Neo Steam – New Steam Punk MMORPG
June 26, 2008 | Games | Comments OffMMORPG Neo-Steam from HanbitSoft is proving to be very popular amongst gamers in China and Japan, and its global service is set to begin with the Open Beta Test on the 20th of this month. Now let’s take a look at HanbitSoft’s aspirations for global domination with ‘Neo-Steam’.

HanbitSoft’s MMORPG Neo-Steam is commencing its global service with the Open Beta Test on the 20th of this month. Let’s take a close look at Neo-Steam, a game which is very popular in China and Japan for its unique story background.

Around the World in 89 Days, Laputa: Castle in the Sky and Future Boy Conan were the quintessential animations of the 70′s and 80′s. All of these animations were based on ‘Steampunk’ and Neo-Steam also has Steampunk as its story background. Here, Steampunk is a term derived from the term ‘Cyberpunk’, which depicts a future that changes from the influence of electronic/information technology, with the word ‘cyber’ replaced by ‘steam’ as in steam used in steam engines.
The concept of Steampunk applied to this game has created the Neo-Steam system which is a limited resource, and the user can utilize the force called ‘Neo-Steam’ to progress through the story.
Neo-Steam, which has intensively utilized the concept of Steampunk, is showing high quality overall. The quality of the graphics texture may be somewhat regrettable but a sense of distance is given through the blur processing, and despite the texture quality being relatively lower than other games of recent times, the graphics concept is making up for this shortcoming.
However, the battle system fails to differ from other games on the market, and the interface and balance could do with improvement. Through continuous development of its meritorious characteristics and improvements in its weaknesses, Neo-Steam will be able to take the lead in the fierce competition between MMORPGs armed by its unique game concept.
For client download and further details of Neo-Steam Global, go to the official homepage of Neo-Steam Global (www.neosteam.com). Client download is also available on Game & Game, the global service platform site of Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency (www.gamengame.com); Mmosite, a foreign site on games; Gamershell; Atomicgamer and Cgenetwork.





