Sony Online Announced Free Realms -- 07-02-2008
KeyWord: Sony Online,Free Realms,Development Date: 07-02-2008
Summary: The drawback to most of f2p games nowadays has been the production quality - websites are ugly or spammed with blinking advertisements, and the games are often poorly localized. Sony Online will overthrow this rule.
Game Title: Free Realms
Genre: Fantasy
Developer: Sony Online
Publisher: Sony Online
Status: Development
 

The drawback to most of f2p games nowadays has been the production quality - websites are ugly or spammed with blinking advertisements, and the games are often poorly localized. Sony Online will overthrow this rule. Sony Online's newest title in development, Free Realms, targets younger and casual players with a very clean, very polished, very elegant game that just might take off.

Once inside the game, players will find themselves in an exaggerated fantasy world where anything goes. The Shrek-like sense of humor is complimented by the whimsical look of the graphics. Cartoony misshapen trees adorn the spaces between over-inflated, gingerbread-like houses. It's like you're stepping onto the set of a claymation holiday special. The stylized art hides the fact that the engine is very simple; Free Realms should run great even on low-end machines.Sony Online hopes to attract younger players or casual players of either sex, so Free Realms is loaded with non-combat things to do. Players can build things, decorate their house, grow their own gardens, find and raise pets or play mini-games.

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Game DNA:

The game's concept is very much rooted in the popularity of titles like Diner Dash or Bejeweled - minigames playable from a web interface.


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