Comments on: CrimeCraft Footage, Dev Speak

By: DrazharLn

DrazharLn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:50:04 +0000

Is it just me, or does this game look boring?

It seems to me that it’s a T(hird)PS with a glorified lobby and a set of probably irritating skills. In the end it all comes down to old-as-the-hills team deathmatch arenas.

The PvE missions look terrible! Kill 20 dudes with a particular gun (or whatever). So artificial.

APB, on the other hand seems to actually be trying for something a little bit different. It might not turn out good (though personally I think it’ll be fun for a while at least) but it’s ambitious and new, not some kind of ill-designed mashup of Unreal Tournament and WoW.

IMHO, of course.

By: Tei

Tei — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:12:09 +0000

A few years ago a game of this type (short name, Oz, or something similar) whas widly popular. I suppose the ones like counter-strike only need to be fun and easy to install.

By: ChampionHyena

ChampionHyena — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:53:01 +0000

Waitaminute. Last time I checked on CrimeCraft (which, admittedly, was a helluva long time ago), it was free-to-play. Whahappen?

By: Nerd Rage

Nerd Rage — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:21:40 +0000

Hell~~gate~~gang: ~~London~~Ambiguous Urban Environment?

By: Wooly

Wooly — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:04:18 +0000

“So it’s Gears of War with slight RPG elements?”

Nonononono. It’s Gears of war with slight RPG elements AND monthly fees!

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:45:13 +0000

http://www.kraftfoods.com/
Blizzard has nothing.

Get back from over the shoulder and no-one gets hurt, first person ffs, will no-one go fps?

By: Clovis

Clovis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:24:49 +0000

@Lu-Tze: My little brother had COD5. He kept using the craziest word and it took me forever to figure out what he was saying. I eventually caught on when I realized that dead bodies were exploding. The problem was that he was pronouncing it “Marty Dom”. I pointed out the mistake and got an incredulous, “That’s what Mom said!” response. I think he, and his friends, still pronounce it incorrectly. Martydom grenades never really bothered me when I played COD5 though.

I imagine Blizzard could have a case against the title if a reasonable person would assume that the makers of Warcraft and Starcraft also made Crimecraft. A reasonable person might not assume that though since Blizzard is not dumb enough to name something Crimecraft.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:39:14 +0000

this and APB seem to be the first ever first person games in third person! :S

By: Tei

Tei — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:36:11 +0000

MMORTS and MMOFPS are lesser genres, with less players than MMORPG. So what this games are tryiing, is hard. I say.. Good luck!.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:55:41 +0000

Maybe I’m just seeing it wrong, but doesn’t it look like that machinegun’s spread is along a horizontal line rather than being an actual gaussian spread? If so, that must be fairly awkward.

It seems like really bad timing for these guys that they’re developing their crime MMOG at the same time as APB.

By: Sunjammer

Sunjammer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:48:23 +0000

Hilariously bad name

By: Stupoider

Stupoider — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:38:22 +0000

I think I’ll stick with APB! :)