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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."

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

    As long as I can look for sailors.

    Do you know where I can find sailors?

    --riney

  2. 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.

  3. The Shenmue Experience by raygundan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have never laughed so hard. The translation was "technically accurate" but got the nuance all wrong, and made it look like you were on an urgent hunt for some oceangoing man-love.

    Toss in raising a kitten, the interminable forklift job, great graphics, bizarrely detailed convenience stores (look! I can buy sardines!), and a great realtime fight system-- and you have the love-it/hate-it game that is Shenmue. Parts of it were brilliant, and parts of it were bad enough to make grown men call out for sailors.

  4. 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.