Massively Multiplayer Grand Theft Auto

Voodoo Extreme has the story that earlier this week Grand Theft Auto creator David Jones announced the upcoming release of APB, a massively multiplayer game in the vein of Grand Theft Auto. It won't be out until 2007, but will make an appearance at E3 this year. Business Wire has details on the game's developer, Webzen, as well. The company sounds as if it's going to be making a major push into the market. From the article: "In addition to APB, Webzen, Inc. plans to bring multiple online game titles to the U.S. market. The titles include the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), SUN, releasing in the third quarter of 2005, and a massively multiplayer online first person shooter (MMOFPS) called Huxley, that leverages the latest Unreal 3 game engine and is scheduled to release in 2006."

MMGTA?

[FirienFirien]

This is going to be a game of 'who can run over the pedestrian first'... gonna have all the "That was my pedestrian!! OMG" arguments we see in hacknslashes at the moment ;)

Re:Dare I ask.....

[clausiam]

Can't they just integrate with the "Sims Online" (http://thesims.ea.com/ [ea.com]). Then the GTA players can kill and mame the poor Sims players who just try and go about their daily life 8-)

Great...

[Dragoon412]

Fantastic! Where do I sign up for beta? There's nothing I'd rather do than hang out with the sort of quality people that think beating hookers to death is fun! I can't imagine a game with a more enjoyable crowd of players than the teenage-suburban-white-kids-that-act-like-gangstas demographic this game will surely attract!

I mean, just think of the possibilities! I always found common 13375p34k to be too intelligable, now, I'll be able to revel in wonderful in game conversation like "wtf yo gimme ur g4tz fo rizzle j00 f4gg0t" and "3y3 wiznill takes j00 ryde fizzy you plz!11!elevntyone!11"

*sigh*

I fear for my generation.

Besides, what could this game accomlish that Gizoogle [gizoogle.com] hasn't already. ;)

In case we are invaded by demons from Hell...

[Anonymous Coward]

You may all rest easily, knowing that Blizzard has
thoroughly trained me to deal with that situation.

A massively multiplayer GTA environment?

[Wildcat J]

They already have something like that--it's called "Detroit".