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Nexon America Announces Combat Arms Beta

North American MapleStory publisher Nexon America has announced a closed beta for Combat Arms, its free-to-play online first-person shooter featuring persistent, customizable characters, for May 30th, with a full release planned for later this summer.

Players will not only be able to personalize their soldiers, they'll be able to modify their guns and equipment, accumulate in-game currency and experience points, and track their performance against others in the Combat Arms community. In addition to its free-to-play model, the game will have low system requirements, furthering its accessibility in a traditionally hardcore space.

The closed beta test will run exclusively at FilePlanet.com for one week beginning May 30th. Once the game is released to the public, Combat Arms will receive regular content updates, including new weapons, gear, maps, and more free game modes.

Said Nexon America's vice president of marketing Min Kim: “Competition in video games among friends is always fun, but Combat Arms takes it to another level by letting gamers frag for free. Combat Arms delivers all the great socialization elements found in other popular Nexon Games and presents them in one of the most popular gaming genres in North America.”

Comments (20)

dan:

What is the catch? How are they making money?

pogo:

Probably loads of advertising in game. It's how most free games are funded

emo:

advertising or micro transactions

Michael:

Free to play. This gun is a $4 microtransaction. Oh? You want bullets? $2 a clip please. Kevlar? $10.

envoyer cette jeu a moi

Kerk:

They make their money off of things that you can buy with actual money for the game.

Splat:

Nah, they probably have a cash shop in it like most of their other games, so you can look like a daisy when you kick other player's butts.

hav:

can u send me a website to down;pad this combat arms
in my email or mysacpe id

rico:

when does this game come out cuz i want to play it bad

stephen:

were do i download this game
?

url is right there for u to click and download combat arms open beta. ur welcome =]

bryan:

this game is looks awesome. play it. love it.

gerak3669:

Can't be played no North America so sad :(.

I have downlaoded it installed but can't play :(

They should make it available to all...:(

junior :

wen i want to login it seed that error to try again later

Lee:

I've been playing Combat Arms for about a month. Yes, you can purchase currency. But I was suprised to find out its relatively easy to earn cash in game. You get alot of cash for every rank you go up.

The hook-up is that when you run out of ranks to go up or when it becomes harder to rank up, cash is hard to come by. And by that time you're addicted... so you start paying. Unless your cheap like me.

Andrew:

i cant use weapons. tell me what the problems may be and what to do to stop them from happening

Whicked:

great game couldnt ask for a better free multiplayer FPS !

joe:

nah im playing the game now. it is FREE 100%. the way they make money is ppl can use real money to buy game money. u cant buy super guns or anything, just use real money to get game money and u dont have to do that either cuz if u playin at all, ur earning money

hal:

I just started plaing this game its better than a lot of other games that i have paid for.

castin wagner:

does it work with mac

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