Sony is cooperating with NCSOFT, a well-known Korean game company, to develop a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO) set in the "Horizon" worldview, named "Horizon: Steel Frontiers".It is reported that this game is defined as "an MMO specially built for mobile devices" and plans to simultaneously launch on PC, iOS and Android platforms.
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In the announcement video, Jan-Bart van Beek, studio director of PlayStation's Guerrilla Games, made it clear: "Horizon: Steel Frontiers is a complete MMORPG carefully crafted by NCSOFT for mobile platforms." He emphasized that players will be able to "step into the borders of this world anytime, anywhere."
According to the video content, the core experience of the game will revolve around players cooperatively hunting giant mechanical beasts.Executive producer Sung-Gu Lee explained in the video: "The core concept of the game can be summarized in one sentence: the ultimate pleasure brought by hunting giant machines." To this end, the development team introduced new combat mechanisms. For example, players can pick up weapons dropped by mechanical beasts and load them on their mounts for subsequent battles.
Players will play as a mechanical hunter in the game and explore an area called "The Land of the Dead" inspired by Arizona and New Mexico in the United States.Unlike previous games in the series, players will no longer play the protagonist Eloy, but can completely customize their own character.In this open world shared with thousands of players, players sometimes need to work together to defeat huge mechanical behemoths, and sometimes compete with rival tribes for resources.
At present, the specific release date of the game has not been announced, and the production team only said that it is committed to making the game available to players "as soon as possible".
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