Seoul-based developer Reloaded Studios has sent along some concept art of The Day, its forthcoming CryENGINE 2-powered PC MMO.
Said to feature "a wickedly interconnected time-traveling storyline" and focus on on action-based combat, The Day is slated for a 2010 release.
"Ever heard of Reloaded Studios? What, you haven't? Well, neither had I until I heard that they were working on a MMO that will reap the benefits of the all powerful CryEngine2. Okay, now for the burning question: "Is it even possible to run an MMO on CryEngine, let alone CryEngine2?"
In the MMO world of the future, the past is the greatest natural resource.
Spiffy
Awesome time-travel premise; player-alterable landscape; action-oriented and vehicular combat.
Iffy
Can an MMO work with such a resource-intensive graphics engine?
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
With these words, Doc Brown ushers Marty McFly and Lorraine Baines into the future from the driver's seat of a tricked-out De Lorean. 1UP loves time travel, and not just in the goofy Back to the Future sense. The concept remains one of the enduring dreams of science fiction -- and it's the whole point of Reloaded Studios' upcoming MMO, The Day. By the early signposts, Reloaded is building a fairly familiar game -- multiple races and classes, skills and professions, quests and loot -- around this big idea. Players choose one of two factions (on one side, the nobly oppressed; on the other, the power-hungry dominators) to engage in a constant power struggle and endless PVP battles. An unplayable third-party bad guy, currently called "The Arch Enemy," acts as the story driver.
