Mortal Online Announced

A small Swedish development company called Star Vault has announced that they're working on Mortal Online, a new fantasy MMORPG that hopes to offer gamers something different. They want to have a first-person perspective, a real-time combat system, and, I assume, an open PvP system. The game will use the Unreal 3 graphics engine and Star Vault is aiming for a 2009 release date. "Your skills as a player combined with the skills of your character will determine the outcome of any PvP or PvE fight. In the first person perspective of Mortal Online you virtually perform every action your character does – there is no such thing as automatic combat or your character doing the job for you. Aim and strike anywhere you want, and experience your characters combat skill increase as well as your own."

The skill system does sound a little unusual, but a lot of what they have planned sounds remarkably similar to Darkfall Online.