Requiem: Memento Mori
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| Developer(s) | Gravity, Gravity Interactive, Inc. |
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| Publisher(s) | Gravity |
| Engine | Gamebryo, Havok (physics) |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | MMORPG |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Requiem: Desiderium Mortis (formerly subtitled Bloodymare, Memento Mori and Rise of the Reaver) is a free-to-play horror-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Gravity in 2008.
Gameplay
Requiem: Desiderium Mortis is a action heavy horror MMO that features monster dismemberment and gore effects. Currently the only server is a open world pvp server, where players can choose to attack any other player not who is not an allied guild member. It features disturbing imagery evocative of movies like John Carpenters: The Thing, the movies of David Chronenberg and the artwork of H.R. Giger and Horror manga artist Junji Ito. Every 24 in game hours when the clock strikes midnight powerful and unsettling monsters appear in the game world surprising unprepared players with unexpected challenges. The players themselves can also transform into their race's Possession Beast form, granting them near immunity to all forms of CC and increased damage and stats.
It offers Multiple forms of PvP battles with one offering all players over powered and equally balanced gear, levels and temporary stat points. There is also an open world player killing system, where a player can register another as an enemy and attack them in most areas of the game. From the other players who threaten you, the horrifying Nightmare monsters and to the raid dungeons the game encourages cooperation between players to thrive.
The monetization of the game comes from its cash shop where players can buy skill resets, experience boosts, early game mounts and many other cosmetic and temporary bonuses.
The UI and combat is close to other MMOs of the late 2000's and early 2010's. It uses the Havoc physics engine to animate blood effects and creature limbs. The game is a bit unintuitive with its gameplay functions and character progression systems. There are parts of the game that seems to be mistranslated or uses confusing syntax. The crafting system is robust but does feature a confusing progression tree due to feature creep as well as a chance to lose equipment when you fail to upgrade it too many times which can be offputting.
Plot
The game takes place in a post apocalyptic steampunk world where mad science unleashed a great calamity that warped the planet and twisted the creatures; weakening the veil between the normal plane of existence and a bordering nightmare world akin to Clive Barkers: Hellraiser. The players are Temperions; reanimated dead bodies brought back without memories or souls via science and clerical magic to try and hold back the tide of unspeakable horrors and to protect the survivors.
Release
The North American site officially launched on February 26, 2008. FilePlanet began offering Closed Beta account keys for the NA/International Server on February 26, 2008, with MMORPG.com and MMOSITE.com set to offer beta keys on Friday, February 29. Closed Beta ended on April 17, 2008. It was extended from March 24.
The Open Beta phase started on May 15, 2008 and ended as of June 12, 2008. Pre-release started on June 16 for those who had purchased a subscription.
Requiem: Bloodymare was released on June 19, 2008. Requiem: Memento Mori/Alive was released on September 25, 2009. The game's official title has switched from Requiem: Bloodymare to Requiem: Memento Mori (USA) and Requiem: Alive (Korean).
Gravity Interactive (USA) acquired the rights and took over development from the Gravity (Korea) Requiem Development Studio in November 2013. An announcement was posted to the official North American web site [1] on 11/13/2013.
With the first significant update from the new development team at Gravity Interactive the game was given a new season subtitle and was released as: Requiem: Rise of the Reaver which launched on February 20, 2013 [2] Requiem: Rise of the Reaver web page background
The first significant update from the new development team at Gravity Interactive, titled "Daughters of the Frost Blade", was announced on 2/19/2014 at the official web site.[3] The "Daughters of the Frost Blade" Update included: (1) New Story Quests and a New Daily Quest Hub with numerous New Daily Quests (2) New World Boss: Queen of the Frost Blade Clan, Wintriness (3) New Accessories aimed at levels 87 and higher (4) New Xeons (in game crafting system components) (5) New Compounding Recipes (in game crafting system formulas) Requiem: Rise of the Reaver icon
The following significant update from the new development team at Gravity Interactive, titled "Rage of Voxyon", was announced on 8/18/2014 at the official web site.[4] The "Rage of Voxyon" Update included: (1) New Raid:Voxyon's Lair (2) New Raid Boss: Voxyon (3) Voxyon's dropable loot includes new Level 90 Armor Sets (4) New Quest Hub: Numaren Xenon Outpost includes New Story Quests for Level 70+ and New Daily Quests for Level 70+ (5) New Enchantment Xeons and New Compounding Recipes for Enchantment Xeons (for in game crafting system formulas) (6) Upgraded Mercenaries (summoned NPC ally system) with Temperion Models now vastly stronger and some will have gained new abilities (7) Field Boss Wintriness now has a chance to drop Frozen Compression Tokens (for in game crafting system formulas) (8) Various Bug Fixes for content released since the "Daughters of the Frost Blade" update Rage of Voxyon banner
As of August 2022 the game relaunched under a new name of Requiem: Desiderium Mortis and a new management team set to apply many bugfixes and quality of life changes.
Reception
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Requiem: Bloodymare received a 3 out of 5 from X-Play,[5] 70% from GamesRadar,[6] and 3 out of 5 from MMOHuts.[7]
References
- ^ "Requiem: Rise of the Reaver".
- ^ "Requiem Game Review". MMOs. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
- ^ "Requiem: Rise of the Reaver".
- ^ "Requiem: Rise of the Reaver".
- ^ "Requiem Bloodymare Review Videos". G4tv.com. 2008-07-03. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
- ^ Mark Asher (July 29, 2008). "Free to play, free to gib, free to grind". Games Radar.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Requiem Game Review - MMO Hut". mmohuts.com. Archived from the original on 2011-04-12.