RIFT: Planes of Telara
RIFT is an MMORPG currently under development for PC (subscription based)
This looks like it is going to be quite an awesome game
The story begins with you being killed in some way... then being brought back to life by the gods. I am assuming that depending on what you were when you were alive determines what you come back as when you are resurrected. For example if you were a palace guard you might come back as a good person, or if you were a thief you would come back as an evil person... but that's just lore.
The game is being developed by Trion Worlds. They have a good number of ex-EQ2 developers working there. These guys know how to make a successful game.
A key part of the game are the rifts. Imagine them like Oblivion gates... merging two realms together. The landscape changes around them drastically (according to Massively it is very impressive and like nothing they have ever seen before). I think you can enter the rifts to close them off, or enter that realm and explore, fight, whatever... (update 30-Sep-2010: most people seem to think now that there will be at least 6 expansion packs, 1 for each rift, where you can go in to the rift and explore that plane... who knows how deep they will go or what is inside them!)
For more information, you will want to check out this Massively article:
Massively's hands-on with Rift: Planes of Telara's dynamic content
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but I'll be frank and say I've seen releases from top-tier companies that were far less polished than this. Granted, we were a bit on rails during the Rift testing, but we got to play for several hours across several zones and instances. What I saw was polished and playable, and I was feeling completely comfortable with the game within about 15 minutes. If this is alpha, and content implementation continues at this pace and quality, I have high hopes for launch.
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It was fun to hear some of the Trion employees (who hadn't yet seen all of the characters we were running into) gasp with surprise at how amazing it all looked as the sum of its parts. They almost seemed shocked at their own handiwork. And maybe they should be -- I was similarly unprepared for the shock of seeing an NPC in game who looked identical to the impressive concept art on the site. Not since Guild Wars have I seen something like that!
And maybe check this video too:
Watch this video on Youtube.
And this video:
Watch this video on Youtube.
And a slightly older one too:
Watch this video on Youtube.
This is the most impressive video by far
Watch this video on Youtube.
Further info:
Game will be subscription based, not F2P. Saw a comment a while back saying that they didn't want to be compared to these F2P Asian MMO's (which all suck btw)
Official website
RIFT on Wiki
Aaron note: Of all the new games coming out soon - this is the one I will most likely subscribe to (over TERA, FF:XIV etc.)
