True Fantasy Live Online
Level-5 built Xbox's great cel-shaded online world, showed its towns and airships across two Tokyo Game Shows, and lost the project when voice chat and deadlines overwhelmed the partnership.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- public demo or preview
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A cancelled massively multiplayer role-playing game developed by Level-5 for the original Xbox.
Players would create stylised adventurers, join guilds, take jobs and explore a persistent fantasy world through Xbox Live.
Existence timeline
Microsoft and Level-5 present an Xbox Live MMO.
The studio builds cities, professions and network systems.
A large official trailer and demonstrations show the game.
Online communication and production targets prove difficult.
Microsoft and Level-5 end development.
Footage and print material remain the closest public trace.
Why it ended
Microsoft and Level-5 cancelled the project in June 2004 after delays and disagreement over whether it could deliver an innovative online experience.
Last confirmed trace
Official trailers, promotional postcards, screenshots and developer recollections preserve the advanced game.
What it left behind
Its failure ended Level-5's first relationship with Xbox and left an early console MMO gap that later generations filled.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to public_demo_or_preview under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.