According to South Korean game company, Ntreev Soft, a side scrolling MMO titled Power Rangers Online will be coming out in the latter half of 2011.
A teaser site for the game is now online. It showed an image of Mahou Sentai Magiranger which is aired in South Korea as Power Rangers Magic Force in 2006 (and adapted as Power Rangers Mystic Force in the US in the same year).
Power Rangers Online will be released in South Korea, to be published by Ntreev Soft, known for creating Pangya, and Daewon Media. It will be developed by IRONNOS, creators of Crimson Gem Saga. It will be a side-scrolling action MMO. A closed beta is said to be on its way in the near future, with a full release by the end of the year.
For now, it is still unclear what series will be the basis of the game and how far will it stray from the said source. We don’t even know if it will really be a Power Rangers game. Korea has had both the Americanized Power Rangers and the Japanese original Super Sentai broadcast there, so the game could take either series as the template for the game. While some would argue whether or not that matters, the two series are different from each other, and choosing one over the other could affect how people view the game.
Why should we care? Well first, Ntreev Soft does have a US branch. Second, the Power Rangers series still goes on today, so does the Super Sentai Series. Third, Super Sentai does have a growing fanbase outside Japan nowadays so even if the game is based on the American Power Rangers or it's original Japanese Super Sentai series, a North American localization is still possible... and hopefully, it does happen. We fans want to try the game too.
Source: Dualshockers via GameRant
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