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Platform: PC,
Xbox 360
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Huxley
Bringing
the first person shooter into massively multiplayer online gaming is
something that game developers have been fiddling around with for a
while now. Up to this
point, the most popular attempt at such fusion of genres has been
Planetside from Sony Online Entertainment.
The game never shattered any sales or subscription records, but
it has managed to find itself a respectable number of dedicated players
since its release. Looking
a the Planetside model, there are definite signs that an MMOFPS can
work, and Webzen is currently in the process of developing their own
title in the genre for the PC and Xbox 360 with Huxley.
Taking place in the distant future, the Earth has been ravaged by something called the Nuclearites. Because of this, earthquakes have racked the planet, global sea levels have risen, the climate has changed drastically, and everything is generally a grand ol’ mess. Making matters worse is that the human race’s evolutionary path has branched into two new |
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dominant species: the Sapiens and the Alternatives.
Now, with the Earth in such a wretched state resources are far
and few between, forcing these two factions to constantly fight over
control of them.
As such, players will find themselves battling each other in a number of different zones either as an Alternative, or a Sapien. These conflicts will often see up to 100 players at a time running around, blasting the crap out of one another in a given zone. However, Huxley won’t be solely focused on a player vs. player experiences, as there will be plenty of monsters roaming |
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the game world
that will have to be dealt with. This
in mind, the game will also assign various quests for players, advancing
the story, as
well as rewarding players, and giving them a chance to
make their character grow stronger over the course of the game, much
like one improves their stats in an RPG.
However,
because Huxley was only just announced around E3 of this year, there
still isn’t a whole lot more information on the game as of yet.
Will there be vehicles? Unique
item drops? What about instances? While
the early screenshots of the game look quite impressive, there are a lot
of questions that still need answering.
Huxley isn’t due out until some time in late 2006, so it’s
not surprising that details regarding the game are still somewhat
sparse. Hopefully in the
coming months Webzen will start to reveal more about this attempt at an
MMOFPS.
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