“I think this one will be fun for all the Unreal and Quake players out here.”

I don’t think so, from what I saw in those videos. It looks a bit slow and spammy for my tastes, more like a less-rubbish version of Battlefield Heroes than anything in the spirit of Quake. It also look suspiciosly like a third-person shooter, but maybe that part is optional? For some reason I had been expecting an FPS, but maybe I’m getting it mixed up with some of the other PWNSes that have been announced.

Brackets?

Oh, dear.

Someone’s swapped my keyboard layout. Again.

That ‘No Elves’ video (not linked in this article) was brilliant. I was nearly sold on its quality and sentiment alone; I’d practically committed to buying the game without knowing anything more than what that obviously tongue-in-cheek video conveyed. That’s some pretty impressive advertising.

Now that I’ve seen it in action, I can honestly say that it looks 1) chaotic, 2) different and 3) [i]possibly fun[/i]. Along with many others here, though, I will confess that I found most of the sounds effects underwhelming.

I’ll definitely keep this on my radar, though, despite needing another MMO like a [i]seventh[/i] hole in my head.

No elves.

So … this is like the final bit of that, the spammy scrummy base capture with none of the grandeur of rolling into a base with 50 other guys, and knowing 50 opponents could come over the horizon any second. :/

But I guess if there’s room in the market for Unreal Lite With Customisation, maybe it’ll open the way for things that are a bit more meaty.

I’m also struggling to see how it will all fit together into a coherent world, this seems like a stranging fudging of single player/co-op to ‘level up’ and then straight team deathmatch on a par with Q3 or TF2, which doesnt really sound like an MMO to me?

Are the above developer sanctioned videos? Because I really have to question what made them think video #3 was in any way interesting to their target audience – which I’m taking to be FPS players who want a bit more persistence and reward for their efforts. I couldn’t give a toss about what fucking dance emotes they’ve decided to include in their game

I want to be invited to the beta and roll a Constructor. I will be the constructor on your team that never built turrets, and rush to control points, and spam remotes. You will hate me, but we will win the set, and farm our XP to level and unlock better stuff. The enemy will fear my shotgun-ske weapon, and hordes of recons will die tryiing to melee me, while I activate the blocking mode.
In idle hours, waiting for the queues to fill, I will hang with the other dudes in the arena. Just chatting, or trying tecniques and ideas.
Playing with good players, I will become a good player myself.

And with courage, my faction shall prevail!