For male characters, at this point, all you choose is how they stand.

Then you move onto a “body type” screen, which, if you’re playing a female character, boils down to choosing between a woman who stands “sexy,” a woman who stands “cutely,” and a child. You start by choosing a class from the 6 available: Vanguard, Blademaster, Occultist, Spiritshaper, Gunner, and Swordmage. The NPCs tend to fall into the “lanky, beautiful, super-human” basket, but character creation is robust enough to make a unique character that lets you stand out. The visuals are stunning, so much so that I caught myself stopping to take photos of the background.

Where Revelation Online looks like a bag of cheese puffs on the outside, inside it is an all-you-can-eat buffet. The initial expectation can easily be that these things come together to make a pay-to-win disaster like many other free MMOs. It’s beautiful, plus it has flight early in the game, auto-pathing for quests, strange costumes, and hilarious trope-filled characters. This is apparent straight away as the build contains about a tenth of the English translation it needs, with some Russian thrown in for good measure.Īt first sight, the upcoming free-to-play MMORPG from Chinese developer NetEase feels like junk food. It’s Revelation Online’s first closed beta test, and publisher My.Com stresses it is more of a test on servers and hardware than anything else. Having already been pushed back a week, Revelation Online has finally entered closed beta in the West.

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