Vindictus First Look Preview

MMORPG.com's Jon Wood recently sat in on an introductory demo of the upcoming MMORPG from Nexon, Vindictus. Vindictus is perhaps better known as Mabinogi Heroes to players in the East.

At the 2010 Game Developers Conference, we had the chance to meet up with Min Kim from Nexon to get a look at the next product that the company is planning to bring to the North American market. What we saw was certainly outside of the norm for games developed in the East and then brought over to the Western Market.

The game, where it was originally developed, was known as Mabinogi Heroes, a prequel to the last game that the people over at Nexon localized for our market, Mabinogi and while it may be in the same family as its predecessor this upcoming game, titled Vindictus, departs significantly in both presentation and gameplay from what came before. Where the original Mabinogi made use of an anime-like art style that belied its combat based gameplay, Vindictus makes use of a more realistic style to really drive home the game's brutality.

Read the Vindictus First Look Preview.