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SOURCES REPORT THAT SWORD OF THE NEW WORLD HAS DROPPED ITS MONTHLY FEE!!

Sword of the New World: Granado Espada revels in a world that is novel in the realm of massively multiplayer online games. Rather than high fantasy, science fiction or even a world of plunder and piracy, Sword of the New World takes players to the colonization and exploitation of the New World, when fortunes were made by those brave enough to travel across the Atlantic and wrest wealth from the rocks and soil, or presumptuous enough to simply take that wealth from the native population.

Of course, the world of Granado Espada is hardly North America, and the game is not set in our world. Vespanola may be remarkably Spanish, and the games style, decidedly 17th century Baroque. But the mythical beasts that populate the land arent simple groundhogs – theyre the usual nasty fodder from fantasythemed MMOGs (including my favorite lowlevel creature, the crocodiles that jump around on rear legs). Professions such as musketeers and scouts are supplemented by elementalists. Oh, yes, and rather than wearing homespun garments and furs, nearly every character is dressed in elegant and courtly costume, save those in dragonbone themed bondagestyle gear, or the way every female character is showing as much cleavage and hosecovered leg as possible.