Sega Announces Shenmue Online

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday August 3, 2004 @03:57AM 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."

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Oh god... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-03 04:21 · Score: 2, Insightful

...please Mr. Suzuki, FINISH the single-player story first! I'm in the minority that LOVED Shenmue, but I want to see it ended properly before branching out into something new like this...

*cries, but I'll still buy it*