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APB: ALL POINTS BULLETIN

APB is the mmo many of us have been waiting for (besides SWTOR of course). An action fps mmo that is very player based. APB at first glance looks like Grand Theft Auto, and it’s just that, but much more. The game is split between two factions; you can wreck havoc upon the games city districts as a Criminal or gear up and lay down the law as an Enforcer. Missions are player based; Criminals will have missions to steal cars and rob stores, when this is done an All Points Bulletin will appear to the Enforcer players in the area alerting them of the crime and giving them a new mission to stop them. With that, missions can be approached by different strategies; you can sneak around town and find a car in the back streets to steal that no one would notice, or you and some friends can jack a car in broad daylight but you better be ready for the Enforcers to come rolling in.

The servers are split between Standard and Chaos. Standard servers are that the enforcers have to obey the laws and the criminals have to be more careful for the enforcers are keeping an eagle eye on the city. While a chaos server is like GTA where both factions can kill citizens and members of the opposing faction at whim. At first chaos seems like it would just be people patrolling sidewalks killing every npc on the block, but the bulletins go out, and you will be hunted down. Each server holds up to 100,000 people, which players can then go to district maps which hold up to 100 people, or social districts which hold up to 250 people. Each world has hundreds of these maps although only any single district has a population limit.

Just about everything on your character can be customized. Those with the inner artist can spend hours redetailing their cars and clothing with awesome designs and logos with an “Animal Crossing-esque” design grid. And the musicians can remix and create their own music with an in-game synthesizer, which all can be traded between players and played in your car on the radio for all to hear. APB has a lot to offer for an online game.

The game is scheduled to release sometime this Spring/Summer, and you can still apply for the beta. The more I look into it, the more I want to play it. With its early release, hopefully this is the game I have been looking for to satisfy my lust for a new non-WoW mmo.

-Jon

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Release Star Trek Online already!

As I’ve stated in my MOGS bio, I’m more of an FPS player than anything else. But when I heard the news of the Star Trek MMO in the works back in 2008, I was pretty stoked. Well that was almost a year ago and they still do not have an official release date. Maybe they’re revamping the game after the release of the newest movie? For those of you who haven’t seen the game developers latest trailer, check it out here!

Resistance is futile.

-Christian,