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Brave New Genre: Huxley, the MMOFPS

An MMOFPS? Many scoff at such a feat. A cross-platform MMOFPS? Many more join in. A cross-platform MMOFPS with the name of Huxley? Everyone dies of laughter. Korean-based Webzen is developing the Massive Multiplayer Online First-Person Shooter, Huxley (what a mouthful!) with battles up to 120 people participating in a persistent online world. Webzen plans to couple the hectic and fast-paced FPS with more traditional MMORPG elements, like leveling and questing.

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Greysturm - 503 days ago

1 - looks like a nice game...

The story sounds a bit blah but the gameplay looks like unreal tourny gone huge dont know if thats good thing or a bad thing since unreal was a bit to hectic for me adding more people into them mix is questionable.

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mikeslemonade - 502 days 22 hours ago

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The unreal engine 3 isn't meant for mmo games so the game is going to look like crap. There's already plenty of generic looking unreal engine 3 shooters.

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DaKid - 502 days 21 hours ago

1.2 - @Greysturm

I agree unreal is really quick, I couldn't imagine what it would be like with 60 or even 120 player matches. I think I would spend around %90 of the match dead, and %10 wondering what the hell is happening

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Skerj - 503 days ago

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Planetside and Neocron did it first afaik. Judging from the Korean beta, Huxley still has a loooooooong way to go.

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Greysturm - 503 days ago

2.1 - They better hurry it up and release before Mag...

Else it will lose some if not most of its appeal.

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supahbad - 502 days 23 hours ago

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kind of seems to me like it will try to take away some of the light from Fallout3

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supahbad - 502 days 23 hours ago

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graphics and animations are pretty decent for an MMO, but it still has a LONG way to go. anyone know is this just for PC and 360?

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power of Green - 502 days 23 hours ago

4 - EDIT....

60 vs 60 on the 360 version and 100 vs 100 on the PC.

‘Experiences’ and ‘Battle points’ are two elements of character advancement. ‘Experiences’ will affect the earlier part of character development and ‘Battle Points’ will affect the later part of a character’s development in a big way.

Huxley includes vehicles for both player-vs-player and player-vs-environment gameplay, as well as general transportation. Gameplay footage has shown several visually interesting SciFi vehicles, including an APC, an aircraft resembling UT2004's Raptor, a large energy based tank, and a small assault buggy. Vehicles are used in both combat and transportation.

Anyways here is a cool movie.

Can't wait for the game.

http://www.gametrailers.com...

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supahbad - 502 days 23 hours ago

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yeah 120 doesn't sound like that much considering. i guess that we can start calling MAG an MMO

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power of Green - 502 days 23 hours ago

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Why is that, does Mag have huge living and brething worlds, with markets, transportation systems and simulations? etc etc etc.

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Xi - 502 days 22 hours ago

4.3 - Supah

the game does features battles of 100 v 100 (i bet including ai) however the hubs which house well over that with regards of the players.

The battles themselves are a bit harder to explain, I believe (don't quote me on this) it's about 120 players however at any point during these battles the 3rd alien race may attack and both teams are required to attack those.

However the game does feature RPG elements which does take time to balance out.

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supahbad - 502 days 19 hours ago

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did i say RPG? i said MMO. of course an RPG has markets and evolves. i was comparing it to other mmorpg's with tons more players on one server. why does an mmo have to be an rpg?

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Muff1nB4k3r - 502 days 22 hours ago

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Last time I viewed a preview of The Agency by Sony Online Entertainment, the producer referred to the game as an Online Persistent Shooter, OPS which judging from this article bout Huxley, is almost the same thing. I for one an interesting in how both of these are going to turn out.

Game-on!

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Xi - 502 days 22 hours ago

6.2 - CViper.

the rush isn't to create a genre, it's to popularize it. For Example:
-Many games have editable terrains and maps, LBP isn't a first at that, but whether or not they can popularize the gameplay into a thriving genre is another thing.

-goldeneye wasn't the first console FPS, marathon and aliens both came first.

I think that these MMOFPS games can work, but so far everyone has used the wrong context and game design about doing them.

