Korean game company Reloaded Studios, founded by industry veterans from Webzen, NCsoft, Phantagram and Capcom's StreetFighter comics, has announced The Day, a third-person massively multiplayer online action game (MMOG) with a heavy emphasis on player-versus-player (PvP) combat and a unique, immersive story.
Set in the near future, The Day finds mankind discovering a way to travel between two connected parallel worlds. Players will face a changing world never before seen in an online game as they travel back and forth between the past and present, accomplishing critical missions that extremely influence and affect their present-day world. With the fate of mankind at stake, players are thrown into brutal warfare and a fight to keep humanity from slipping into self-destruction across time. The Day is powered by CryENGINE 2.
"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.
I got a feeling were gonna see a lot done from the CryEngine2. Is this similar to that Huxley coming out for the Xbox 360? Sounds interesting.
@mighty Below, I'm sure when these games come out Graphics cards will be cheaper, it's all a cycle with PC Hardware upgrades and Cost.
It just doesn't stop. Sh^t will get cheaper then people upgrade. New cards come out and memory gets cheaper and HDDs.
so another gfame that only 1% of PC owners will be able to run?