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"Seven Days World" leads the way, taking stock of NetEase's open world games

2024-08-06

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Open world games are one of the most popular game genres today. These games are extremely free, with very broad maps, numerous explorable areas, a large number of interactive objects, and rich plot lines. As a domestic game giant, NetEase has also taken a step further in the layout of open world games, covering themes such as martial arts, wasteland, and the second dimension, and the categories are also flourishing. In this issue, Xinyoujiang will take stock of the games that NetEase has laid out in the open world field. Come and pick your favorite~

Seven Days World

"Seven Days" is a supernatural open world survival game developed by Starry Studio under NetEase. Its grotesque and weird style is particularly different from the current open world games, and therefore it has a considerable popularity.


The background of the game is set in a wasteland after a global disaster. In this world full of dangers and opportunities, players will play the role of transcendents, surviving and building in an environment ravaged by aberrations. The first task facing players is to explore the wilderness, collect resources and find a suitable place to build their own territory. The game uses physical strength, hunger, sanity (san value), and hunger and thirst as the four major survival attributes to truly restore the survival experience. At the same time, the game provides a wealth of construction options, and the construction development system conforms to scientific settings. Players can carry out diversified construction and layout according to their own strategies and preferences. Buildings are not only for defending against the attacks of aberrations, but also for improving survival efficiency and living comfort.


The Legend of the Condor Heroes

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is an open-world adventure martial arts RPG game developed by NetEase with the official IP license of Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes Trilogy". Based on Jin Yong's original work, this game has cleverly supplemented and expanded the main storyline, and the advancement of the storyline will be completely determined by the players' own choices; the seamless large map is also full of rich exploration content.


The plot structure of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" innovatively breaks through the single linear narrative framework. With the multiple perspectives of the four main characters, Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Yang Kang and Mu Nianci, it leads players to switch perspectives freely and appreciate the charm of the ups and downs of the story. At the same time, a variety of decision nodes are carefully implanted in the game chapters. Each decision made by the player will trigger the butterfly effect and affect the future direction of the plot. In addition, the martial arts system of this game is also very free. The public beta version provides a martial arts system with nearly 400 moves, allowing players to freely match and create their own unique schools. Whether it is the swordsmanship of Quanzhen Sect, the palm method of Peach Blossom Island, the stick method of the Beggar Gang, or the poisonous skills of White Camel Mountain, players can experience them one by one in the game.


Sixteen Sounds of Yanyun

"Yanyun Sixteen Sounds" is a historical martial arts theme open world MMORPG game developed by NetEase, which will be officially launched in 2024. This game changes the general gameplay of the game, chooses to stop the war with the pen, returns to the essence of Chinese culture, and brings a plot blockbuster with a strong sense of history; through the Chinese puzzle full of metaphors, it writes the true martial arts bones and blood.


According to official news, the open world map of "Yanyun Sixteen Sounds" will be larger than 20 square kilometers, and the huge game map will be filled with a lot of content. Among them, the single-player mode will include at least 150 hours of game time, and more single-player game content will be released in the form of DLC after the game is released. In the multiplayer mode, there will also be more social and competitive experiences, multiple large complex levels, a large number of exploration puzzles and large-scale multiplayer online content. The game can even accommodate thousands of people online in the same area, and players can also carry out large-scale "script-killing" role-playing games. These two modes do not interfere with each other and can be switched at any time.


"Against the Cold" Mobile Game

"Ni Shui Han" is NetEase's first martial arts open world mobile game. In the game, players will be in a grand martial arts open world, adventure in the beautiful landscape of the Northern Song Dynasty, and experience the real and vivid fireworks and love and hatred in the rivers and lakes.


In the mobile game "Against the Water", players can experience a variety of gameplay, including dungeon monsters, competitive confrontation, adventure exploration and many casual gameplays. Each player can choose the game mode and gameplay that he likes or is good at, and each set of core gameplay modes can get the same rewards or more than 80% of the vast majority of rewards. The game has no fixed daily tasks, which is easy and burden-free, allowing players to truly freely choose their development path. Whether you are a PVE, PVP or PVX enthusiast, you can freely choose the gameplay content you like in the mobile game "Against the Water" without having to force yourself to play content you don't like for rewards.


Broken Land

Broken Lands is a supernatural open-world adventure shooting game developed by Fomalhaut, an independent studio under NetEase Games. The story is set in a desolate ruin in the future, where wanderers start their own adventure in a fragmented world. According to official news, the game will soon start unlimited paid deletion testing, supporting iOS, Android and PC multi-terminal interoperability.


Unlike other shooting games, this game focuses more on the PVE shooting track, and has made innovations in both the genre and the gameplay, creating a unique Chinese wasteland open world. The oriental soundtrack, the characteristic Chinese-style buildings, NPCs and monster images all have a wonderful chemical reaction with the classic wasteland elements. The game's combat system is a very standard third-person shooter. There is no professional positioning in the traditional sense, but different combat methods will be developed according to the type of firearms. At the same time, players can also experience a variety of combat gameplay such as giant BOSS battles, characteristic copy levels, classic bunker shooting, large map exploration, gang and partner collaborative operations, and the setting of genres and talents will help the wanderer grow into an outstanding doomsday warrior.


Codename: Infinity

"Codename: Infinity" is the first two-dimensional urban-themed open world RPG game developed and produced by Naked Rain Studio under NetEase. The official website reservation activity has now been opened and it is expected to be officially tested in 2024.


In the game, players will become an ace investigator codenamed "Infinite Trigger", freely traveling to every corner of the world, exploring various cities, making friends of all kinds, and jointly dealing with abnormal phenomena that threaten human peace; or enjoying city life with partners and leaving unforgettable moments. At the same time, players are also given the ability to swing and climb walls similar to Spider-Man, which is more in line with the fantasy style setting of the game. According to the development team, players can obtain high-rare props such as special weapons in the map or main line, and emphasized that they do not need to be obtained through card drawing. The developers hope to bring players "an experience closer to a stand-alone open world game."