Realtime Worlds: APB “Not That Far Away”
By Chris on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 12:55 PM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games
MMOs generally have extremely long development cycles, so I don’t think I was alone in thinking we wouldn’t be seeing APB – the new game from Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds — for a good while still. At the Developer conference yesterday, Realtime Worlds’ Colin Macdonald told videogaming247 that it might not be as long of a wait as I thought.
“We’re not that far away,” he said. “Things have been going really, really well. But it’s a mammoth game: what’s still to be done isn’t going to be done overnight. It’s still going to take a little while, but we’re not talking about that far away now.”
The success of Crackdown and the public’s interest in a Grand Theft Auto-style MMO certainly bodes well for APB. With an open beta in the works, we should be able to get our hands on the game sooner than even Macdonald suggested.
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From the limited view I’ve seen of this game it looks like it could be one of the best games released for a long time. I’m incredibly excited, expecially since its from the creator of Crackdown and one of the grandfathers of the GTA franchise.