Prepare yourself for a next-generation sandbox experience that's set to push the genre to new limits with the upcoming release of the highly anticipated, Shards Online. Its developers, Citadel Studios, are breaking away from the conventional approach to quests, levels and grinding, instead implementing a variety of features that help to create a truly evolving virtual world that promises endless hours of exciting interaction for gamers around the world.

Shards Online is set in a vast multiverse that is plagued by a plethora of competing deities and demigods, each fighting for the right to claim the land as their own. The game boasts a huge variety of worlds that are just waiting to be explored. Each of the worlds in Shards Online have been created with their own set of rules, unique mechanics and incredibly detailed histories. As a player you will explore these impressive shards and seek out their treasures, emerge victorious from their challenges and learn new skills and abilities from the civilizations that appear.

Shards Online also boasts an intriguing NPC system that introduces non-playable characters as an evolving element within the gameplay world, as opposed to moving targets that offer very little levels of interaction. The inhabitants of Shards Online will share gossip about an adventures recent exploits, discuss the latest happenings in nearby worlds, or just head to the local pub for a chat with other NPC's. This level of freedom creates a world that truly feels alive.

Shards Online delivers a unique approach to combat, removing the traditional rock-paper-scissors approach that has plagued the genre for so long. Fights are designed to be lengthy tests of a players ability to adapt and counter as a vast array of skills and abilities, available to all players, provide almost limitless potential in battle.