The World launched as the first game to utilize fully immersive HMD, putting the player directly in the game, and the first MMO to launch since the world wide internet crash due the Virus Pluto's kiss. Many Legends rose in the game becoming World renowned players Like Kite and Blackrose. The setting was a beatuiful pristene world of magic and swords with sprawling fields and runic castles and dungeons. Many Rumors circulate of strange occurrences in the game causing health impacts in the real world but the CyberConnect Corporation quickly denied any such happenings. Seven years later a massive fire destroyed the the servers and data of the original The World. CC corp merged another unreleased title with concepts of the original game and released it as The World:R2. The game was set 100 years after the first, it had become much grittier and steam punk in some aspects, now populated with massive industrial cities and many new classes. Now the last installment of the worlds most popular MMO has just launched, CC corp returned many of the elements from the original world as well as including the well liked newer foundations. The main city was returned to the beautiful city of Mac Anu with southern area of the R2.