Fury: Fury Preview Article at Atomic

Atomic MPC has a Fury Preview article that will give those who haven't had a chance to load the game yet, a better look into what to expect.

Fury is all about combat, with the focus on stabbing, beating and frying opponents with an array of mystical weaponry and spells. While other MMO games have included a PVP component to their game with varying degrees of success, Fury diverges from this formula by stripping away everything else except the conflict. This game is what you'd be left with if you took the hulking slab of marble that is the MMO genre and whittled away the questing, the traipsing across vast worlds and to a large degree - the numbing grind, leaving a purely adversarial engine.

The plot centers around Altaia, a collection of kingdoms in danger of succumbing to the pervasive force of the 'Fade', an all consuming energy which threatens to plunge the realms into oblivion. The people of each empire know that the only way to fight the Fade is with the power of 'essence' - a naturally occurring substance which fuels protective magic for each kingdom. Unfortunately for the natives, their fighting skills leave a fair bit to be desired, so they need some champions to fight for them. This is where you come in, playing the role of one of the 'Chosen'.

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