Sega is boasting an electric lineup of new projects and heavy-hitter franchises.Let us take a preveiw on the one only MMOPRG.

The long awaited new title in the beloved Phantasy Star series is on its way! Phantasy Star Universe delivers a rich, ever evolving world and will provide hours of entertainment to both online and offline RPG enthusiasts. Single-player fans will embark on an offline quest as Ethan Waber, a 17-year old cadet intent on saving his sister from an invasion of mysterious life forces called THE SEED. While online players will create their own characters from a range of races, and then set off to explore all three planets in the Grarl solar system. Fans will travel with a squad of other adventurers, enter urban sprawls teeming with hundreds of other players, and build their avatars into powerful warriors.

News of Phantasy Star Universe?s existence is hardly fresh these days, but to longtime fans of Sega?s classic sci-fi RPG franchise, it represents the realization of a dream ? it?s the first Phantasy Star with single-player emphasis since Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast ruined the story-driven nature of the series for everybody.

It?s not a total regression to the roots, though. Phantasy Star Universe claims for itself action-driven combat similar in play to Phantasy Star Online, and an online component that has about equal weight to the single player, making this the game that wants to be Phantasy Star for everybody. If Sega can pull off this balancing act of old and new, it could be on to something spectacular.

Adapted from next-gen.