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First Star Online Stratics (zip)

First Star Online Stratics is the world's first strategic party-based MMORPG. Build up your party of hirelings knights, alchemists, ninjas, rangers, wizards, necromancers, barbarians and dozens of other classes. Compete against other players, with up to 58 hirelings in a single battle. Compete in the gladiator arena to build up...

Tags: Party, First Star Online Stratics, Games, Servers, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-04-20

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Videos 2008-09-05

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Blog posts 2008-09-05

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