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Ragnarok Online
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Korean massive multiplayer online role-playing game
Game data
Metacritic 79- Released
- 2001-10-31
- User rating
- 4.15 / 5
- Genres
- Massively Multiplayer, RPG
- Platforms
- PC
- ESRB
- Teen
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Game details · IGDB
Ragnarok Online is a Korean MMORPG inspired by the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin. While rooted in Norse Mythology, the game also draws from influences of Christianity and Asian Cultures. Player characters inhabit a dynamic world where features and history evolve over time, reflecting the ongoing episodes in the RO timeline.
- Released
- 2002
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
- Engine
- AEGIS
- Franchise
- Ragnarok Online
- Developer
- Gravity
- Publisher
- Gravity
Key facts
- Developer
- Gravity
- Publisher
- Gravity
- Designer
- Kim Hakkyu
- Artist
- Lee Myung-jin
- Writer
- Lee Myung-jin
- Engine
- AEGIS
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Release
- KOR : August 31, 2002 NA : June 1, 2003 EU : April 15, 2004 AU : December, 2004
- Genre
- Massively multiplayer online role-playing
- Mode
- Multiplayer
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ragnarok Online (Korean: 라그나로크 온라인, Rageunarokeu Onrain marketed as Ragnarök, and alternatively subtitled The Final Destiny of the Gods) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Gravity based on the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin. It was released in South Korea on 31 August 2002 for Microsoft Windows. The game has spawned an animated series, Ragnarok the Animation, and a sequel game, Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second. The player's characters exist in a world with a player environment that includes NPCs (non-playable characters) that can be interacted with, and creatures spawning in maps that need to be defeated to level-up and to acquire items.
Gameplay
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ragnarok Online” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.