- Platform: IBM PC Compatible
- Release Date: April 27, 2004
- Genre: Role-Playing
- Style: Persistent World Online RPG
- Similar Games: EverQuest (IBM PC Compatible), Dark Age of Camelot (IBM PC Compatible), Lineage: The Blood Pledge (IBM PC Compatible), City of Heroes (IBM PC Compatible)
Game Description
Thousands of virtual wizards and warriors converge in a fantasy online world to protect their clans, conquer their rivals, and together triumph over all who would oppose them. Following Lineage: The Blood Pledge, by most accounts the most successful online game of its time due to unprecedented popularity in Korea, this sequel offers a revised version of the massively multiplayer persistent world, designed not only to retain its nation of devoted fans but also to win new players from around the globe with its accessible play and state-of-the-art presentation. While the original relied on 2D graphics to bring its realms of swords and sorcery to life, Lineage II runs on a version of Epic's Unreal engine and features fully 3D characters and environments.Lineage II is designed to offer far more character customization options than its predecessor. In designing an avatar, the player chooses gender, race, basic attributes, a name, and decides whether the character will specialize in physical combat or magic use. More specific classes and skills are determined gradually, as the character gains experience and levels up. Player characters can be humans, elves, dark elves, orcs, or dwarves, each race with its own in-game culture and home starting city. Appearances change dynamically depending on the clothing, armor, and weapons a character has equipped. Pieces of armor exist as separate polygonal objects, and can change not only the color and texture but the physical profile of the characters who wear them.
While much has been improved over the original, Lineage's most popular and distinguishing features return in Lineage II. Despite the 3D presentation of the sequel's online world, character actions are controlled through a straightforward point-and-click interface, as in the earlier games. The blood-pledge system continues to encourage characters to organize themselves into clans, providing a sense of social structure for newer players as well as challenging leadership opportunities for higher level heroes. Castle sieges also remain an important part of play, culminating in intense, drawn out battles between scores of organized, human-controlled opponents.
~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide
Production Credits
Company 1: NCSoft (Korea); Lead Designer: Raoul Kim; Senior Designer: Hyun Kyu Park, Byeom Jun Lee; Sound Producer: Yong Jin An; International Publishing Group Manager: Tae Hoon Kim; System Designer: Hyung Min Lee, Jun Hyuk Choi, Sung Wong Chang, Jun Kim, Sung Hyun Baek, Yun Seek Kim; Level Designer: Wan Jin Lee, Sung Woo Cho, Hye Kyung Chung, Kyung Won Cjoi, Jae Hyuk Han, Kwang Lim Choi, Jin Young Joo, Dong Gun Lee, Jae Ho Huh; PD: James Bae; Lead Graphic Designer: Chul Woong Hwang; Senior Graphic Designer (Background): Yong Hwan Cho; Senior Graphic Designer (Character): Hung Hyun Woo; Schedule Manager: Tae Young Kwak; Modeling 1: Sung Beom Park, Jung Hwa Hong, Yong Hyun Kim; Modeling 2: Jong Hun Park, Dae Kyu You, Hyung Gun Choi, You Sung Lee; Original Drawing: Min Seob Chung, Hwang Kyu Kim; Integration: Sun Ja Kim, Hyun Ho Ahn, Ji Hun Kim, Hyun Kyung Kim; Interior: Hye Won Kim, Hye Jin Nam, Sung Man Ryu; Field Graphic: Yun Kyung Na, Sang Chul Ko, Hyun Gun Park, Sin Won Youn; Texturing: Ju Hee Lee, Eun Ju Lee, Jin Young Chung, Na Young Kim, Suk Hyun