on Feb. 18 in Korea. The publisher NHN announced that 40000 players will get the chance to play the game, including 30000 newers and the first beta test players. In addition, the NA version of Seven Souls Online will be published by CR SPACE and open to public in Martch or April.

Seven Souls Online Official Partner Forum.

FAQ for Seven Souls Online. (updating)

Seven Souls Overview:

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• Title: SEVEN SOULS ONLINE
  
  
• Platform : PC Online
  
  
• Genre : Crossover Oriental Fantasy MMORPG
  
  
  
• Background: Mythical continent Nehasimilar to 19c. China
  
  
• Viewpoint : TPS (third-person view)
  
  
• Commercialization : Free to Play
  
  
• Target Market: over 18
  
  
• Specifications: CPU P3 800MHz, Memory 512 MBVGA, GeForcefx5200, Radeon7500 64 MB
  
  
• Recommended specificationsCPU P4 2.4, Memory 1 GBVGA GeForce7600, Radeon9550 256 MB
  
  

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• Simple easy control
  
  
  
• User friendly and intuitive interface
  
  
• Full of PvP/PvE features and events
  
  
• Loaded with gamble & other non-combat system
  
  

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  New features in Seven Souls Online

  
  
  
• 200% upgraded realistic dynamic action
  
  
• Sophisticated and elaborate effects

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Seven Souls Online Story Background:

I. The Beginning: Nights of the beautiful continent Nehagleamed bright with two moons. Beautiful it may be, but it was no kind place of humans. For survival the Ancients have discovered a powerful force they named Terre, the very souls of Neha. By unleashing its forces, Ancients attempted to gain power over Neha. They have thought they can tame its powers with mana-technology. However it was only a futile attempt. Soon after, the Ancients realized that Terre was destroying balance of the lands. To stop Terre from destroying Nehacompletely, Ancients gathered their last resources to seal Terre forever. A difficult mission, but they overpowered Terre, and have named seven keepers to defend the seal of seven souls of Terre.

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II. The East and The West: The continent was saved from destruction, yet the devastation was nevertheless great. Terre has caused a Great Fissure dividing the continent into two, The East and The West. And powerful ocean currents took over separating these lands forever. And now for a thousand year, The East and The West cultures two distinct civilizations. Ignorant of each others existence. And the knowledge of the seven souls and its keepers forgotten….

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III. New Age: 1001th year, The East and The West witnessed a heavenly devastations. The smaller moon, Babylon was destroyed, shattered into pieces. The event has changed ocean currents of Nehaunveiling a vast sunken territory that bridged The East and The West. For the first time in history, two continents learned about each other. And new lands were to be explored and conquered. New knowledge were to be discovered and exploited.

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The inhabitants of Babylon who escaped the destruction moved to Nehaintroduced stunning technology to people of Neha. The West eager to explore the new lands quickly declared Babylonians as their friends. The East advanced in astrology and magic took destruction of a Babylon as an ill omen and kept to their traditions.

More Seven Souls Online Information on MMOsite Seven Souls Online Official Partner Forum

Seoul, Korea – Feb.25.2010 - Seven Souls Online is an Asian-themed Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) developed by CR-Space, a studio behind popular MMORPG DO Online. CR-Space's third MMORPG Seven Souls Online has currently wrapped up the 2nd Closed Beta test on February 22nd operated by NHN in Korea.

Seven Souls Online Official Partner Forum.

FAQ for Seven Souls Online. (updating)

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Seven Souls Online pays attention to details. The game features a variety of combat techniques such as Special Transformation Attack and Auto Buff against attacks based on Skill Combo system and Rage Gauge. Especially Combo system enables auto attack by inputting a sequence of skills.

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Seven Souls Online also offers an ability to create a new item using wrecked materials or collecting resources.

Seven Souls main features:

Fusion combo & chain skills & Party playing skills.

Smart skill tree.

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Been watching this one for a while signed up for beta to ;o)

the development of the game is making real progress and so we are very
happy to announce that the english CBT will start end of March!

