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Watch Mark Rein gives more in-depth details about APB

VGarabia.com "APB (All Points Bulletin) is an upcoming massively multiplayer online video game for Microsoft Windows based in urban sprawls and featuring two sides, Enforcement and the Criminals.

The game looks good as it uses an upgraded version of the Unreal engine 3.0. In the video below, you can see Mark Rein vice president of Epic games demonstrating an early build of APB at PAX 09."

Hit the link to see the video.
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hardcore1912 - 95 days 8 hours ago
1 - The game looks intresting
I'm very interested in this game, I know that the developers are giving the Xbox360 version a lower priority right now, but I want to play it on Xbox360, as I don't have a powerful PC to run this game :)
1.1 mingeater | 95 days 5 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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KionicWarlord222 - 95 days 6 hours ago
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Apb customization looks great .

I wonder how big a it it will be .
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Fishy Fingers - 95 days 6 hours ago
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"game will be released on PC in March, 2009"

Oops.
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Hoolock - 95 days 5 hours ago
4 - Shame
same boat as post 1, looks cool but i know Microsoft arent too good with MMO and the Xbox
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GameOn - 95 days 5 hours ago
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They already have FFXI and PSU if you can call that MMO.
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Jason 360 - 95 days 3 hours ago
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Champions Online is also comming to PC and 360, check this sweet gaming out :) http://www.gametrailers.com...
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Scar 360WA - 94 days 20 hours ago
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Hoolocks right though somethings going on with mmos and MS at the moment. The devs for APB, Champions and FFXIV have all said MS is holding up the 360 versions of the games. Maybe their trying to lower monthly fees for Gold users. Either way something is going on that that were not hearing the full story of.
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Kragerbone - 95 days 5 hours ago
5 - Unreal engine really showing its age on APB...
I think its time to put the Unreal engine to bed and get another more up to date engine to handle the physics and such for an open-ended, world encompassing game such as APB. This is, after all, a new MMO. The Unreal engine, even souped up a bit by the APB team, looks a lot tired to me. Like it's really showing its age. When was the last Unreal out... 5-6 years ago? And developers are still using it's engine? So sad.
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Jason 360 - 95 days 3 hours ago
5.2 - Kragerbone
He asked you to name one MMO that looks better than this... waiting. Thats because you cant, and if you think UE3 is showing its age then go look at some screen shots of Mass Effect 2 and Bioshock 2.
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pippoppow - 95 days 3 hours ago
5.3 - Blade and Soul
I think in the hands of the most talented Devs with the right focus, the Unreal engine can still do a good job in the visuals department. With that said I think when an engine reaches a certain age the confines of what the engine is capable of on current hardware specs may be limiting. APB looks good but not amazing which is to be expected compared to a single player game. I'm sure if Devs who use the unreal engine who are capable of making their own engine probably would have wound up with at least a slightly better version of the game. It's like L4D. It's using an old modified engine which would have been much better off with a new engine, especially since they are charging $60. Some games use a new engine to drive their games using the full capabilities of whatever platform they are on while others use and old engine that doesn't and still charges the same money. Of course there are other factors which go into the production of a product but people just want the best product they can get for their hard earned money. Just imagine a Halo, Gears and ME game with new proprietary engines. The games would most likely be at least a little better for it.
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Pandamobile - 95 days 2 hours ago
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Why the hell would they make another Unreal Engine in the middle of a console generation?

and Jason, Bioshock 2 runs on a modified Unreal Engine 2.
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bjornbear - 95 days 2 hours ago
5.5 - You asked for a better LOOKING MMO than what i saw?
Well...M.A.G =/ tbh...js my opinion tho, but it is also in final stages so no fair comparison, but you got the answer you were looking for =)
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dcbronco - 95 days 2 hours ago
5.6 - @Kragerbone
Obviously someone didn't read and just looked at the pretty pictures. It is a early build and will use the latest UE3. The latest version of the engine includes a lot of the new things that will appear in UE4.

@Pandamobile

Like the UE2, 3 has received constant updates. Go back and watch some of the video walk-throughs of GOW 2. That had an updated version and the engine will continue to be upgraded until they launch UE4.
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GameOn - 95 days 1 hour ago
5.7 - bjornbear
I don't think M.A.G is a real MMO. I don't really know much about the game but if, at the end of a match the server resets it's not a true MMO. It needs a persistent online world to be a true MMO.
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Major_Tom - 94 days 20 hours ago
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Blade&Soul(Also Unreal), Aion, Age of Conan besides this is an MMOG.

I could see Epic rolling out UE4 just for PC's tbh. Dx11 hopefully has more push than shove.
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Half-Mafia - 95 days 4 hours ago
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never knew APB ran on UE3.

they did a great job with the engine
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MajestieBeast - 95 days 1 hour ago
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If you think champions online is good mmo i have played free to play games that are better apb looks good tho.
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hobokiller - 95 days ago
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Care to share some of the F2P MMO's? Pretty please?
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Major_Tom - 94 days 20 hours ago
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Looks good, if they put selling drugs back into the game then I'm sold.
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