| |
| Huxley - E3 Preview |
|
| by Jason "Rodzilla" Rodzik |
|
| Posted on May 11, 2006 |
|
“Huxley is a massively multiplayer online first-person shooting game developed by the H-Studio of global online entertainment company, Webzen Inc. Huxley takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where human beings have mutated and are divided into two opposing races, Sapiens and Alternative. At the center of the battle for survival is Lunarites, a promising new energy source that both sides seek to obtain. Forced to battle against one another for the continuance of each race, Sapiens and Alternatives are willing to do whatever it takes to wipe out the conflicting race and gain control of the world and its resources.”
After a few minutes of direction from one of Huxley’s developers, I was already destroying the poor players who happened to be on the other team. The gameplay that was demonstrated was fairly similar to Unreal Tournament’s Onslaught gametype, as players had to capture various outposts and defend the outposts they already controlled. Unfortunately, only about a dozen or so people were playing, and both teams were guarding their single outpost, leaving me to try and take out the entire enemy team on my own.
H-Studio stated that they expect the game to be able to support around 2500-5000 people in a single game, which should lead to some extremely intense and chaotic battles over the control of the outposts. The game included the standard fare of weapons, including the rocket launcher and grenade launcher, and some flying vehicles were also scattered throughout the map.
|
|
