Phantasy Star Online is an online role-playing game
developed by Sonic Team and released by Sega for the video game console, the
Dreamcast, in 2000. The game was created to show the Dreamcast’s power for
online gaming. In fact, the game features real-time combat.
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| Figure 1 - Phantasy Star Online |
This 3D graphics game was a great success, and therefore
they developed new versions to allow the game to be played on other gaming
devices apart from the Sega’s Dreamcast, such as Phantasy Star Online: Blue
Burst, released in 2004 for Microsoft Windows. The Blue Burst featured new
items and enemies and also had improved graphics and controls. A sequel of the
game was also released, called Phantasy Star Online 2, which was also released
for PlayStation Vita in 2012.
One was also able to play the game in offline mode, which
features four levels in different areas; forest, caves, mines and ruins. The
game also had a communication system where players could communicate with each
other since the game used an online system. Another option for playing is the
battle mode, where the players can attack each other.
The visual quality of the game was so good for that time
that even IGN (Imagine Games Network) stated that “This is among the best
games, visually, across all platforms. There’s really nothing that compares to
the visual quality of PSO.”
Bibliography:
Wikipedia.org, (2015). Phantasy Star
Online. [online] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasy_Star_Online
[Accessed 6 May 2015]
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