Land of Chaos Online (LOCO)

Land of Chaos is a free online computer game that will be released this summer by Danal and Burda:ic. It is a mix between a role playing game (RPG) and a real time strategy (RTS) giving players the opportunity to choose among 30 characters, with different abilities. The two sides of the game will be called Army of Hell and Forces of Nature, each will have classes that will resemble warriors, monsters or petite.

Burda:ic GmbH is a German publisher who is specialized in free online computer games; it released known games as Florens, Avalon or Fantasy Tennis Heroes.

Need for Speed World Online (NFS: World)

Need for Speed World is a free online computer game, developed by Black Box and Electronic Arts Singapore. NFS World Online is announced for release this year, initially in Asia and then probably it will be released and be online also in the U.S and Europe (it would not take longer than several months).

Developers have said that NFS World Online will include more game modes, as licensed cars or licensed car parts. They did not give many details yet, but it seems that cars can be customized and improved in a virtual garage.

Besides Need for Speed World Online, Electronic Arts has announced two more titles:

NFS: Shift (PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP) and NFS: Nitro (Nintendo Wii, DS).

Fifa Online is a free computer game announced by Electronic Arts, which will be released this year, first as a beta version. Fifa Online will be launched under EA Games banner, being licensed 30 leagues, 500 clubs and over 15000 footballers.

Gamers will be able to take their favorite team and bring it in the league of the “big teams”, with the opportunity to transfer and to develop the facilities of the lands and training bases. Even if it is a “free to play” game, with the help of the micro-transactions, gamers will be able to “enrich” the accounts of their virtual teams. After announcing the game Need For Speed World Online, the EA SPORTS FIFA Online is the second title of the excesses of the Electronic Arts, which will have a free edition like I said above.

Allods Online

Allods Online is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Game developed by Nival Astrum which will be distributed free by Gala Networks Europe via Gpotato servers. It is cataloged as a Fantasy Space Opera and it had its development budget approximately $12 million.

In this game, players will have to choose between 2 factions, 6 races and 28 classes. Developers have announced that the game will have over 1500 quests, PvP battles, a manufacturing system and dozens of islands Astrology (Allods).  Also, players will be able to own a pet or to participate at flying ships’ sailing.

Allods was created using an engine developed in-house, and it is expected some time soon this year.