Thursday, July 2, 2009

It's like a Half-Life 2 MMO mod of Mad Max

Whoa. I got into the Fallen Earth MMO stress test and I think this is the next iteration of MMO. It was frustrating at first and beta bugs abound, but the production value is beyond anything I've seen. You have to struggle through the entire turtorial to understand what I mean! The idea of an MMOFPS initially turned me off, but in this post-apocalyptic game, it just makes perfect sense and works! I love running around with an axe, machine gun and OMGWTFBBQ double pistols all visible on my avatar! Mounts in this game are horses (metal and flesh). Oh right, and your deaths really make sense in the game. When it happens the first time and you hear your guides explanation you are like, 'Whoa'.

There are so many options in character creation that I was overwhelmed. There are so many options that one of two things will happen. You will spend the entire first weekend settling on your character design or give up an hour into it and just start hitting the randomize buttons (one for face, separate one for body..there are that many options).