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Citizen Zero Confirmed
Long-rumored MMOG is definitely Xbox-bound.
April 29, 2004 - Citizen Zero should not be a surprise to anyone. The PC title, long-rumored for Xbox and seen at GDC 2004, is now official. Though a publisher hasn't been announced (our bet is Microsoft will be taking CZ under its wing at E3), developer Microforte's website offered new info on the title.
The entire game takes place on Typhron, a futuristic off-world penal colony that has lost contact with Earth and has imposed a permanent lock-down. Each prisoner has an inhibitor chip that keeps them limited to certain areas, but you play one of the few who has managed to disable their chip. Dubbed a "Zero," you have free reign to walk the entire planet (however large that may actually be in-game). Citizen Zero promises a variety of locales and won't limit players to being stuck in some prison yard where the only sight for miles is dirty gray walls. Outside of the prison enclave there's wilderness to explore and even Machina ruins of an ancient civilization.
Assembling a clan or playing alone is up to you, but obviously clan-play will be predominant on the massively multiplayer prison colony which is expected to support roughly 40 players on Xbox and possibly more on PC. Join the Marines or the street-savvy Syndicate or any of the other three NPC factions. You'll even have a place to crash as clans (smaller groups of people within a faction) can have their own upgradable headquarters.
Don't expect to have just a couple of attacks to last you across dozens of hours of play as Zeroes have hundreds of special class abilities, combo attacks, and intense takedowns to keep things interesting and varied. Of course, not all of those moves are available immediately. You need to level-up to unlock special powers, items (over a thousand exist in the game) and new missions.
As this is an MMO, don't expect any sort of linear progression, but a fully interactive world with dynamic mission objectives and even linked missions that make for long-term quests. In other words, whenever you log on, your persistent world will have something exciting going on.
We'll have more on Citizen Zero at E3 in May.
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/510/510079p1.html
Citizen Zero Confirmed
Long-rumored MMOG is definitely Xbox-bound.
April 29, 2004 - Citizen Zero should not be a surprise to anyone. The PC title, long-rumored for Xbox and seen at GDC 2004, is now official. Though a publisher hasn't been announced (our bet is Microsoft will be taking CZ under its wing at E3), developer Microforte's website offered new info on the title.
The entire game takes place on Typhron, a futuristic off-world penal colony that has lost contact with Earth and has imposed a permanent lock-down. Each prisoner has an inhibitor chip that keeps them limited to certain areas, but you play one of the few who has managed to disable their chip. Dubbed a "Zero," you have free reign to walk the entire planet (however large that may actually be in-game). Citizen Zero promises a variety of locales and won't limit players to being stuck in some prison yard where the only sight for miles is dirty gray walls. Outside of the prison enclave there's wilderness to explore and even Machina ruins of an ancient civilization.
Assembling a clan or playing alone is up to you, but obviously clan-play will be predominant on the massively multiplayer prison colony which is expected to support roughly 40 players on Xbox and possibly more on PC. Join the Marines or the street-savvy Syndicate or any of the other three NPC factions. You'll even have a place to crash as clans (smaller groups of people within a faction) can have their own upgradable headquarters.
Don't expect to have just a couple of attacks to last you across dozens of hours of play as Zeroes have hundreds of special class abilities, combo attacks, and intense takedowns to keep things interesting and varied. Of course, not all of those moves are available immediately. You need to level-up to unlock special powers, items (over a thousand exist in the game) and new missions.
As this is an MMO, don't expect any sort of linear progression, but a fully interactive world with dynamic mission objectives and even linked missions that make for long-term quests. In other words, whenever you log on, your persistent world will have something exciting going on.
We'll have more on Citizen Zero at E3 in May.
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/510/510079p1.html
