Exteel Interview (con't)

FiringSquad: What can you tell us about the graphical features for Exteel?

Sang-In Lee: The art design for Exteel incorporates sleek futuristic designs and bright, vivid colors. The robots are humanoid in form, and blend Eastern and Western aesthetics. The action is high-speed and dynamic, and draws heavily from Hong Kong cinema. Finally, the movements are fluid and smooth, and the players feel in direct control of a massive avatar, rather than trying to wrestle with a heavy tank.

The backgrounds and maps were also designed to be exotic, alien, and striking. Settings range from futuristic cities, beautiful deserts, high-tech fortresses, alien spaceships, and so on. The details are scaled to the size of the robots, but are familiar enough to be recognizable. Different players will have different reactions to the graphics, of course, but these are the ideas we wanted to express to the users.


FiringSquad: Since the game will be free to play, how will NCSoft support the game? Will additional mechs and weapons be provided for a fee?

Sang-In Lee: NCsoft is still working out details of how the game will be supported here in North America and Europe. The games will be free to download and to play at the basic levels of gameplay. Other levels of gameplay and some additional content will be available for a fee.

FiringSquad: Are there any plans for a beta test of the game to be held at some point?

Sang-In Lee: Yes. We’ll have details at a later date.

 
FiringSquad: What is the current status of the game's progress and when will it be released?

Sang-In Lee: Exteel is live in Korea. We also plan to launch Exteel in North America towards the end of the year.


FiringSquad: Finally is there anything else you wish to say about Exteel?

Sang-In Lee: Exteel is essentially an action shooter that combines the strategy of an FPS with the deadly action of a fighting game, and adds a persistent character element. Each player’s pilot will grow in experience and rank through PvP battles.

Exteel combines elements from the FPS and action genre to bring players a unique multiplayer online game experience with high quality content that is free to download and play!  We hope the North American and European players enjoy Exteel as much as we did in creating it, and we are really looking forward to the launch in each territory.

We encourage players to stay tuned and periodically check our website (www.exteel.com). We’ll be releasing more information in the near future. Thank you.