Register now to get the change to test the game as one of the first in
the CBT!
http://martialempires.gamigo.com/

shu:looks a bit similar to aion but floating bike system to teleport instead of aerial bird in aion.
the combat system is pretty nice.but i do not like that auto fast run inside.seems dizzy lolz

Is the beta just for EU?
If you look at the top right side of the main site, it only has the UK and German flag.

CBT about to start today. The following web page has a link to a limited number of free CBT (500) keys:
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2010-03-22/hurry_up_500_keys_for_martial_empire_eu_is_waiting_for_you.shtml

ahh... i forgot about this <_<

Im testing the bow class because it looks cool.

Seven Souls Online
Preview
Developer: CRspace
Publisher: CRspace
Official Site (US): Unconfirmed (CBT, March 2010)
Official Site (KR): http://www.sevensoulsonline.co.kr




Platform: PC Online
Genre: Crossover Oriental Fantasy (MMORPG)
Background: Mythical continent Neha similar to 19c. China
Viewpoint: TPS (Third-person view)
Commercialization: Free to Play (F2P)
Target Market: 18+

Specifications
CPU P3 800MHz, Memory 512 MB VGA GeForce fx5200, Radeon 7500 64 MB

Recommended specifications
CPU P4 2.4, Memory 1 GB VGA GeForce 7600, Radeon 9550 256 MB




I. The Beginning: Nights of the beautiful
continent Neha gleamed bright with two moons. Beautiful it maybe, but it
was no kind place of humans. For survival the Ancients have discovered a
powerful force they named Terre, the very souls of Neha. By unleashing
its forces, Ancients attempted to gain power over Neha.

They have thought they can tame its powers with mana-technology. However
it was only a futile attempt. Soon after, the Ancients realized that
Terre was destroying balance of the lands. To stop Terre from destroying
Neha completely, Ancients gathered their last resources to seal Terre
forever. A difficult mission, but they overpowered Terre, and have named
seven keepers to defend the seal of seven souls of Terre.

II. The East and The West: The continent
was saved from destruction, yet the devastation was nevertheless great.
Terre has caused a Great Fissure dividing the continent into two, The
East and The West. And powerful ocean currents took over separating
these lands forever.

And now for a thousand year, The East and The West cultures two distinct
civilizations. Ignorant of each others existence. And the knowledge of
the seven souls and its keepers forgotten

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III. New Age: 1001th year, The East and
The West witnessed a heavenly devastations. The smaller moon, Babylon
was destroyed, shattered into pieces. The event has changed ocean
currents of Neha unveiling a vast sunken territory that bridged The East
and The West. For the first time in history, two continents learned
about each other. And new lands were to be explored and conquered. New
knowledge were to be discovered and exploited.

The inhabitants of Babylon who escaped the destruction moved to Neha
introduced stunning technology to people of Neha. The West eager to
explore the new lands quickly declared Babylonians as their friends. The
East advanced in astrology and magic took destruction of a Babylon as
an ill omen and kept to their traditions.

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Seven Souls Online (SSO) consists of a number of unique battle fields
that allow the person to grasp onto a range of enemies and scenarios.
Information regarding the battlegrounds (or dungeons) include the
following characteristics;
- Special maps that open periodically
- enabling random PvP or PvE missions
- User can participate from any place
- Available for all character level





We can confirm that the game will consist of PK (Player Killing) system,
as well as siege war and regional wars between guilds. Various
advantages for the winning party include, buffs and gold. In addition to
the siege war system, the game also includes a guild mercenary feature.
We can confirm that the game, Seven Souls, contains a range of quests
integrated with a cohesive scenario. Players can also engage in special
quest that are designed for specific classes. Each quest contains an
exclusive story, objective, difficulty and rewards. Quests can also be
considered part of the game story or tutorial based, normal, item based
or repetitive quests that allow characters to develop further.

In Seven Souls players can form a guild, party and establish their own
friends list. Players have the ability to also customize their chat
channels. Players in-game can also send mail and perform grand exchanges
(auction). We can also confirm that Seven Souls will consist of a pet
system that allow individuals to customize their favorite pets. Pets can
also develop and growth like their character.

