Expanded Game

Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst

ReleasedJul 15, 2004

PC (Microsoft Windows)

About

Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst, a port of the Xbox version, was released for Microsoft Windows in 2004 through digital distribution, featuring both Episode I and Episode II, and adding a new Episode IV, NPCs, quests, team system, and server-side saving system. The Phantasy Star Online titles are a sub-series of Sega's Phantasy Star series of games that began in 1987. With the exception of Episode III, the PSO games themselves are hack and slash role-playing games where the player slays monsters, levels up, buys new equipment, etc. The online Phantasy Stars differ from the previous games of the series by offering a real-time – rather than turn-based – approach to combat, seamlessly integrating this with exploration and plot developments.

Developer: Sonic Team
Publisher: Sega
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Themes: Action, Fantasy, Science fiction, Sandbox
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Perspective: Third person
Age ratings: ESRB T
Time to beat: 500 h completionist
IGDB rating: 90 / 100 (11 ratings)
Also known as: PSO BB, PSO Blue Burst