Nexon launches Vindictus site, trailers, and screen shots

Jul 26, 2010 by Dan Taylor    No Comments    Posted under: Games

While this year’s E3 convention in Los Angeles certainly seemed to focus not on what games we’d be playing this coming year, but rather on how we’d play them, I personally thought that there were a number of games that we under-covered in the Games media. Don’t get me wrong, I too am quite excited about the Microsoft Kinetic, as well as what Sony’s Move will look/feel like, but if I don’t have an attractive title to play with, it’s all a moot point.

One such title that I thought was a bit under represented this year was Nexon’s upcoming free-to-play Vindictus. Yes, I realize that this is a PC game and that Kinetic or Move have nothing to do with it, and it’s also no WoW killer, but all the same….

Vindictus is a free-to-play action MMORPG that’s built on Valve’s Source Engine. Don’t worry if the jargon throws you. What this means is that it’s a role-playing game that works on top of a really good engine driving it. Being a physics based multiplayer online game, in game objects react just as they would in the real world, i.e. gravity applies, and the Valve Source Engine allows for physical real world interactions such as shattering objects, throwing rubbish around, piercing armor with spears, etc. You know, just your average suburban lifestyle.

Teased at E3, Vindictus now has it’s own official platform, complete with a producers’ blog, a treasure trove of media, and an overview of what to expect come launch day.

A video released concurrently with the site launch features Fiona, one b@d @$$’d chick you’re really rather not upset. Fiona is a strategic female warrior depicted wearing heavy armor, complete with obligatory sword and shield. As a warrior, Fiona can wear heavy armor early on in the game, and through a series of leveling, can wear plate armor at later game stages.

As a point of reference and perhaps clarification, here’s the Vindictus storyline video.

And last but not least, some selected screenshots from Nexon’s upcoming Vindictus.