Kim, Sang Un Lee, Sun Wook You; Effecting: Sin Hyung Lim; Character Mapping: Ki Chan Kim, Dong Jun Ko, Jung Ho Lee, Hyun Sil Kim, Jun Woo Sin, Chang Sung Bae, Jun Hee Kim; Character Original Drawing: Jun Ho Chung, Min Kyu Song, Yun Kyung Kim, Hyun Ye Chung, Dong Hwan Kim, Sang Ryong Park; Character Modeling: Su Hyun Song, Yun Sung Byun, Gab Chul Cho, Sung Ho Park, Hee Jin Kim, Sang Do Kim, Jung Ha Kim, Eun Ju Chang; Character Animation: Young Jin Sin, Usung Lee, Won Kyung Choi, Dong Ho Lee, Jung Eun Lee; Motion Picture Original Artwork: Ju Hee Suh; Motion Picture Production: Jung Bin Park, Hun Hwa Choi, Hyun Yee Lee, Bong Sub Cha, Hyun Dong Suh, Ki Chan Kim, In Young Chung, Byung Han Chung; Lead Programmer: Yong Hyun Park; Server Part Senior Programmer: Gun Ho Lee, Ki Byung Chae; Server Part Programmer: Jae Gab Han, Sung Young Huh, Chan Lee, Hyun Chul Kim, Sung Eun Park, Kyung Suk Kwak; Client Part Senior Programmer: Hyun Tae Chung; Client Part Programmer: Woo Sik Chung, Jung Han Kim, Kil Hong Choi, Dae Wook Kang, Jung Woo Yang, Yo Han Song, Beom Ki Hong, Young Jun Kim, Seung Hyun Baek; Sound Designer: Hae Young Chung, Jung Hyun You, Woo Suk Lee; Publisher: Jonah Park, Ejay Lee, Chulkey Choi, Byung Soo Kim, Young Wook Huh; Company 2: NCSoft (United States); CEO: TJ Kim; President: Robert Garriott; Executive Producer: Richard Garriott; General Manager: Mike Grajeda, Kyuho Kim; VP of Marketing: Fred Schmidt; US Producer: Aaron Rigby; Associate Producer: Adam Davidson; Marketing Director: Greg Latson; PR Director: David Swafford; Sales Director: Dorothy Ferguson; Business Strategy Department Head: Young Mok Park; PR Manager: Joo Young Kim, Kate Park; Production Manager: Dorothy Sheehan; Web Manager: Chris Graf; Creative Services Manager: Hoss Fatemi; Web & Multimedia Developer: Seth Scoville; Product Marketing Manager: Mike Markin; Marketing Coordinator: Jenny K. Jeong; Marketing Content Support: Jang Han Jung; IT Management: Bryan Shin; Server Engineer: Somin Lee; Software Engineer: Dungheon Kang; IT Administrator: Peter Jarvis; Database Administrator: Joe Phillips; Systems Engineer: Greg Barwis; Web Communication Lead: Su Jin Kim; Web Planning Team Manager: Jin Soo Ha; Lead Project Manager: Ida Hong; Third Party Web Development: Braunstone; Community Coordinator: Daniel Chin; Content Writer: William Mull; QA Manager: Timothy Bell; QA Lead: Tim Tan; Senior QA Tester: Brian Knox; QA Community Coordinator: Lori Branham; Tester: James Ash, Mark Ball, Kelly Bickford, Lindsay Collier, Edward Furstenau, Scott Green, Delan Kai, Chris Maka, Michael Olgin, Athena Peters, Randy Pratt, Lee Ridout, Jeremy Robins, Jonathan Shelus, Chris Sivori, Hope Stevenson, Kyle Stewart, Rebkah Stone, Tosh Toida, Stefan Trefil; Compatibility Lead: Alaric Weigle; Compatibility Tester: Patrick Sun; Customer Support Lead: Patrick Wagner, Reneé Lasswell, Keith Pannell Jr., Matthew Tobin, Jimmy Prescott; Head Game Master: Ricky Ahn, Robert Chi, Charles Porter, Charles Flock, Stephen Tong; Game Master: David Galvan, Talid E. T. Ahmed, Sam Han, Philip Cimoch, Ian Weyna, Jason Ford, Dominic Infanger, Brian Hudson, John Williams, Joseph Riley, Erik Galvan, Scott Fitzgerald; GM Support: Vipul Kumar, Neeraj Kumar, Aashish Mehta, Abhey Bhanot, Sachin Dhawan, Jitesh Kapoor, Jaibardhan Singh, Bibin Joseph, Sudhanshu, Jyoti Kapoor, Vicky Arora, Naresh Chandra, Hemant KR Nigam, Jyoti Sehgal, Sonia Topwal, Kumar Abhishek, Jitin Sameer, Jasvinder, Gaurav Aneja, Ashutosh Kumar, Neeraj Malhotra, Manish Bhardwaj, Vipul Kumar, Rishi Kapoor, Kapil Chandra, Piyush Gupta, Ronald Michael, Swati Sharma
~ Keith Adams, All Game Guide
