A recent blast corralled by our news guru Cesar told us that Scottish developer of video game Crack...down secured BIG money for what they called "accelerated growth and innovation." We knew Realtime was up to something, and we knew it had to do with A.P.B (slated for 2009), but we couldn't quite understand why they needed so much loot.
Yesterday, we got the chance for a detailed overview of All Points Bulletin (APB) for the first time. A day later, we are still talking at the office about what we saw at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, where the Game Developers Conference 2008 has been taking place.
APB looks like the simultaneous appeasement of every wish/[complaint] list I've written over the years about both MMOs and open world games. It's a game that's combining both of those genres and stripping each of many of their respective annoyances.
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