“APB” Announced… Think Crackdown, But In MMO Form

Author: Rees | Date: February 23, 2008

APB Screenshot

Sticking With What You Know: Not Necessarily A Bad Thing

Realtime Worlds took the Xbox 360 gaming population by storm last year when they released Crackdown – a free-roaming superhuman secret agent game set in a massive, dynamic and seemless city. You played the “good” guy, a genetically-engineered agent for the city’s Police department, tasked with taking down the gang bosses who were trying to take over the city.

OK, so the story was a little cheesy – but the gameplay was something else.

Sticking with the formula that Realtime Worlds know so well, they decided to build another free-roaming cops and robbers game, but this time on a much, much bigger scale – with car and character customisation, and a massive online world for people to hook up and roam around in. This, in essence, is their new game, known as APB.

Anyway, Kotaku were at the preview event at GDC, and have loads more information and a massive picture gallery up (unfortunately photographs of a big projection screen – ho hum). There’s also a surprisingly boring trailer on GameTrailers.

APB is set for release on PC and Xbox 360 some time this year – it’s looking pretty polished already so let’s hope it’s sooner rather than later!

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Comment by SmellyGeekBoy
2008-02-24 13:40:45

Pretty much, but without the superhero-ness. I’m not really into all that orcs and elves rubbish so I find it quite tempting – especially as I’m such a huge Crackdown fan.

 
Comment by SmellyGeekBoy
2008-02-24 15:04:38

They’ve specifically said that there won’t be any grinding involved. And the quests all involved organised crime of some sort, which has to be a good thing!

 
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