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Myst MMOG Details Announced
Ubi Soft and Cyan announced the title for their upcoming online game. Uru: Online Ages Beyond Myst , developed by Cyan Worlds, Inc., is slated for release late this year. From the press release, "Uru will take advantage of broadband to deliver a continually updated, immersive environment and storyline, with content that grows, changes and evolves constantly. It will also be the first persistent world to support real-time voice communication." Sounds like a different road than online games like The Sims Online and Star Wars Galaxies are taking, with the entertainment consisting in exploration and storyline rather than in player status and achievement.
Err, that's false. WorldsChat did voice on a persistent 3D world about five or more years ago.
More recently, the just announced There, also supports voice chat, for broadband users.
no really it's not what it seems.. Not a slideshow of sorts. If any of you played realMYST that was a test of the graphics engine. It looked gorgeous slow as hell on a p3 with vodoo 3 though. But it was gorgeous it looked like the old myst did but in real time. The new one if you look at the graphics is simply just as gorgeous all in real time all online. How can one not love it? I'm a big myst fan so i've been following this game since it was titled mudpie.
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the storyline is kind of unintrusive. if you don't want to pay attention to it, it doesn't make much of a difference, however it's still there. it manifests itself as news stories updated at least once a week, usually more often. they used to have a good cartoon series that they produced as downloadable movies, but the production on that has dropped off. still, funcom does a decent job of keeping the universe in AO pretty lively. but like any other game, it's all what you make of it.
with the introduction of "The Notum Wars", AO has become a more player-driven story line as PVP battles erupt all throughout the planet. certain lands are pretty much uncontested, and other lands have turned into constant war zones. the plot isn't really advancing; rubi-ka has always been a land that was being fought for, but now people are becoming much more involved in the fight.
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Individuals within Cyan have confirmed that at launch there will be at least a PC and Mac client.