Gamepot has announced that Wizardry Online has officially entered into its open beta phase of development in Japan. So successful is the open beta, the team has had to add extra servers to accommodate over 100,000 registrations on the first day.
Gamepot is anxious to bring Wizardry Online to North American users and is actively seeking publishing partners.
Developed in conjunction with Japanese game studio Headlock Inc., Wizardry Online offers multiplayer features new to the Wizardry series, including party play and player versus player (PvP) combat, while maintaining the classic style for which the series is beloved. Hardcore gamers will revel in the return of the complex dungeons that punctuated earlier iterations, and soon will find that the game is fraught with significant peril: Wizardry Online features permanent death, in which player characters can be removed from the game upon dying, creating a more immersive experience.
