The Atlantica Online team has sent us nine new screen shots they've released for their game which is currently in closed beta.

You can see our entire gallery, including the newest shots, right here

The NDOORS team has gracefully sent us five totally exclusive screenshots for their upcoming MMORPG "Atlantica Online". These shots are very exciting as they show parts of the game that we haven't yet seen .

You can see our entire gallery, including the exclusive shots, right here !

The NDOORS team has sent us nearly a dozen more new screen shots for their upcoming MMORPG titled "Atlantica Online ".

You can see our entire gallery, including the newest shots, right here !

With the closed beta ending at the end of this month, and official launch on the horizon, we felt it was time to sit down with the folks at NDOORS and discuss their upcoming title, Atlantica Online .  We chatted briefly with Peter Kang, CEO of NDOORS Interactive, and here's what we learned:

Allakhazam: Will players be able to explore the world like your traditional MMORPG? For example, the ability to swim in bodies of water freely and climb mountains, etc. for better views of the world.

Peter: Atlantica Online isn’t like traditional MMORPGs in that you can’t explore the world by doing things like swimming in bodies of water. The Atlantica world is unique in that it’s based more in reality, with the Earth’s continents being the same land masses in the game. Real-life locations are places players will have to travel to during the course of the game. Locales like the pyramids of Egypt and Bran Castle in Romania, which is believed to have been the home of Count Vlad of Dracula mythology, are a few of the places where players will have to battle enemies like mummies and vampires to find the fabled lost civilization of Atlantis. It’s a globe-hopping adventure and players will be able to explore many of the locations in-depth. But it’s a world that’s not completely fictional, with players getting to interact with places like the Great Wall of China and India’s Taj Mahal in a whole new way.

I’d also like to add that two of Atlantica’s features, the turn-based combat system and the ability to acquire mercenaries who help you in battle, are not the norm in MMORPGs, and help to distinguish our game further from traditional ones.

Allakhazam: How will Atlantica Online play in comparison to the more traditional turn based RPG such as Final Fantasy III, Chrono Trigger and Breath of Fire?

Peter: It’s true turn-based. You have up to 30 seconds to assign a move for your main character and up to eight mercenaries. Then your opponent has his time to make his moves, and you have to just sit and watch the impact those actions have on your characters’ health points. It alternates like that for the entire battle. There is nothing else dictating which move gets made when.

In the combat action, there are some strategic and spatial similarities to Chrono Trigger, in that you have your characters in a specific formation and how certain moves you make will attack and impact the formation of your opponent. But we think we’ve been able to put together an exciting and fast-paced brand of action. Our development team in Korea spent most of the three years it took to create the game on the turn-based system, and fine-tuning it for an online game.

For those of you signed up as registered users of FilePlanet, you can begin beta testing Atlantica Online , the new MMO from NDOORS, Tuesday, July 15th. Everyone else will have to wait until Friday, July 18th.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - July 10, 2008 - The closed beta for Atlantica Online will start on Friday, July 18. FilePlanet registered users will be able to enter three days before other beta testers on Tuesday, July 15.

MMOABC, MMOSITE, MMORPG and onRPG are giving away a limited number of account keys on a first-come, first-served basis. FilePlanet will distribute the majority of the accounts to their subscribers on July 15.

Atlantica Online is set in a parallel universe of our world that takes players through an arduous journey to unravel the hidden secrets of Atlantis. With its heavy emphasis on strategy, Atlantica was designed to stand out amongst the ‘cookie-cutter' MMOs. The strategic gameplay incorporated into the turn-based combat, mercenary and country management systems will appeal to strategy and RPG players.More information about the title and the beta program can be found at www.playatlantica.com.