As the perfect excuse to remind you we're well excited for Crackdown dev Real-Time Worlds' new MMO, the Scottish dev has released a pair of concept art pieces of All Points Bulletin (APB).
It is, in a nut shell, an online game of cops and robbers, where player coppers get dynamically dispatched to apprehend player crooks whenever they commit a crime. It sounds fantastic.
The artwork here shows two characters in the game who could be either cops or crooks (we've no idea - they all look equally badass). The idea is that instead of levelling up in APB, your character basically changes appearance to show how wicked you are. So basically, if you're really, really good at APB, you'll probably look like one of the two in these pics.
According to Realtime, this is one way it's got around tedious level grinding, and it hopes that the console audience will find it a bit more appealing that killing orcs and rats for 70 hours. We wish them the best of luck.
The premise for APB may make it appeal to a different audience normally associated with MMO's.
The fun that I had playing Crackdown means that this along with Huxley are 2 MMO's that I can see myself playing (although paying how much? I dont know).
I'm plenty excited about APB. I'm not so excited about the prospect of there being a monthly subscription charge. If this is the case then my interest will just dissapear into the ether.
The premise for APB may make it appeal to a different audience normally associated with MMO's.
The fun that I had playing Crackdown means that this along with Huxley are 2 MMO's that I can see myself playing (although paying how much? I dont know).
I've played a fair bit of City of Heroes/City of Villains which held my attention for a fair amount of time.
I like the sound of this - not sure that it'll be something that I'd pay a subscription for (I don't get as much regular spare time to play these days), but I really like the fact that they're trying to get away from the whole 'grinding' aspect that seems to be in pretty much every other MMO.
Having said that, I'd love to know what it'll offer outside of the main premise of the game - these games really need to offer a lot of things to do in order to keep people coming back.
There seems to be a trend these days in flamboyantly homosexual character design.
Completely agreed. Those 2 look more like clowns than they do criminals. It almost looks like JRPG characters. I hope they look much more down to Earth in the actual game.
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Where the dickins do you get that from?
