Dark Messiah of Might & Magic MP details

[CptStern]

this sounds like fun:

"The task belongs to Kuju, which is offering something a little more ambitious than four deathmatch levels and a capture the flag (though more basic deathmatch will be included). Essentially, it's a Team-Fortress style class game, married to some role-playing elements played across a string of Unreal-Tournament-style Assault maps. Except that's not very "essentially" at all. Explanation time.

The game is played across five maps, like a tug-of-war inversed. Starting at the centre one, a win or loss pushes the team one step back along the geographically-linked maps. That team loses again, and it's another step back to the final stronghold. A loss there loses the match. Of course, if one wins, it pushes back in the other direction. Played between Human and Undead teams, the final human fortress is shown off, where the defenders look down from sky-high crenulations and the attackers can push elaborate siege towers against the walls to gain access. The armies are comprised of five inter-supporting classes. For example, the human team consists of the Archer (sniper), Knight (melee warrior), Mage (offensive spells), Assassin (the stealth character, who mixes invisibility with similar disguise-self roles to Team Fotresses' spy) and the Priestess, who does healing-style group support.

mp featuring fps melee + classes + campaign across 5 maps = sold

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=64041

 

[Reginald]

Really looking forward to this. Mainly because people have said the game is like the lovechild of Oblivion and Hitman. That makes me happy. XD And this MP news makes me even happier. XD

 

[$kelet0r]

Isn't this the game that was meant to be showcasing the source engine months ago? or was that something else?

 

[CptStern]

no I think this is it ..after playing Oblivion I had misgivings about the sp (linear shooter) but the mp looks like fun

 

[JNightshade]

That's... excellent

 

[Iced_Eagle]

That multiplayer just sounds amazing.

I might be picking this one up

 

[VictimOfScience]

Hmm, that's an interesting take on MP. Might be great, but I am afraid Oblivion has sort of ruined me for the SP. Still, its a different type of game, so we'll just have to see how it turns out!

 

[Lucid]

Sounds awesome, I'm really looking forward to this game.

The melee combat looks a helluva lot better than Oblivion's.

 

[Asuka]

Sounds interesting ill look into more.