Warrior Epic Preview: MMORPG Rewards You for Killing Your Character

by Jonathan Zungre on May 6, 2009 at 2:45 pm

Warrior Epic is the first RPG to reward players for letting their created characters die. Having your created character bite the dust brings one of two benefits: you can either infuse the dead character’s soul into a weapon or one of your living characters can carry their spirit and use it as a powerful spell. You don’t have to find your body and you don’t lose experience or progress. It’s Warrior Epic’s way to turn a negative into a positive.

Another negative that they turn into a positive has to do with money. Your money. Warrior Epic is a MMORPG that’s (almost) entirely free. No fee to download, no monthly fee to keep playing. The only things you’ll be paying real live money for are new outfits and cosmetic items for your characters, new stuff to pimp out your castle and health potions. That last one’s a downer, I know, but as of when we did this preview, they were only supposed to be around 5 cents for a bunch.

To offset that cost, Warror Epic is giving every player a castle with two main areas to use, the stable and the Sanctuary. The Stable is where you create not one but multiple characters, any of which you can take out on missions. The Sanctuary is where the spirits of your characters go after they die in battle. Did you lose your sweet level 20 pit fighter in that last quest? Don’t worry you can revive him to land of the living for a fee (not real money). But if you don’t want that sucky level 1 mage anymore then put that loser’s spirit into your pit fighters sword. The after death options are quite a neat innovation.

The Castle can be stylized and modified to fit your liking. You can change the pillars, the lamps, the walls, add new rooms like a pitfighters arena and even buy little pets. These all cost real money but the options are very much available and attractive if you want to spend the funds.

Warrior Epic is an MMORPG that was created for the gamer that has a lot of time on their hands but not a lot of money, so the price range of purchasable items, costumes and castle decorations will be around 5 cents up to 3 dollars. With all the interesting options it brings to the table, and the fact that it should run on almost any PC, Warrior Epic looks like it could be worth the precious dollars of your monthly allowance or the precious hours after your commute home. Check it out in the closed beta now.

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