The development studio Bluehole has been working on a new MMORPG for PC with Project W for some time now. Could we expect a blockbuster here like PUBG?
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, short PUBG, has made a huge impact. The battle royale shooter from Bluehole has struck a chord with players and turned out to be an immense success. Can the developers replicate that with their upcoming MMORPG Project W?
Not a pure fantasy game
There is currently almost nothing known about Project W. Kakao Games will serve as the publisher in Europe and the USA, and it is said to be a very large project. Kakao is behind the MMORPG Black Desert.
With TERA, Bluehole has already shown that they know their way around the MMORPG genre, and now they plan to use the accumulated experience to develop a new online role-playing game.
A newly surfaced image shows that Project W will apparently not be a pure fantasy game. Firearms will also be in use, and some kind of gun or mech is also visible.
The game therefore seems to be set in some sort of science fiction scenario. It may even be a mix of fantasy and science fiction, like the recently released RPG Elex from Piranha Bytes. That the blend of both genres can work is shown quite well by Elex.
Can Project W bring fresh air to the genre?
Project W is one of the few large MMORPGs currently in development. Therefore, MMO fans have high hopes for the project. Especially since Bluehole has proven with PUBG that they have a knack for what players want to play.
Maybe they will succeed with Project W as well, breathing new life into the MMORPG genre. Creating an evolution of the genre that offers something new. Just like PUBG did with the refinement of the battle royale mode for the online shooter genre.
The cooperation with Kakao Games is also promising. After all, Black Desert is considered the most interesting new MMORPG of the last few years.
It won’t be long before we learn more about Project W. The game will be presented at the G-Star 2017 game fair. The fair takes place from November 16th to 19th in Busan, South Korea.
Recently, we already speculated a bit about Project W, which is being developed as the next big AAA MMORPG.
