Massively multiplayer online role-playing games let players create a character and then explore a persistent and colorful world with thousands of like-minded adventurers. Groundbreaking games like Ultima Online and EverQuest combined colorful graphics with role-playing features like fighting monsters, gaining experience levels, and outfitting your characters with powerful weapons and armor. But while these games were taking hold in North America, NCsoft's Lineage was taking the Asian market by storm. The game reportedly has millions of subscribers--a level of success that has prompted developer NCsoft to get to work on a sequel, which will be launched in North America this April.