Gods And Heroes: Another Preview To Drool Over!

Gamespot has the next preview, in what seems to be an endless list of glorious previews with lots of great Information!

Sony Online Entertainment and Perpetual Entertainment want you to start thinking about the upcoming Gods & Heroes not as a massively multiplayer role-playing game but as an action adventure massively multiplayer role-playing game. That's because the style of gameplay in Gods & Heroes is inspired by fighting such games as Mortal Kombat. When you attack something in Gods & Heroes, it looks like you're actually attacking it, and that translates into a much more intense feel to the combat. We recently had a chance to see this for ourselves, as well as tinker around with character creation and minion combat, at Perpetual's San Francisco offices.

Gods & Heroes is set in ancient Rome, and you create a character that battles not only historical foes, such as the Etruscans and the Gauls, but also mythological ones, such as minotaurs and centaurs. The character creation is as deep as you'd expect if you've played many massively multiplayer RPGs. Characters can only be human, but you can choose a gender and a class, including gladiator, soldier, priest, and healer. The class that you select will determine which two Roman gods you can choose from to worship, and that will play a significant role throughout the game. After that, you can customize the appearance of your character, from various facial features using sliders (such as the size of eyes, the separation distance between them, and their color), to hairstyle, body build, skin tone, and more. In no time flat, we made a sleek female Roman soldier, as well as an albino male gladiator.

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