InstantAction.com has just launched the open beta for their web-based first-person shooter Fallen Empire: Legions. Think of it as Tribes light, with two different classes, two different maps, and two different gameplay modes currently available for your quick and dirty gaming pleasure – capture the flag and deathmatch. All you really need to know is that it’s a relatively simply yet generally satisfying FPS with jetpacks.
Playing requires you sign up for an account at InstantAction.com, GarageGames’ web-based gaming portal, which is completely free of charge and gives you access to the rest of their game stable as well, including Marble Blast Online and Rokkitball. Hop on over and give it a try!
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First announced back in September of last year, InstantAction.com is a web-based video game network created by GarageGames and IAC, featuring multiplayer action of all shapes and sizes with no downloads involved – basically workplace poison. Well now they’ve released said poison into the water supply, inviting the entire world to sign up for the site’s open beta. Games currently playable on the site include Marble Blast Online, Cyclomites, Think Tanks, and Screw Jumper, with the Tribes-like Fallen Empire: Legions on its way. Having spent a bit of time in the closed beta myself, all I can say is beware…the completely death of productivity lies within.
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This brief snippet of GarageGames’ Fallen Empires: Legions really looks like Tribes to me, but of course I just have a passing interest in the game. I’m not obsessed like lots of fans are. Tim Aste, the game’s project manager, told us that they definitely were taking the best of Tribes and trying to turn it into their own game:
“The approach we took when deciding what we would focus on when making this game was to attempt to find the core element that we all enjoyed about Tribes… after a bunch of discussion in which we attempted to break down ‘what made Tribes so much fun’… we hit upon the core element of ‘Freedom of Movement.
Freedom of movement is what it is all about. Instead of trying to recapture the same game play, we wanted something that captured the same feel.”
The video shows some of the experiments that the team has been doing to try and fine tune the player’s experience. Aste said the game will allow players to move on the ground and in the air and that both need to feel intuitive for it to work.
It’s always nice to put a name with a face. Late last year we posted about a leaked video of a Tribes-like web game from developer GarageGames. Now that web-based FPS has a name, and the name is Fallen Empires: Legions. Other than promising FPS gameplay “at its fastest and finest”, the release doesn’t really reveal any details, other than the fact that it will be a featured title at InstantAction.com, GG’s new web-based games service due to launch later this year. “This is a first person shooter built by hardcore gamers who are wildly passionate about the genre,” said Tim Aste, project director for Fallen Empire: Legions. “Legions won’t be just any ordinary jewel matching web game; in terms of graphics and gameplay it will set a new benchmark of what the future of gaming will be on the web.” From the video and screenshots I’ve seen so far, I’d say he’s right. Productivity is completely screwed.
