14 DAY TRIAL // All Points Bulletin is one of the most interesting MMO projects coming up for release in 2010 and there surely are players bored of fantasy multiplayer online worlds who are eager to jump into a fully detailed city to wage street battles either on the side of the law or against it. For all those people, the developers have great news, announcing at the recent Penny Arcade Expo that the closed beta for APB is set to be offered in a few weeks.
Chris Collins, who serves as a community officer for Realtime Worlds, talked to Eurogamer and stated that “We're weeks rather than months away from starting closed beta.” His words seem to be confirmed by the fact that the official site for the game is accepting beta applications at the moment, although it's not clear how many people will be able to get into the beta and what the criteria for their selection will be in the end.
APB is set to be published by Electronic Arts and the company has said that it plans to deliver it on the PC at some point early in 2010. Realtime Worlds has also said that it is thinking about creating a console version of the MMO but it has not confirmed its existence.
APB is set to offer an experience unlike any other MMO available now. Players will be able to fully customize their characters, going as far as determining how much the veins on their neck should be bulging. In the game world that will be delivered without loading times and with staggering complexity, each player will join a criminal gang or an enforcer crew and battle it out in the urban environment using a variety of weapons.
Realtime Worlds is also saying that the game will probably not use the classic subscription mode powering paid MMO leader World of Warcraft, which might draw in even more players.