Gods and Heroes: Beta Rising

Perpetual's upcoming MMORPG Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising has been gaining a lot of support lately, and especially after last month's E3, when several websites gave it the "Best of Show" award - including MMORPG.com, who also commended the game with the "Best Graphics" award. Not too shabby, for a game that looked like this a year ago, and is now shaping up to something more resembling these latest screenshots we added today.

With momentum on their side, the devs are now announcing that they are getting closer and closer to kicking-off the official Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising beta program. Users who already have a Perpetual Entertainment Platform Account are automatically signed-up for a chance at getting into the beta. And if you don't have one, you can register right here. Word is there will be several stages of open and closed beta, and that some of these stages will also be filled with randomly selected PEP account holders.

"Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising features an innovative style of combat not seen in other online multiplayer games, courtesy of Perpetual Entertainment Lead Designer Stieg Hedlund, lead designer of the best-selling RPG Diablo II. Reminiscent of an Action/RPG, combat moves can be linked together and even include "finishing"-moves to provide a more dynamic, dramatic and visceral feel to battles. Squad-based combat is another unique aspect of Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising; players will earn and command Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in a variety of strategic groupings to form individual squads, create unique formations and implement combat tactics for these squads to execute on command, maximizing their power in combat."

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