Posted on Feb 10, 2011 in Games PR

Paradox Announces New MMO Based on Colonial Salem

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Paradox Interactive today announced Salem, a free-to-play Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game based in the harsh world of colonial Salem. The game focuses on crafting and player colonies as players discover the new world in a sandbox like environment. The game is being developed by the team at Seatribe and is scheduled to go live in 2011 on the Paradox Connect platform.

Salem will offer a "controversial permanent death feature", which is a game mechanic that introduces risk. Players control their towns and will administer frontier justice in a Player vs Player (PvP) environment.

"Salem is a free-to-play MMO game that is going to add something new to the genre with the concept of generations rather than just a single character through the game,” said Tom Söderlund, Project Lead for Paradox Connect. “If your character is killed in the game, and believe me it can be dangerous in Salem, their descendent has the ability to pick up where your character left off. The concept of revenge and towns policing themselves and even sanctioning hits on griefers is going to be a really compelling aspect. We know we’ll see some interesting things when the community finally has a chance to play Salem later this year.”

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View the developer interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhWtl7IcEQ

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