Auto Assault previewed

[Mr. Teatime]

<strong>[Game -> Preview]</strong> - More info on <a href="http://wikipocalypse.duckandcover.cx/in ... l">Company: NetDevil</a> | More info on <a href="http://wikipocalypse.duckandcover.cx/in ... title=Auto Assault">Game: Auto Assault</a>

Someone called <strong>Brian D. Crecente</strong> from <a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com">RockyMountainNews</a> went to visit the offices of <a href="http://www.netdevil.com">NetDevil</a>, developers of the post-apocalyptic MMORPG <a href="http://www.autoassault.com">Auto Assault</a> (<a href="http://www.upallnightgaming.com/contest/">win a joystick!</a>) and <a href="http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/entert ... tml">wrote up his impressions</a>. It's got some pretty meaningless hype:

<blockquote><em>Creators of 'Auto Assault' revving up for debut of revolutionary online game



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</em><em> The group of programmers, artists and game
designers at NetDevil are creating the next big thing in massively
multiplayer online gaming: A virtual world that operates on the same
principles as the real one.</em>

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The preview then goes on to talk about some other standard preview
stuff. It seems the big thing in this game is the destructable scenery:

<blockquote><p><em>Fences snap in half when you hit them, but
mow into a large building and the windows blow out. Hit it again and
dust falls off. Ram it a third time and chunks of the structure start
to fall.
</em></p><p><em>Each item in the game has 15 to 20 pieces that can break off,
Grundy said. Multiply that by the game's thousands of different objects
and you get a sense of why destruction was such a challenge.</em>

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The best bit of the preview is a picture, though:



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<div align="left">Caption competition?


<strong>Update</strong>: you can also read about the infantry in the game <a href="http://www.autoassault.com/recon/recon_ ... y.html">on the official site</a>.

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[Smiley]

hmmm 20 pieces of a car doesn't seem like much, much less a whole building...

I dunno... I'd have to see it for my self.

[S4ur0n27]

An MMORPG all about breaking stuff? I mean okay, Red Faction was good 3 years ago as a single player game.

[Fez]

I didn't like Red Faction much, the destructible environments were not done well and were under used.

There could be a place for an MMO action game in their style. I doubt I'll be subscribing to it, but it could be successful.

[hat_man99]

I think ive seen them guy before on the picture, hmmmm.....