Fallen Earth News

[Killzig]

The chuckle heads over at <A href="http://fallenearth.com/"
target=_blank>Fallen Earth</a> have sent out their latest news letter
which includes a promotional video for the upcoming Post-Apoc MMORPG.
<blockquote>Dear Friends of Fallen Earth,

Thank you for your patience and interest in our game.

We prefer to be quiet and focused, as you?ve noticed? but thought we
would send you this first letter to tell you a bit more about where this
project came from? Future newsletters will include more ?game specific?
information.

We?ve seen in the past so many games super hyped and then delayed,
frustrating a lot of fans. Our goal is to stay focused with our heads
down, and just design the vision we all share, a vision of a genuinely
unique MMORPG that you will enjoy playing and becoming a part of? a rich
environment offering multiple styles of gameplay, and the freedom that
comes with that variety.

The Icarus team has played and built MMOGs for the past 15 years. It has
been our strategy and desire to build the MMOG we wanted to play.

The world we?re producing is a game with a unique feel and atmosphere,
and a game with a message:

We are living amazing times. The progress in technology and sciences has
greatly impacted our societies. And we all know that the pace of
technology is accelerating.

We will have safer cars and airplanes, live longer lives? but overall,
what we expect at Icarus is that biochemistry, biology, genetics,
artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and disciplines not yet named
will generate tremendous leaps forward in the next century, affecting
our lives in ways we can barely imagine today...

Unfortunately though, humans remain pretty much the same: they struggle,
suffer and hope. They don?t learn from past mistakes, they are easily
corruptible and often self-indulgent.

Now ? add human nature to the trends in society and advanced technology.
And jump ahead a century or more...

You, like those of us at Icarus, can see that the results could be more
than dramatic? and if the negative trends accelerate with no solution to
keep them in check, the results could look something like the world of
Fallen Earth?

We hope it will never reach that state, we trust humanity will never
reach that level of self-destruction. But how long can you accelerate
before you spin out of control?

A wise man hopes for the best while preparing for the worst. Playing
Fallen Earth may be like preparing for the future ? and for rekindling
hope in the ashes of a collapsed world.

Fallen Earth will be a game of hope, of reconstruction. It?s you, all
the players, who will reclaim our world and reclaim it whichever way you
think it should be done.

There will be those in the game who try to stand in your way, or guide
your visions. Some, like the Enforcers, will believe that police-level
order is essential to restore civilization. Others like the Vistas, will
claim that only by respecting nature and limiting genetic manipulation
can the world be restored. Will it be one of these that you identify
with? Or maybe your inclination leans toward those who believe in Chaos
? the C.H.O.T.A?s? or spiritual Faith ? the LightBearers? or Knowledge ?
the Techs?

As for your role in this world we are building -- You decide. Neither
the world nor your role in it will be passive. We?re only here to give
you the greatest possible freedom to pursue your own preferences through
a very dangerous landscape? toward the hope that lies just over the far
horizon.

We?re approaching some important horizons of our own, and will keep in
touch with you over the coming months. Some of you will get a chance to
become testers, and we hope all of you at launch will have as much
pleasure playing Fallen Earth as we are having building it?

To thank you again for your patience, please click <a
href="http://downloads.fallenearth.com/movies ... v">HERE</a>
to download an exclusive little video sequence from the game, just for you.

The forums will open as soon as we have the resources to give them the
attention they deserve. For now, that attention remains focused on
building the game.

We look forward to having a more interactive dialog with you soon,

Peace to you all,

The Editors</blockquote>
One word, embarassing. Thanks to <a href="http://www.gammaworld.org"
target=_blank>MUTANT@GammaWorld</a> for sending this along.