The announcement of EA handling APB's marketing and distribution was a pretty big one for Realtime Worlds, and creative director Dave Jones was on hand at EA's press conference yesterday to speak with Gamasutra about the game, the company, and the developments of APB.
Game wise, Dave has spoken a bit further on how the law vs. criminal battles will work out for the game. Criminals will be able to battle against criminals, but enforcers will never find themselves matched against one another. This will open up the possibility of multiple front wars with other criminal factions, rather than a simple two front game.
Also, the game will feature large scale battles as well as "metagroups" where the game determines balancing for players who are doing exceptionally well. Dave's example was a group of 5 elite players might be matched against 15 normal ranking players, just to give the elite players a thrill and the 15 a chance against these 5.
The full interview with Gamasutra goes into the company itself, partnering options, as well as more info on APB itself.
Reader Comments (3)
Posted: Jun 2nd 2009 6:02PM CCon99 said
I like the idea of Law Enforcement vs Criminals, I just hope they put in a good system that makes it fun, while giving a good reason for everyone not to play as just one faction.
Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 12:04AM (Unverified) said
Yeah, just like what happened to WAR. All people are on destros side. Because order is so boring. The game is boring already then go with a faction thats even boring in that sense.
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Posted: Jun 3rd 2009 2:23AM (Unverified) said
uh... I don't ...what ?







