Basically it boils down to at best 16 Vs 16 Capture and hold gameplay in static; lets call them, UT3 Style Maps with some Metagame RPG style development tacked onto the side.

I’m not saying it’s bad but I am saying it will be nothing like Planetside. Not even close. Unreal is the worst possible engine to attempt a Planetside scale game in.

“Our world is very player driven!” = -Nothing-

“As your (something) character developes, he’ll unlock new equipment, and powerfull new devices” = -NOTHING- (i think i recall RPS saying that whatever the solution for FPS’s in 2009 was.. its was NOT “with an RPG element!” …

Oh COME ON!! this is… UT … with.. words! and RPG elements!!

please! give me something with a soul ! this game looks as uninspired as the producers maniac-happy speaches.. gives me the creeps..

Its like the movies. there is a set of rules to the play of the “game” (the gameplay) and thats nice.. but in Jean Baudrillards words (and now im in over my head) those are just references to a binary system of question/answer schemas… what is important is the tactile stimulation, (the universe/soul/esscence of the movie/game) (thats why Bladerunner and Apocalypse now are such good movies.)

If i want good gameplay ill play freakin tetris for the rest of my life (gross exageration)

ok! gameplay is essential! but so is immersion! i want to feel that im in another world… not playing a meta game of stats and gameplay mechanics!

(i really havent put alot of thought into this tekst.. so fire away :)

[Thursday 08th] [22:51:33] T2 is a very old game, heh
[Thursday 08th] [22:51:55] I hope I get into this because it looks epic.
[Thursday 08th] [22:52:03] the bastard lovechild of Tribes, Planetside and Tabula Rasa.
[Thursday 08th] [22:52:09] http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/01/07/the-world-is-enough-global-agenda/#more-6989
[Thursday 08th] [22:53:52] sorry, bastard lovechild of Tribes, Planetside, Tabula Rasa and Dystopia.

Dystopia as in the Source mod, that is.

Not a massive player base anymore- probably only a couple of thousand on the server at any one time. But there’s just the one server, with campaigns lasting a month or two.

I don’t play anymore (Don’t have the time), but it’s a great game. Great community too-mostly older players. Massive depth.

It suffers to some degree from long time-to-combat and poor looking graphics and so on, but I think that’s much more due to the heavy realism stance of the devs than fundamental problems with the genre. If such a niche MMOFPS manages to work and survive, I think surely a more mainstream one can be made to work. I’m sure there’s a market for it.

As for fights coming to me, I tended to run with a group of up to 30 other players in an outfit, the enemy couldn’t ignore us if we went to a new continent unless they wanted to lose ground.

Thus far I’ve been getting this terrible feeling that it’ll only be a quasi MMO FPS, with lots of time sitting in a browser/mission window rather than actual epic battles as in planetside. I hope to be proven wrong on this assumption/feeling though.

Rose tinted specs are a wonderful thing, I remember sitting (and flying around) for thirty plus minutes in Planetside waiting for the fight to come to me or the forces to attack another place. As for the game, looks interesting … wake me up when there is a proper beta and normal consumer reviews/reports on it.

I’ve seen it happen in CS: headshots left, right and center. my friend got permbanned in 5 minutes, of sourse, but it might not be so easy to dismiss them in an MMO with a real appeal process.

So, I was thinking, what with the proliferation of talking-head-preview-videos these days, perhaps RPS could scour the depths of the internet to find the most horrifically excited talkingest head of them all? Come on, you know he’s out there – that guy who gets just a little bit too excited by those ‘tactical decisions’ and ‘next-gen’ and ‘groundbreaking’ buzzwords.

Then just set him to work buzzwording for RPS. I’m pretty sure this site could use more ‘emergent narrative’ and ‘realistic breast physics’.