x360a writes: "APB has been described by Realtime World boss, Colin MacDonald, as the "the bastard child of everything we've been striving towards over the 15-20 years that Realtime Worlds, DMA and David Jones have been making games" and finally at this year's E3, we got chance to check the street style MMO in action. The title bases its foundations on what Realtime Worlds like to call the "three C's; creativity, conflict and celebrity," and these three C's form the foundation of the game.
The city you are thrown into has two classes of people; the enforcers and the criminals, and all you have to do is pick your side. The criminals will prey on the city and its civilians, and the enforcers will prey on the criminals. The criminals aren't invincible (or the enforcers for that matter) and can get arrested by the enforcers (which is harder to do because you have to incapacitate them with non lethal weapons and the action can be disrupted by fellow criminals, but it's obviously more rewarding) which can take you out the game for up to 30 seconds, and you can get killed with respawn times of around 6-8 seconds..."
GameSpy - Has this free-to-play shooter improved with age?
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...
Awesome i can't wait to start my own gang on xbl.
is this game still coming out for 360?
This game is going to be amazing and the customization sounds like so much fun.
Another great 360 game incoming :)