Soul of the Ultimate Nation finally makes its way to America

by Seraphina Brennan May 20th 2009 at 5:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, MMO industry, New titles, News items, Free-to-play, Soul of the Ultimate Nation

It's only two years late, but hey, we're not complaining! Ijji.com has reported to us that they've obtained the rights to publish Webzen's Soul of the Ultimate Nation in North America and that the game will release somewhere in late 2009.

Soul of the Ultimate Nation, called SUN for short, is a hack and slash MMO developed by Huxley creators Webzen. The game was originally slated to be published in North America in late 2007, but the game's status went silent and slowly slipped off of everyone's radar.

SUN features a quicker style of gameplay, more akin to a game like Dynasty Warriors than your standard MMO. To perform this feat, the game breaks the world map up into zones created by players in towns, very much like creating your own match in a first-person shooter. Players create these fields in order to hunt down monsters, solve missions, or complete quests.

Players can also take objectives to assult areas in a siege-esque manner, where many players create rooms to assault one objective. In these cases, successful and unsuccessful sieges affect how the other in-progress games play out, altering the difficulty of the battle to show the turning tide of one side winning or losing. The game does feature persistent cities where players can mingle, much like it's first-person shooter brother, Huxley.

Tags: action-rpg, dynasty-warriors, hack-and-slash, huxley, huxley-the-dystopia, ijji.com, siege, soul-of-the-ultimate-nation, sun, webzen, zones

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nadril said on 5:52PM 5-20-2009

I remember being amazed at this game back in like, what, '04? Totally forgot about it since then.

Holgar said on 5:58PM 5-20-2009

I pride myself on being well past the point where scanitly clad females fighting eachother in a fantasy setting interests me........

CindyL said on 10:23PM 5-20-2009

I pride myself on turning 30 this year being a woman and wholly enjoying these visuals myself, but whatever. :P

Can't believe this game is coming out finally, but since Huxley might release before then question is how many are still caring? o.o

anon said on 4:02PM 5-21-2009

i guess it's true...there are just no women working at these companies. the uniformity of out of control female armor (anyone remember plate nipple protrusions from a few weeks ago?) drives me insane - every - single - time -

Pingles said on 8:27PM 5-20-2009

I don't think those females are using their armor very effectively.

Utakata said on 9:56PM 5-20-2009

...I was more thinking of the "pinching factor" if I had to suddenly move very strategically in combat would be extreme painful if I where wearing that.

Verit said on 10:14AM 5-21-2009

The idea is to stun your enemy with your looks.

Roy said on 10:58PM 5-20-2009

these graphics are so detailed, the one on the left even has a cameltoe

THAC0 said on 11:35AM 5-21-2009

So where is the English website and when can I play it? The game is linked to a wiki page and not the games page.

devilsei said on 2:39PM 5-21-2009

Well the link itself is, but the source and picture used goes straight to Ijji's main site, where there is nothing said about the game, and the only common thing between the two is the developer, Webzin.

Colin Brennan said on 2:51PM 5-21-2009

Ijji.com hasn't updated their site yet. They just sent us the press release yesterday, so hopefully they'll update soon.

In the mean time, you can find gameplay on YouTube, if you search for Soul of the Ultimate Nation.