Plenty of massively multiplayer online role-playing games attempt to fulfil the promise of easy-in, easy-out gameplay to appease folks that don’t have a great deal of time on their hands and just want a quick fighting fix. Rift might be the first MMORPG to deliver. More »
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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.
