By Jim Rossignol on December 7th, 2010 at 10:01 am.
Speaking of long-delayed MMOs, VG247 spotted that SOE have revealed that The Agency is now scheduled for the second half of 2011. The combat-led MMO has apparently required quite a lot more work to make it enjoyable, and it certainly had a quiet showing at E3. I’ve posted the most recent game footage below – a PvP sequence – for reference. And it does look kind of interesting, what with being a proper manshooter and everything. What still isn’t quite clear right now is how the hub-based missions will create a sense of “worldiness” and quite how the “massive” aspect of the game will manifest. We’ve had a few failures in that regard since PlanetSide.
07/12/2010 at 10:26 Larington says:
Heh, that was timely, I was wondering about the release date for this just yesterday, and the wiki said a Dec 12 release date (At the time I checked it last night), so wasn’t sure if that meant a ‘soft launch’ or what.
07/12/2010 at 11:19 poop says:
the combat looks okay but it looked okay in the APB videos soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
08/12/2010 at 02:22 TheBrainninja says:
I like how you single-handedly broke the page formatting. Who knew Word-wrap was so dicey? At least for Webkit.
07/12/2010 at 11:27 televizor says:
Are they gonna gonna have cross-platform support? I know they will for Final Fantasy XIV, it’d be nice for devs (or at least the ones working for Sony) to start doing this for all multi-plat games.
07/12/2010 at 12:37 MrMud says:
And that seems to have turned out great…
07/12/2010 at 11:46 Choca says:
Heh, I had forgotten about this. I think I played it once a few years ago.
07/12/2010 at 13:03 Bald Space Marine says:
Looks boring and bland as hell……
It seems the weapons have no recoil….at all.
07/12/2010 at 15:09 Dreamhacker says:
Man, another cover-based TPS? Blegh….
07/12/2010 at 16:58 lumberjack_wannabe says:
The controls look clunky, especially transitioning from cover to first person.
I’d really fancy a Planetside reboot of some sort, never got to play that one…
08/12/2010 at 00:39 WombatDeath says:
Planetside was pretty groovy, though I was rubbish at it. I have no idea why there aren’t more FPS MMOs floating around.
I remember playing Hostile Waters very many years ago and thinking how awesome it would be if it was multiplayer. Now we have the ability to do that sort of thing on a massive scale but nobody seems very interested. I demand that the gaming industry stop pumping out derivative arsenuggets and satisfy my requirements immediately.
07/12/2010 at 18:13 westyfield says:
I was excited about this game.
Four years ago.
07/12/2010 at 18:51 pupsikaso says:
Stopped watching when he equipped some kind of thing that lets him see enemies through walls.
What’s the point in that? Takes all the fun out of playing against human opponents.
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