S4 League

S4 League is a third-person shooter MMO (massively multiplayer online) game. The four "S" from the title stand for: Style, eSper, Shooting and Sports. The game is a combination of shooter and sports simulator, with 3D anime graphics and techno soundtrack. The game has no background story. Players simply connect to a virtual world where they have to prove their skills while advancing through all 100 levels (Beginner, Rookie, Super Rookie, Semi Pro, Pro, S1, S2, S3, S4 - Master) based on the number of experience points they have accumulated after each game played. Players can create up to three characters of either gender. Before players can start a game, the character must have at least one weapon and one skill equipped. Players can choose between close-range, medium-range, long-range (sniper), mind, throwing and support weapons. Also, players can choose between active and passive skills. Costumes, items, weapons and skills can be purchased in the game store with PEN or AP. PEN is virtual money earned by playing matches, while AP is earned by paying real money (different methods, from credit cards to mobile text messages, specific to each country). Costumes, items, weapons, and skills can be permanent or rented (by the hour or day). Permanent items must be repaired after each use, rented items do not. Day-based items follow real life time, while hour-based items only count when playing. After creating their characters and equipping them with items purchased from the store, players can join a server based on country/language and then join a room based on game mode. A room can hold a maximum of 12 players: 6 players in Alpha Team and 6 players in Beta Team. There are different modes in the game: In Touchdown mode, the most played game mode, players must take a yellow bouncing ball called "Fumbi", run with it to the other side of the map and throw it into the red goal post. Fumbi can be carried by several teammates along the way. In Deathmatch mode, players must kill each other to lead their team to victory before time runs out. In Chaser mode, a virus takes control of a player who becomes overpowered and must kill the other players in the time remaining. In Captain mode, all players have crowns on their heads that give them a large number of hit points. Each team must eliminate all opponents with crowns to win, or at least have more teammates alive with crowns when time runs out. In Battle Royal, players must kill each other (there are no teams here). The player with the highest score is marked as the target (targets change constantly in a BR match). In Arcade mode, players follow the story of the game, where they have to kill the virtual bots and complete all the given missions, which are divided into chapters. Players can also join clans and play clan matches.