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But you can in crysis, the sandbox editor lets you do everything you can in LBP in real time, even gary's mod allows for 90% of the things, however it limits you to mostly HL decals and models.

As for the title, no one is calling this game new either, all it's saying is that the genre is new, and this is an upcoming title. No where does it say that huxley is the first MMOFPS, only that it's an MMOFPS in a new genre of games.

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vdesai - 502 days 18 hours ago

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Download PlanetSide play for free its popular you see tons of people. Just shows the ignorance of console gamers.
"-Many games have editable terrains and maps, LBP isn't a first at that, but whether or not they can popularize the gameplay into a thriving genre is another thing."
I dont understand, why?
They are both games they should both get the same treatment right?

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CrizzleC24 - 502 days 18 hours ago

8 - SOMEBODY PLEASE RELEASE THIS GAME BEFORE MGS8!!!!!!!

I have waited for roughly....3 years! Make the game already! I want to play an mmofps on a console. I still remember the video of the off-screen gameplay of a car driving to some location and everything, that was three years ago and i remember it that good!!!Please god! Make this game come out before Killzone 5 or Duke Nukem Forever.

Oh special note (Planetscape was the first mmofps)

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vdesai - 502 days 6 hours ago

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PlanetSide

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Steven Colbert - 502 days 17 hours ago

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I have waited for this game for a long time.I remember reading about it in a PC gamer back in 2005

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OriginalWangster - 503 days 2 hours ago

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Looks interesting - it can either be amazing or the worst thing in the world. It also looks like you need a badass computer to run it.

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 503 days ago

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Well nope, just a 269 Euro/299 Dollar 360 is enough :P

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I Love Xbox 360 - 503 days ago

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Xbox 3shitty suxorz

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I Love Xbox 360 - 503 days ago

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PS3 games look better than xBOX games, they also run better than their Xbox counterparts, even after significant optimizations for the Xbox's architecture the games still look and run inferior. Therefore, the PS3 is more powerful based on the simple evidence that games look and play better on it than the Xbox 360.

Technically, we know that the PS3's GPU is more powerful than the Xbox's. Also, the PS3 uses unified shaders and memory and this allows the video to have access to the whole 512mb of RAM on the system , unlike the Xbox which only allows the GPU to use an insufficient 256mb. Also the Xbox's Dashboard uses far more memory than the PS3's firmware, which does far more than the Blade for less. This allows more memory to be used for gaming than rather for non gaming processes. Then we must look at the famous CELL processor, which has been proven that it is an superior processor for games because of the nature of its much touted SPEs, whose capabilities are unlimited. Compared to the Xbox 360s 3core processor and its multithreaded architecture, the PS3's processor simply put is far superior for gaming applications.

What we can deduce from these facts is that the PS3 is the most powerful gaming console ever created.

What makes it really simple is to just compare the games, which system runs the games better and which system has the best looking games.

The answer is the PS3.

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Greysturm - 503 days ago

3.1 - It sounded awesome at the time of inception...

But with the advances being made into the competition i hope they can have something like the touted dynamic objective system because as i stated in the normal zone i think things will get to hectic if its only a fragfest. Also i heard that the 360 version would only be a singleplayer campaign with limited online capabilities however since i have no evidence since i forgot the link lets hope it was a fake and they can deliver the whole experience to the 360.

Didnt mean it as a reply sorry about that.

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ukilnme - 503 days ago

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Boring.

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power of Green - 502 days 23 hours ago

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120?, 100 vs 100.

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power of Green - 502 days 22 hours ago

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60 vs 60 for 360 and what I said above for PC.

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zo6_lover27 - 502 days 22 hours ago

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ICUP - 502 days 22 hours ago

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It sad when a troll have to reply to his own post. HEHE

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ICUP - 502 days 23 hours ago

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MAG (Massive Action Game) is a massively multiplayer online action game featuring 256 player battles. :)

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GameOn - 502 days 21 hours ago

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It's only massively multi player if it has a persistent world. It is most definitely massive though.

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zo6_lover27 - 502 days 22 hours ago

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And we get MAG, 256 players, not 120 like this sh!t game, and they at like they thought of MMOFPS first when there's MAG.

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