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Sega Announces Shenmue Online

Posted by simoniker on from the down-by-the-docks dept.

Thanks to Gamesindustry.biz for covering the news that Sega has announced Shenmue Online, a PC MMORPG, "being co-developed and co-published by Sega and Korean firm JC Entertainment", as part of "its new plans to enter the Chinese online gaming market." JC Entertainment are the Korean-based makers of Rush Online (formerly Priest) and the popular-in-Asia Redmoon, and the press release on Shenmue-Online.com states the game, part of the sometimes adored Dreamcast/Xbox franchise, will be a "MMO Action RPG in which tens of thousands of players will participate in the virtual world of Shenmue staged in China including Hong Kong in 1980's. Players, acting as militants, will use mysterious powers, kung-fu, Chinese weapons and Qigong in real-time fight-action."

7 of 31 comments (clear)

  1. Sailors? by jwriney · · Score: 4, Funny

    As long as I can look for sailors.

    Do you know where I can find sailors?

    --riney

    1. Re:Sailors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      What about raising kittens? Can I do that in this game as well? See this.

  2. Great idea by Pluvius · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even Miyamoto couldn't have thought up the concept of putting together the boringness of Shenmue with the tedium of MMORPGs. This will be a legendary game if the universe doesn't implode from the combination.

    Rob

  3. Two words spring to mind... by wandazulu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Forklift races.

  4. Leveling up by Craig+Maloney · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmmm... maybe after 5 weeks of playing, players will have enough skill to load a gun and play a tape.

  5. Re:Bets? by GamingEngineer · · Score: 1, Funny

    Considering that there aren't a huge number of Shenmue fans to begin with (maybe 11 of us, last I checked) I'm surprised they feel that a Shenmue MMORPG would bring them more revenue than continuing the series with Shenmue 3.

  6. Qigong? by Mighty+LoPan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Screw Qigong. I'm going to get myself a forklift and Fung Shui the crap out of Hong Kong with many many crates.