Crime MMO APB Receiving Public Beta

June 10, 2008 9:00 AM

Realtime Worlds today unveiled its plans to host a "full public beta of APB," its upcoming crime-based MMO due out on PC and Xbox 360. Helmed by Grand Theft Auto creator David Jones, the studio's first release was the open world title Crackdown (360).

The news and two new bits of character art were tucked away within the announcement of Chris 'Ulric' Dye as the game's community relations manager.

According to business manager Mario Rizzo, Dye's hiring "signals the start of a new phase for APB where we can interact more fluidly with both gaming sites, and our potential future player base. This is an important milestone for the game now that we are transitioning into Alpha and moving towards the full public beta of APB."

Alpha and beta tests are relatively common for massively mutliplayer online efforts, though they often occur within the confines of an closed, invite-only environment. No timeframe or platform details were provided for the public beta, though the game is expected to launch in 2009.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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mittense

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June 10, 2008 9:03 AM

http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=10033&game_id=5223&id=120975

What.

I want this game.
- Iwannaacura
  
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  June 10, 2008 9:04 AM
  
  me too, if i can be a thug girl with a gat would be gold. Like my bitch in Gta4 online
  - mittense
    
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    June 10, 2008 9:06 AM
    
    She's like a gambling, cowboy, uzi-touting thug, japanime, western courtesan.
  - Chris Faylor
    
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    June 10, 2008 9:34 AM
    
    It's supposed to have a very very robust character customization toolset.
    - A Sponge
      
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      June 10, 2008 9:39 AM
      
      Terrible audio but: http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/17691
      - AgentPothead
        
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        June 10, 2008 9:52 AM
        
        Jesus that looks to be on par with oblivion custimization if not better.
        
        Porkasaurus
        
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        June 10, 2008 10:28 AM
        
        You haven't played Oblivion in a while - this makes Oblivion characters look like mongoloids.
        
        AgentPothead
        
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        June 10, 2008 10:38 AM
        
        Well I think each race model cannot be as varied as in this game, but oblivion offers what, 6 different races? I'm pretty sure everybody in this game will be classified as meat popsicle human.
      - AgentPothead
        
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        June 10, 2008 9:54 AM
        
        Ahahah holy fuckin awesome, make sure you watch to the end, they even make a Miyamoto
        
        Iwannaacura
        
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        June 10, 2008 10:28 AM
        
        yea that vid was posted a couple months ago, wish there was new footage... i wanna see female models.
        
        I'm sure i can cyber some dudes for free moneyz/gunz
      - bakanoodle
        
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        June 10, 2008 10:47 AM
        
        that is so awesome