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MMO PC Xbox 360 News by Oli Welsh

5 August, 2008

Talking to videogaming247, Realtime Worlds' Colin Macdonald said that crime MMO All Points Bulletin is everything creator Dave Jones has wanted to do since he started work on the first GTA.

"It's the bastard child of everything we've been striving towards over the 15-20 years that Realtime Worlds, DMA and David Jones have been making games," confirmed Macdonald.

"It's where we want to go in terms of sandbox gameplay and everything that started with Grand Theft Auto and was evolving through Crackdown."

Dave Jones founded DMA Design 20 years ago and was instrumental in the creation of the first Grand Theft Auto. He founded Realtime Worlds after DMA was acquired by Rockstar.

"It's just what the company was set up to do, what Dave's always wanted to do, from GTA and before Crackdown and APB," observed Macdonald.

And selling it back to Rockstar as GTA Online would bring the process full circle - but that's no more than a rumour at present.

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Adam_T
05/08/08 @ 09:15
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Looking forward to this! :D
DUFFMAN5
05/08/08 @ 09:22
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Bring it.
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05/08/08 @ 09:36
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It's BRING IT! Duffman, not bring it.
louyfitz
05/08/08 @ 09:40
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Cant wait for this game, no one has even given a rough date :(

09 I reckon, maybe 2010, will be worth the wait.

*says goodbye to social life*
syphaa
05/08/08 @ 09:44
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Does sound sweet as.
Hopefully it will be the Dev's utter most perfection of what they see a title to be.

Could be amazing, but if its not out for a couple of years it will have to seriously keep up with the way the industry is moving, tech wise aswell. Such a long development could cause this title to get left behind a bit.
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05/08/08 @ 09:54
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Very true, when you see titles that take more than 2-3 years to come out they always look dated on release.

but if you think about it even now when I load up Crackdown it still looks beautiful.

if they can capture that with APB, RTW will be laughing in their swimming pool full of cash.
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05/08/08 @ 10:02
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I remember there was an arcade game way back called APB - i wonder if it was by the same guys? I seem to remember it was quite fun but then again i was about 7 so most things were....
the_dudefather
05/08/08 @ 10:17
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@Nexus 6
there was also an old megadrive(?) game called Crack down if I remember right :)
Kazzahdrane
05/08/08 @ 10:19
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@dudefather:

Think Crackdown (the retro one) is available or coming soon to the Virtual Console :-)
Peew971
05/08/08 @ 11:56
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Microsoft should buy Realtime before EA or Activision does.
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So when are we starting a Group, so we can all put our names down, to be on line together. Hopefully my baby son will be sleeping by then, he is playing havoc (!) with my game time :)
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05/08/08 @ 12:42
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With no change in the status of this "RTW selling APB to R* as GTA Online" rumour since it was first floated, is it really necessary to mention it in every APB article on Eurogamer?
Oli [staff]
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aniki - I've just checked and this is the first time we've mentioned it since we ran that original story. I thought it was relevant to the quote, since Macdonald mentioned GTA, that's all.
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@Kazzahdrane

It was released for the Virtual Console last year, but it's not really worth it... especially when you can easily play by other means... ;-)

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