Nothing comes close, it's well structured to enforce roles in it's role-play. Pretty inspiring design, to me anyway. It really made it hard to play if your not into role-play to begin with though... I dunno how the LED dealt with commaning officers.
There *are* games that allow a deep sense of politics (Wurm, Xsyon, ATitD, HnH, MO, Darkfall, EVE), but they lack that preset structure that reinforces the rules. The mission system was simple, but it got people to do something in their role. Cops got missions to search for criminal players and arrest them, miners got missions to mine, and it all fit into the ecology of each planet owned. Nothing really does that.
Gameplay-wise?
APB is coming back as F2P. It really wasn't bad imo, I spent a lot of time with dudes I game with doing group missions and dominating.
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Politicallly?
Nothing comes close, it's well structured to enforce roles in it's role-play. Pretty inspiring design, to me anyway. It really made it hard to play if your not into role-play to begin with though... I dunno how the LED dealt with commaning officers.
There *are* games that allow a deep sense of politics (Wurm, Xsyon, ATitD, HnH, MO, Darkfall, EVE), but they lack that preset structure that reinforces the rules. The mission system was simple, but it got people to do something in their role. Cops got missions to search for criminal players and arrest them, miners got missions to mine, and it all fit into the ecology of each planet owned. Nothing really does that.
Gameplay-wise?
APB is coming back as F2P. It really wasn't bad imo, I spent a lot of time with dudes I game with doing group missions and dominating.
Writer / Musician / Game Designer
Now Playing: Skyrim, Wurm Online, Tropico 4
Waiting On: GW2, TSW, Archeage, The Rapture
Its a damn shame, lmao. FoM was revolutionary.
i can only think of Planet Calypso as a FoM alternative... PC is from the same people who made project entropia
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check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=155D7_Evkqo&feature=related