Asheron's Call 2 Preview @ GameSpy

GameSpy has written up a preview of Asheron's Call 2, in which they give a sneak peak to the upcoming Halloween event that the current beta testers will experience. Here's something to get you started:

    The last feature the team wanted to show us was "mounts" -- creatures that players can use to travel across the landscape. You won't be traveling on a rail system across predetermined nodes; these are living animals that you can hop on and ride anywhere you could normally go."We want to show players who are new to the franchise just what to expect in a monthly update," says Troop. "In the next 12 months, we're dedicated to these sorts of things." The mounts we were shown were tentatively known as "barnes," and came in three visual varieties tying them to different races.