APB Reloaded
Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Jun 29, 2010
Better known as the free-to-play "APB: Reloaded", APB is a MMO third-person shooter by the developers of Crackdown. Players choose between the hard-boiled law enforcers or the feared criminals as they try to stop the opposing faction's objectives.
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What they could do is have the players split up into two teams, and no matter what your character design is, you will be placed on one of two sides. Whatever side you chose to design your character for, the other side is the opposite; you pick robbers, then the opponents will always be cops. But each user doesn't really know what his or her fellow teammates are really allied with. Your teammates all look like robbers of various sorts if you're a robber, etc.
Then all you have to do to define yourself is steal purses from old ladies or whatever empowering, brutal wish fulfillment there is in this game, to show what side you're really on.
I want the game where you get donuts out of buildings, instead.
Hmmm. So the only way to trigger an in-game event is if the criminals actually commit a crime? Does that mean that Enforcers can't activate a raid on known criminal hide-outs? Or than criminal gangs can't fight against each other for land? Lots of questions, but still mad hyped for this game. Hope it does eventually come out for the 360.
Also, can't wait to make a big-chested lady punk/skinhead type, do a couple missions and then start talking with my baritone voice, and have her lips move right along with it.
It's great in concept, I just don't think this game will be the one to best showcase it.
Rockstar could do a far better job I imagine, shame they're not making a game of it's type, I think they should be.
1UP has a bunch of videos for APB. Here is one of them with customization demonstrated:
" It's great in concept, I just don't think this game will be the one to best showcase it.Rockstar could do a far better job I imagine, shame they're not making a game of it's type, I think they should be. "
I still have a hard time seeing this coming to 360, dont get me wrong i fucking hope it does and that its not some crippled pc port. Cause i dont own a pc, i only have a Mac, so im really interested in this coming to console. But damn i feel like its a bit too ambitious calming that this will be on a console, especially a console that only uses DVD´s as its medium.
Not surprised, considering how long its been in development and how long its been silent....which is why the slim showing was enough for me.
Excited for it! the character creation is awesome.
I'm looking forward to seeing how this game turns out. I think it has the potential to be really great, or horrifically bad.
" I'm looking forward to seeing how this game turns out. I think it has the potential to be really great, or horrifically bad. "
Ah, glad to see APB getting some attention. I reckon it has potential - that's a pretty solid dev. team that's been working on it for 4 years, so I wouldn't disregard it too soon.
Apparently - according to RPS at least - the 'chaos' servers exist to demonstrate how bad an idea it is to play it like that. The bit that concerns me is the 100 server limit, which means more often than not you won't be able to get on 'your' server. It's going to be a bummer if you can't get your regular crew together on one server and/or go up against groups of rivals that you recognise.
So when it finally gets here, are we GB GameCops or Bomb Bandits?
From what little I've seen of APB in action its looking pretty good. The customization is sweet but I would imagine the gameplay gets a bit repetitous. Seems like the kind of game that would need a 'wow level' of support in order to keep players interested. I hope they do an open beta, can never get a good feel for an mmo without being in the open beta.
" 1UP has a bunch of videos for APB. Here is one of them with customization demonstrated:"
Everything about this game looks badass, and I'm really excited about this, bummer they're feeding us information so slowly.
@DOUBLESHOCK: In one of the customization videos that was shown, they briefly had a cop car that was green I believe and had custom graphics all over it and was looking very badass, So I would assume they would give full customization to the cops, otherwise nobody would really want to play them.
Also there is guns and stuff so I wonder how cop like it will be, Can you just shoot to kill or will you have to be all nice haha.
" Not to split hairs or anything, but you do realize David Jones is the guy who invented GTA, yes? And yes, Rockstar has changed quite a bit since the days of GTA and GTA2, but I think that he has the pedigree of how to make a open-world game "work." "This. David Jones is a god amongst Sandbox developers, only closely chased by the Just Cause team.
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