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Info On Upcoming XBox MMOFPS

Posted by Zonk on from the not-planetside dept.

Via eToychest, an interview at TeamXbox with Kijong Kang, executive producer of the upcoming Xbox Live enabled MMOFPS game Huxley. The game will exist within a persistent world which draws inspiration from several game genres, and is slated to use the Unreal 3 engine to bring the shiny. From the article: "Compared with Planet Side, there are some common features such as MMO, PW, and FPS. However, the biggest difference is the level of action. Planet Side is an enjoyable game, but it is a strategy-focused FPS game rather than an action-focused FPS game. With outstanding features, Huxley is an absolute action game such as Quake or Unreal."

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  1. Looks good. by Sheetrock · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm quite impressed with the rendering quality of the XBox vs. its contenders, at least with regards to the pictures in this article. If they manage a reasonable fps with online MMOFPSing I will seriously consider picking this up.

    There are a few ways they could improve on the formula of Planetside however. For one thing, I wish that there was a way to bring in your own maps and limit a particular arena to a certain number of players. For another, having any sort of information tied to your longterm performance such as a level, new abilities or score creates a disincentive to stick your neck out -- if they'd just let you join and play and wipe all your stats out at the end of the hour it'd be a lot more fun! It'd also be nice to have a single-player mode where you could get experience in the gaming world by battling monsters through a series of levels.

    Regardless, for restrained multiplayer mayhem I will be investigating this title further.

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    1. Re:Looks good. by jericho4.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I thought the statements made were pretty indicative of an awesome gaming experience. 5000 person battles in a persistant universe? Cool! The Unreal 3 demo vids show the seamless loading of gargantuan maps (vid #4), check that out, and then imagine 5000 players in that map.

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  2. its not just Xbox by Zeussy · · Score: 1, Interesting
    its coming out on the PC as well, inless M$ stops them.
    We are developing a PC version of Huxley. We are also considering the possibility of allowing Xbox 2 and PC gamers to play together.

    Console vs PC gamers argument is really going to have something to chew over now! Ill just stand in the corner, watching and sniggering.
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