E3 2009: A taste of what's to come in Runes of Magic

by Krystalle Voecks Jun 8th 2009 at 3:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, New titles, Patches, News items, Player Housing, Runes of Magic

We had the chance to sit down and catch up with the guys from Frogster Interactive as well as a few of the Runewaker Entertainment developers at E3. While we knew Elves were coming to Runes of Magic, we didn't have too many details of just precisely how they'd be implemented into the game. As part of our talk, they let me check out the never-before-seen area that the elves will be a part of, as well as showing off some of the new instance content and guild buildings that they're adding to the game.

This next chapter - The Elven Prophecy - will give players the option of playing the elven race (surprise) which starts out in a strange and wonderous new area. Beyond that, they're also working on PvP arenas, destructible guild buildings, and some new epic powers. Along with this sweeping update, the game is being updated with several graphic improvements including updates to things like water, and adding in some incidental sounds and music to start to help close the gap in regards to the dearth of sound issue many have decried Runes of Magic for. If you'd like a preview into some of these areas, be sure to check the gallery below, as well as the newly-released trailer showing off the Elven Prophecy, coming to Runes of Magic this September!

Gallery: E3 2009: Runes of Magic preview

Massively was on the ground in Los Angeles last week and covering all the latest E3 MMO news coming from the convention. Check out our breaking coverage (or all the Joystiq network E3 reporting) and keep your eye on Massively's front page for the latest developments.

Tags: chapter-2, chapter-ii, e3-2009, frogster-interactive, preview, rom, runes-of-magic, runewaker-entertainment, the-elven-prophecy

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Halldorr said on 3:07PM 6-08-2009

I was extremely impressed with this game when I gave it a shot. Sure it's A LOT like WoW but they add stuff so quickly, I have a hard time wondering why anyone (myself included) pays to pay WoW when RoM is out there.

Jack said on 3:26PM 6-08-2009

You pay to play WoW like:

1. Unlike RoM your friends are playing it still.
2. You still not give up on the never ending end game grind....
3. You running a guild or you just start playing it and still having fun.
4. You are in a guild and hope to get that raid slot one day...
5. You have a lot of money and want to support WoW and Blizzard.
6. You are a kid or Casual player and like to make 100s of alts!
7. Your PC/Mac can not run anything else....
8. You stick with what you known and fear changes.
9. Your playing a Ret Paladin and you having fun in pvp and pve.
10. You put your trust in Funcom or that WAR people and end up paying for AoC/WAR and got burned out on this games within your first month and you will never never be able to try a other mmo again! (that does not come with free tryout).

Steven said on 10:53PM 6-08-2009

Learn English, your post was horrendous. The first sentence didn’t even make sense. Let alone what followed.

Aganazer said on 3:31PM 6-08-2009

They are updating the water again?! I would have sworn they updated the way water looks right after release.

It is a good game. I wish they would update some of their current graphics and animations. Its a little too generic feeling right now. My friend actually quit playing because he couldn't tolerate the run animation.

I'll have to dust off my old battle chicken mount when this update comes out.

Jeremy S. said on 5:07PM 6-08-2009

Yeah, I've been playing RoM since day 1 of Open Beta(2 months+), and I still enjoy it. It's the MMO I play the most right now.

The E3 announcement said they are using a new graphics engine on terrain textures, buildings, and other graphical content to make the new areas as well as go over some old areas.

Hardy said on 11:59PM 6-08-2009

Mac support please.... I still don't understand why people don't make MMOs for macs.. I mean, WoW does, and I'm sure that was a huge boost to their numbers.

Callan said on 10:44PM 6-19-2009

I think gathering is more of a concern on the forums than incidental sounds. Either one click gathering or one click gathering every five or ten minutes, is whats desired first, rather than new sound effects.