Players can choose one of seven character classes: Elf, Dark Elf, Knight, Prince, Magician, Dragon Knight, or Illusionist. Lineage's stat, monster, and item system was originally largely borrowed from NetHack with MMO elements added. In May 2011 NCSoft announced that due to unprofitability the North American Servers would be shut down on June 29, 2011. Lineage Eternal, a sequel will be set after Lineage and will be the last game in the Lineage series. To date, the Lineage franchise has attracted 43 million players. Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle, a «prequel» set 150 years before the time of Lineage, was released in 2003. Lineage features 2D isometric-overhead graphics similar to those of Ultima Online and Diablo II. The game was designed by Jake Song, who had previously designed Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, another MMORPG.
It is most popular in Korea and is available in Chinese, Japanese, and English language versions.
It is the first game in the Lineage series. Lineage Download Free Full Game (Korean: 리니지) is a medieval fantasy, massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in the United States in 1998 by the South Korean computer game developer NCsoft.
