Justin "pseudopseudo" Heeren of Spawn Kill writes:
"It's a game older than most anyone can remember – cops and robbers. Right versus wrong. Good guys versus bad guys. I played cops and robbers myself on many occasions growing up; while it really wasn't much more than the game of "Tag" with a tacked-on storyline, it was always fun. There was always a certain thrill involved in narrowly escaping a cop's grasp, and you always felt a cool sense of faux righteousness every time you "captured" a criminal. As the years have passed, the game has shifted and changed – grown-up, if you will, right along with us. Realtime Worlds brings cops and robbers into the 21st Century with their massive new project All Points Bulletin."
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From DevilsMMO:
'It occurs to me that the MMO, as it currently stands in the industry, is something of a hit and miss affair. The average gamer, equipped with a console and every shooter ever made, generally only ever hears about the very biggest MMOs or, failing that, the MMOs that manage to crash and burn the hardest.
This was brought back home to me last week when I received a comment on one of my articles in which the commenter believed most MMOs are destined to fail, and fail quickly. Rather than take that statement at face value, I’ve been thinking through why that would be; what makes a game that has had thousands of hours of development hours plugged into it just fail?'
Scotland-based developers Realtime Worlds created the critically acclaimed Xbox 360 title, Crackdown. They seemed to have a bright future ahead. Unfortunately, that was not to be the case...
Splitkick: “What the hell happened?” That was my basic sentiment after playing about two hours of Brink on my PS3. I left PAX East 2011 proclaiming Brink my “game of the show” after playing a hands-on demo, and was hotly anticipating its retail release. So about nine weeks, and thirty bad reviews later, I was left wondering how something that seemed so promising in the recent past could now be such a sub-par product.
APB looks like it could be fantastic if they've played their cards right with it.
Sweet!