This traditional South Korean fantasy MMORPG is heading to Europe for this first time, and even though visually it looks like the sort of experience we’ve seen time and time again, RODE Online has one scaly ace up its sleeve: dragons. From the earliest levels, players can select and train their own flying dragon mounts which can be used to besiege castles, take out enemies and generally look rather awesome.
RODE (Rise of Dragonian Era) has a fully persistent world where two competing factions have allied themselves with the two opposing dragons, named Firea and Azuria, in order to not only battle for ownership of the land, but also to put down an emerging dark dragon threat. We’ve yet to see anything of this fiction, which makes us think its little more than a high concept excuse to facilitate dragon-on-dragon combat high up in the heavens, but we’re willing to go along for the ride.
Rose Online Gameplay 2015
There’s also a great deal of adventuring content on the ground too, providing more traditional fantasy gameplay with quests and raids, as well as the ability to own castles spread around the map. Make no mistake, this is the sort of fully featured MMORPG you’d expect from the East, but its flight-orientated combat definitely enables it to stand out.
RODE was first announced for our territory last year and its publisher is looking to launch it later this year. Nifty traversal powers and novel combat are something too few new projects focus upon, yet these are the strengths of this emerging property, and best of all it’s free-to-play. Fingers crossed the gameplay will hold its end of the bargain when we preview RODE later this year.
