Free Online Games
1:47 pm in Gaming
These are some free online game sites. You’ll enjoy countless hours of fun at no cost. What could be better?
Here are some of the funnest sites out there, I highly recommend all of them!
1:47 pm in Gaming
These are some free online game sites. You’ll enjoy countless hours of fun at no cost. What could be better?
Here are some of the funnest sites out there, I highly recommend all of them!
3:01 pm in Gaming
“The Guild 2″ is a game that has every aspect you could want in a game. If you are okay with a long tutorial and learning a lot of features, you will thoroughly enjoy this PC game. It has elements from The Sims, Pirates, Dynasties, Law and Order, Politics and other cool concepts. Besides that, the graphics are awesome to top it off.
You design your character and choose his starting stats that build up with experience. This is typical of most rpgs(role playing games). You can be a craftsman, rogue, scholar or patron. Their is 3-5 subclasses in those categories depending on who you pick. Such as miners, woodcutters or black smithy. You can hire employees to help your business (rogues can hire thugs, patrons hire servants). This is highly immersive as their is real time economy in the game. You mine the iron, sell it in market, then a smith can buy it, make something and sell that item (armor, swords, etc.) in the market. Then the computer or real player can store it in his house or carry it. A rogue can then go to his house and steal it. So an item is never lost unless a character dies. He can even pass his items on to his children if he is of old age. Plus the prices in the market fluctuate depending on supply. You can make money just from buying and selling in various markets.
The game is multiplayer as well, online or network which makes it really enjoyable. You can compete in the markets or in elections. Vie for the city mayor or accuse each other of crimes in court. Or you can ally and try to take out the other computer guilds. Their are multiple cities in each map and tons of room to run your own city and show it off to your friend in game. You can even move different characters in your dynasty from town to town. So if you get bored of one town you can switch towns.
There are also titles in the game, you can go from commoner to baronet. You also pass your titles down to your children, so your dynasty can prosper. There is also a feature where your children take the attributes of you and your wife. So their stats will be good if you and your wife have great stats. You can control three people from your dynasty. This leaves plenty of room to have variety and keep things interesting. Since each character can’t change classes, you can have your wife and son be two different classes or you can specialize on one skill and refine it throughout generations, so your kids can be born with a mastery of skills in that craft.
5:14 pm in Gaming
APB, short for All Points Bulletin, is a new game headed for release this year. The game is essentially cops and robbers. Players choose to be police officers or criminal gang members engaged in an unending turf war for supremacy of the streets.
The creator of APB is none other than David Jones. Jones was the creative mastermind behind Grand Theft Auto, a hugely popular series, with the latest game being highly successful with a gritty realism, in which players operate in the criminal underworld while trying to avoid police.
Due to APB having the founder of Grand Theft Auto, and the similar components of gameplay and nature of the game, the parallels between the games are striking. The APB massively multiplayer online game has drawn many comments referring to it as a sort of “Grand Theft Auto Online” for the criminal elements of gameplay involved. A concept that Rockstar Games has most certainly considered in the past, but would be harder to pursue if a copycat game is released before Rockstar has made their entry to the market.
So the solution then becomes apparent. Rockstar should approach the former creator of the Grand Theft Auto series and enter into negotiations with the company. If a deal can be worked out to include the Grand Theft Auto name, and perhaps provide extra funding to improve development, APB could be revamped into “Grand Theft Auto Online”.
The difficulty lies in that development is already well underway that Rockstar might only have the Grand Theft Auto label to offer to APB developer Realtime Worlds. Perhaps some sort of agreement with publishing and marketing can be made, with the expenses mostly coming from Rockstar or some other favorable agreement in exchange for a more fair share of the profits. Realtime Worlds has denied the rumors, but it would be a reasonable venture to make.
As the MMORPG market has shown, the key to growing rapidly often can be merely the right label on the product. World of Warcraft was quite unexceptional at launch, but using the right name on their product and a massive marketing campaign, was able to woo over hundreds of thousands of gamers to subscribe, who in turn, convinced millions of new gamers to join.
The Grand Theft Auto label could help launch the MMO in a way that could be mutually beneficial to both Rockstar and Realtime Worlds. Otherwise, the two may end up becoming un-necessary rivals.
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