Why did people give the original APB so much fucking crap? I don't know how many of you have tried Reloaded (same game, but it was bought off by a different company and made entirely free), since this game is a fucking blast. Seriously, the game has its problems, but it's in no way the stinking pile of shit most media websites have made it out to be. When people kept tugging on me to play it, I thought to myself that it must be horrible, but I was pleasantly surprised.
The customization is probably the best I've seen in any video game; you can literally dye your clothes and cars in myriad ways, and make your own symbols (pretty complex system for a video game) and then apply them. I won't even get into how fun this game is in co-op. I mean, you can literally start the game up, make a character, and then start doing missions with one of your bros, since the entirety of the game is based on PvP, so you're pretty much facing an open-world matchmaking system without actively having to go back and forth to quest-givers, or whatever. The community is pretty good as well. Sure, a lot of the people playing it are just fucking around and trolling, but it's still a significant step-up from the disgusting player-base of something like World of Warcraft, and the general chats are pretty libertine.
Now, the game does have a fuckload of problems, I'm not saying it doesn't: the matchmaking can put you against unbeatable players, there's definitely an amount of hackers in the game, driving cars feels like sailing, there's not much else to do except grind in order to unlock clothes and weapons, and I can't really think of any reason to play after that, since the gameplay isn't really that outstanding.
In fine, it's a pretty unique little game,which tried to merge GTA's gameplay with MMOs in a cool way. It has its faults, and it's definitely not worth the subscribtion they initially planned on - but it's seriously disheartening to see how nobody knows of this game, and how journalists trashed it to no end despite the fact that it actually tried doing something different.
Shame.
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