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Review: Wizardry Online brings 1981 dungeon crawling into the MMO era

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Wizardry I, on the Apple II, consumed a significant portion of my freshman year in college. Each game in the series has been painfully addictive, deep, and compelling. The earliest games had a well-deserved reputation for sadistic brutality towards players, with it being quite easy to lose weeks of work and start over, not due to bugs or crashes, but due to deliberately limited save features. If you died in the dungeon, you couldn’t load a saved game. You had to begin anew.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

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Wizardry Online Out Now

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Sony Online Entertainment‘s Wizardy Online has launched. Based on the classic Wizardry franchise, the free-to-play MMORPG is currently available in Japan, Europe and North America. Sony describes Wizardry Online as “a fully re-imagined Wizardry game that stays true to the franchise’s trademark features: hardcore gameplay, intense difficulty, party-based combat and permadeath — where when you’re dead… you stay dead!”

That is not an exaggeration; difficulty is something Wizardry Online touts. If you die you engage a “Lost System,” wherein you get to make a donation to try and revive your body. If your donation isn’t good enough (though how that’s determined wasn’t disclosed in the press release), then you’ll have a second chance to donate. If this happens twice your character is lost for good. Todd Carson, Senior Producer, Sony Online Entertainment, also released the following statement regarding Wizardry Online‘s difficulty:

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games