Gta Mmo

[Zarcath]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/apb/news_6118620.html

I can't remember which thread we were talking about this in, turns out there really is a GTA MMO in the works.

DMA Design founder David Jones finds publisher for new MMORPG; Webzen bringing title to market in 2007.

The day is fast approaching when David Jones may be known as more than solely the designer of Grand Theft Auto. Today, Jones updated the industry to the title, publisher, and release date of a game he has long promoted at industry conferences and events.

The game, titled All Points Bulletin, or APB, is a massively multiplayer online title that lets players form "gangs or squads all around the world," and then lets them play together "in hundreds of online cities."

APB is being published by MU Online developer/publisher Webzen, one of South Korea's largest and most successful game operators. As for APB's gameplay, Jones said in a statement, "As an avid gamer and creator of many single-player games, it has been my dream to create an online game experience that provides the player with the ultimate freedom to do whatever he wants, in a thriving, living environment."

APB is due to be released in 2007. It has no relation to the arcade classic APB, which was most recently featured on the multiplatform rerelease Midway Arcade Treasures 2.

[Hwed]

May it not suck!

[kudos]

Originally posted by Hwed
It will suck!

[Kevincheese]

GTA, or GTA3?

I'd love a GTA3/VC/etc type ... not so much mmo in the standard sense, but incorporating their normal awesome world stuff into allowing many players in it. It could be real fun if done right, I think.

[Braen]

Too bad the title "Anarcy Online" was already taken....

[Algol Devilstar]

GTA is sooo boring.

[Tripamang]

Wow... in terms of a game porting over to MMO I don' t think theres a better example than GTA.

Seamless world, tons of content and it's most likely won't be your typical level your character to max and raid shit game =p

I'd welcome a GTA MMO with open arms.

[Clowns]

Who's up for playing a character that gets carjacked or beat down by someone else in game, were talking PVP at another level. Or better yet play the whore that gets in the car and starts /blowjob some other PC?? All that and pay only $15.99/month to do it.

[Tripamang]

How about holding up banks? Joining gangs? starting gangs? Running racketeering setups, raids on other gangs.. buying up buildings. Doingkidnappings, importing guns, importing drugs, selling drugs. Buying up the towns businesses... etc etc =p

Then you could add a whole nother side to GTA by letting people be cops. Do drug busts, raid gang areas... clean up an area and keep it clean from thugs. Get promoted, join the FBI, go after bigger game.

After you got that in place you could add factors like cops being able to be corrupted, and thugs being informants etc.

This game has so many possibilities it's disgusting.

[Digo]

Imagine if in PVP, losing to law enforcement got you thrown in prison.

GMOTD: Time for early parole. Riot at San Quentin, 7pm pst.

[Divinator]

If done right, this game could be really really fun to play.

[Braen]

Unless there are LoS issue with the guards or if the Crip get's stuck in the wall it bugs out.
Or when you are raiding South Central instance your "gang" gets locked out for weeks...

Maybe when the Chief of Police or Mayor gets killed by an exploit, Rockstar will let you keep the loot!

[Dyscord]

I'm sorry, anyone who doesn't get excited at the thought of multiplayer GTA... I don't mourn you, you're already dead inside.

San Andreas gives a small hint of the kinda crazy fun that GTA could be with more than one person. Even though the two characters couldn't leave the same screen, or couldn't do missions... man it was just crazy fun.

Personally though, I think they aught to just drop the whole MMO thing... GTA's strength is its ability to just pick up (its non-perminance), and go on a crazy super violent killing spree, and just generally act stupid. MMO's are slower, more deliberate. Tradeskills, Leveling Up, Death Penalties, Item Rartiy, none of that belongs in a GTA game. They should just stick to making a multiplayer game, nothing massive about it.

[Samus Aran]

I think the game will be amazing, if they just make it a casual-yet-fucking-addictive-and-amazing game. I hope it will be a MMO of minigames, with shit just going on all over.

I don't want there to be "15 O.G. lfg to rob the liquor store". I hope you can buy/attain a car within the first 20 min of gameplay (excluding any tutorial-type thing). I hope within the first hour, you and your friends are performing drive-by's. I hope...I hope that this game is awesome.

But do I think it will be what we dream of? No.

[Algol Devilstar]

oh nos! Im already dead inside! Sorry, dont find GTA fun in the least.