14 DAY TRIAL // Rockstar Games has just unveiled an impressive feature that will be introduced in the upcoming Max Payne 3, in the form of Crews, which are basically a cross between clans from multiplayer shooters and guilds from online games. What’s more, these Crews will be carried over into the future Grand Theft Auto V title.
Rockstar is working on quite a few big projects nowadays, including Max Payne 3, which arrives this May, and Grand Theft Auto V, that’s out sometime this year or maybe in 2013.
The company’s Co-Founder, Dan Houser, has now talked about these two games and highlighted to IGN a very special feature that will appear in Max Payne 3 and then migrate to GTA V, in the form of Crews.
"Crews are groups of players that you can join up with via the Social Club that go beyond what's possible by using your Xbox or PS3 friends list, and joining crews will have benefits both in-game and out. There are two types of crews - private crews for you and your friends to create and customise, and public crews open to everyone."
As many online game fans can tell, these Crews are a mix between clans and guilds, as members can easily interact with each other and perform specific objectives across the multiplayer Gang Wars mode from Max Payne 3.
"Performing tasks with crew members - like avenging a fallen Crew member or killing rival ones during a Feud - will earn you XP bonuses. As a casual player of multiplayer, it will be easy to quickly reap at least some of the benefits of being in a crew. In addition, there are no member caps on public crews, so thousands of players across the world can join the same crew. Alternatively, Private Crews provide an exclusive group experience for players that want to take it to the next level."
What’s more, the Rockstar executive has confirmed that the Crews that will be created for Max Payne 3 will be available in the multiplayer mode of GTA V.
"Multiplayer is an ever-more important part of all our games moving forward. And by creating crews through Social Club, the crews that you create in Max Payne 3 will be ready and available for you to play in Grand Theft Auto V from day one,” he said. "It's all part of our larger approach to make multiplayer deeper and richer than what's currently available, much more easily accessible to the newcomer and rewarding for the hardcore.”
What do you think? Is this new feature a great addition to the two games or will you just rely on your own skills during their multiplayer modes?