Meteor Games upcoming Twin Skies is a web-based MMO as well as a more "traditional" online game, where players will have the option of playing the game through the dedicated client or via a web browser. Naturally the dedicated game client will offer a significant bump in visual quality, but the same basic gameplay will be available. This is nice for those times when a certain family computer is being overtaken with homework or during vacations.
Via Massively: "You may remember Twin Skies from our extensive interview with Meteor Games at PAX earlier this year. The game looked very promising and we had nothing but good things to say about it. In a surprising announcement made today, we get word that they're actually scrapping the 3D part of the project to focus on the Flash-based content, making some storyline changes and turning it into a free-to-play model."
Without a doubt, the free-to-play MMO market is booming right now. The creators of Neopets have formed a new company, Meteor Games, and decided to throw their name into the hat with their new social network and MMO hybrid, Twin Skies. This new development studio hopes that their dark fantasy (think Labyrinth) MMO can carve out it's own niche through it's heavy social emphasis and neat browser-client crossover technology.
4CR got the chance to sit down with Tom Mannino and Jeff Pellegrin and take a deeper look at Twin Skies.
Sure, StarCraft 2 was great, but it's StarCraft. The Escapist expected that. These five games came out of nowhere (well, most of them) and ended up being some very pleasant surprises. Some had some fantastic ideas, some were just charming, some were just plain neat ... or any combination thereof.
