WildStar (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Carbine Studios |
| Publisher(s) | NCSOFT |
| Director(s) | Mike Donatelli Matt Mocarski |
| Producer(s) | Jeremy Gaffney |
| Writer(s) | Chad Moore |
| Composer(s) | Jeff Kurtenacker |
| Engine | Proprietary |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Online role-playing game |
| Mode(s) | Online multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (PC) 80.52% |
| Metacritic | (PC) 82/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| G4 | N/A |
| GamesRadar | 3.5/5 |
| IGN | 8.7/10 |
WildStar is a fantasy/science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing game that is developed by Carbine Studios, published by NCSOFT and was unveiled on August 17, 2011 during Gamescom.WildStar takes place on the fictional planet Nexus, where a mysterious and powerful race known as the Eldan have disappeared, leaving behind a wealth of technology and secrets for players to explore.
The game was released on June 3, 2014 with a subscription and later changed to free-to-play on September 29, 2015. While it is no longer required to pay for a subscription, those who do are "signature" members, getting a few bonuses such as increased experience/currency gain.
The Eldan, a highly advanced alien race, sought to create a perfect being called the Genesis Prime through the Nexus Project. This being, whom the Eldan named Drusera, seemed kind and benevolent, and was capable of shaping reality as she saw fit; shortle thereafter, the Eldan realized that their creation was less than perfect: Drusera contained an alternate, malicious personality which they called the Entity. They attempted to destroy the Entity using a device called the primal disintegrator. However, they were unsuccessful, and in retaliation the Entity annihilated all Eldan on the planet Nexus. Distraught over her failure to save the Eldan, Drusera then imprisoned herself (and by extension, the Entity) away.
Before their sudden extinction, the Eldan had sown the seeds for an intergalactic empire; they had contacted humans, native to a planet called Cassius, and assisted them in forming a mighty civilization which would span galaxies and ultimately be under Eldan control. After their patrons' disappearance the majority of the Cassian humans continued as they had done before, forming a religion around the vanished Eldan. A splinter faction, who would become known as the Exiles, rebelled against the nascent Dominion and fled into the stars; over the years they accumulated other races who had grievances with the Cassian Dominion.
Shortly before the beginning of the game, an Exile explorer rediscovered Nexus. Both factions attempt to lay claim to the world: the Exiles want a planet to settle and call home, while the Dominion see the world as sacred and see it as a holy obligation to take it for themselves. Unfortunately for both sides, Nexus still contains Drusera, the Entity, and many holdovers from the Nexus project, both mechanical and living; the factions wrestling for control of the Eldan world need to fight not only each other, but the world itself.
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