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During the early stages of the game (Lv1-25 (Beginner Class)) players
are engaged with a range of beginner class items, tutorials and basic
quests. During the beginning class period individuals can also use the
pet system, jackpot features and other gambling games, along with weapon
specialization features and upgrades. During the Intermediate phase
(Lv26-49) players begin to experience more in depth quests and can also
experience the field dungeons. From lv26 you can also engage in PK
combat, raids, guilds and other community based systems and finally a
range of additional professions (i.e. crafting and production). As a
player reaches the peak (Lv50+) they begin to experience more siege wars
and guild based regional battles including instances.

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Overall, players are able to experience dynamic and realistic action,
elaborate effects and a smart skill system. Players can also experience
unlimited item upgrades and enchantments, as well as no level limits.
The features that make this game unimaginable include; the Guild War
Battlegrounds, Pet Growth and Development, Mini-games features (i.e.
jackpot, gambling, etc) and of course the unique game visualizations.

lmao tiger rape :3

I just met WuDi and the rest of Reborn guild in CBT. I didn't know he was the same chap from Rohan Online, until they formed their guild (need to be lvl 25 to create).


His pm reaction when he found me was: oh my...O_o

any feedback and review after testing?

Shu wrote:

any feedback and review after testing?

Graphics & music
Visually, it's like Aika; the world looks sweet. Of course not to the caliber of B&S or FFXIV. Characters and equipment are well drawn. Combat is eye-candy when skills connect.
Interface windows can be adjusted according to preference. Even word fonts can be customized.
For music, it has a several different tracks between zones.

Gameplay features
Most battles will be engaged in melee. Skills are activated often for combo chains, which can accumulate as long as combat sustains over several targets.

Diablo-style alchemy cube - allows items to be combined/dismantled/copied. Cube recipes are unknown for now.

Crafting - players must master 1 or 2 item type to generate market revenue from sale of crafted gear.

Production - Fishing, farming and mining is another source of wealth for players.

Travel - Two modes of travel exist. Either teleport between major strongholds or enjoy a ride in a flying caravel across the world for small outposts.

Instanced periodic battlegrounds - limited by player level

Instanced dungeons - party based

Card and Insignia bonuses - attribute buffs from these items increase as a char level up

Personal bank, guild bank and market exist here. A mail system that allow remote item transfers between players is also featured.

Quest based - Entirely level quest based. Also, repeatable quests (few) are limited by character level. Eg. a lvl 4 player cannot redo a repeatable lvl 3 quest. So no chance to grind in fixed spots.

Drawbacks about the game
No mounts yet...and a lot of ground to cover when moving.
Gender restrictions in character classes, which is limited to begin with.
Everyone often fights at melee range.

so i can say its 60% done really and more is needed?

i wonder how hackable is it considering it is a new mmo unlike aika.i personally do not like the running and i heard from people its high pc spec req so not everyone will be able to play.

and from what u posting i get the feeling its a normal mmo and still lacking in more enjoyability

a friend even told me there is no open pvp

PvP outside of event battles come in 2 forms: Duel challenge and Open PKing mode
The former works while the latter is currently set for lvl 20+. The reward/penalty system is not ready yet.

The game is about 60-70% done, but many features are locked by administrators. I suspect there might be another round of CB. As for specs, this is the minimum requirement:

CPU : P4, 2.4k
RAM : 1 GB
VGA : (NVIDIA) Geforce 6600
with
128Mb / (ATI) Radeon x1300 with 128Mb
HDD : free hard drive space
5GB
DirectX : DirectX 9.0c or higher.

cool thanks for cleaning it up.this could be one of the mmo we can consider playing while waiting for ffxiv or b&s.although i prefer to go for project 9 first to test.

Shu wrote:

cool thanks for cleaning it up.this could be one of the mmo we can consider playing while waiting for ffxiv or b&s.although i prefer to go for project 9 first to test.

I suggest u stay in Aika. I'm just CB testing it. It is to my opinion similar to Aika's restrictive play, save for having crafting, gambling and slightly demanding graphics.

Also guild creation is only possible at lvl 25 - and only if u make it to the 3rd map, Dragonskale. Worst, basic management features such as member promotions and guild bank storage are locked until the guild attains a certain level.

If u want to try it, just pm me for CB account id and password here... assuming u already have its client installed.