Hi-Rez Studios Announces Spy-Fi Action MMORPG Using Unreal Engine 3
Global Agenda - Espionage and Covert Operations Online
ATLANTA, Georgia ? March 1, 2007 ? Hi-Rez Studios, an independent developer of online entertainment, announced today that their debut title will be a mission-based action MMORPG using Unreal® Engine 3, set in a near future world of espionage and tactical covert operations. Global Agenda has been in development for over two years by a team of industry veterans. It features fast-paced ranged and close combat, RPG-style character progression, solo or cooperative team missions, and competitive play on a massive scale between player-created agencies.
A departure from the traditional online settings of high fantasy, outer space, or military, Global Agenda is set on 22nd century Earth. An invisible war is fought not with armies, but with elite teams of highly trained and well-equipped special agents, where technology is a race, knowledge is power, and everyone has an agenda.
"We want to provide players an engaging, next-generation tactical combat experience, but within the context of a single, evolving, massively multiplayer online world where actions have consequences", says Todd Harris, COO of Hi-Rez Studios. "Player-created agencies, with the right strategy and skill, can have a very real impact on each other and the world itself."
Key Planned Features
* Create, extensively customize, and develop an agent character that is unique within the world. Protect your secret identity through covert activity while increasing your skills and influence.
* Join a player-created agency, compete in a technology race for advanced weaponry, and advance your own agenda.
* Engage in solo, co-op, and team objective-based missions against non-player and other player-created agencies.
* Experience a dynamic world of espionage and intrigue, where in-game events and locations are influenced by the actions of players and agencies.
About Hi-Rez Studios
Hi-Rez Studios, Inc. was established in 2005 to create exceptional online interactive entertainment and is located just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.hirezstudios.com.
Unreal is a registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc.
There's another MMOFPS called Huxley that is similar to Global Agenda...but for some reason I like this game better. Huxley looks too Korean/Japanese for me.
There's another MMOFPS called Huxley that is similar to Global Agenda...but for some reason I like this game better. Huxley looks too Korean/Japanese for me.
But huxley is much further progressed and shows ingame movies...this one only shows a teaser trailer so basically the only thing you got to grasp what the game will be like is what they claim it will be...and you know how developers can make a mouse look like an elephant
Looks and sounds damn sweet, this is probably what Deus ex online would have looked like if it ever went online. But im not holding my breath, but still its looks really interesting.
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes" Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
Well as the trailer doesnt actually tell that much, I can assure you that there are very few games like this out there. What the game will feature and how well its going to be executed remains to be seen.
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes" Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
If its anything like a Ghost Recon MMORPG, it will likely be very successful. Im not a fan of those kinds of games, but there is definately a huge fan-base for them which currently dosnt have a tactical shooter mmo
Nah I still have to say thats its more like Deus Ex online, if that was ever made. Mainly because theres different secret player made factions, but then again its actually mostly because thats kinda how I have always thought how a Deus Ex would be if it was converted to an online player "made" world. But Ghost recon is a pure FPS, but it still remains to be seen if thats what this game is going to be like.
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes" Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
If you look carefully, when the guy is using a machine gun to shoot the other dude and hits those pillars, they actually shatter and collapse. If they have such destructible environments then this will be awesome.
Seems like the trailer is a blend of CG animation and ingame animation. So its hard to tell if there will be destructible enviroment in the game, but it would be really great if there is.
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes" Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
Jep thats what im afraid this game is just going to become. But I hope that it wont become just another online FPS.
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes" Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
Our alpha milestone this summer will involve friends and family playtesting the core game, which is up and running on internal servers. We are planning on another year of significant feature and content addition while slowly ramping up controlled testing. We have aggressive internal milestones but are not communicating any launch date externally because the quality of the game is much more important to us than hitting an arbitrary date
so, testing through summer with an additional year.. the game will come out in 2009 at the earliest but more than likely we can say 2010
you really think in 2010 this game will be that "Unreal"? My bet, it turns into vapor
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
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Would help if you knew the name or its "hook"
It may be a strictly foreign mmo, or a multiplayer game
www.hirezstudios.com/
The name is Global agenda
Hi-Rez Studios Announces Spy-Fi Action MMORPG Using Unreal Engine 3
Global Agenda - Espionage and Covert Operations Online
ATLANTA, Georgia ? March 1, 2007 ? Hi-Rez Studios, an independent developer of online entertainment, announced today that their debut title will be a mission-based action MMORPG using Unreal® Engine 3, set in a near future world of espionage and tactical covert operations. Global Agenda has been in development for over two years by a team of industry veterans. It features fast-paced ranged and close combat, RPG-style character progression, solo or cooperative team missions, and competitive play on a massive scale between player-created agencies.
A departure from the traditional online settings of high fantasy, outer space, or military, Global Agenda is set on 22nd century Earth. An invisible war is fought not with armies, but with elite teams of highly trained and well-equipped special agents, where technology is a race, knowledge is power, and everyone has an agenda.
"We want to provide players an engaging, next-generation tactical combat experience, but within the context of a single, evolving, massively multiplayer online world where actions have consequences", says Todd Harris, COO of Hi-Rez Studios. "Player-created agencies, with the right strategy and skill, can have a very real impact on each other and the world itself."
Key Planned Features
* Create, extensively customize, and develop an agent character that is unique within the world. Protect your secret identity through covert activity while increasing your skills and influence.
* Join a player-created agency, compete in a technology race for advanced weaponry, and advance your own agenda.
* Engage in solo, co-op, and team objective-based missions against non-player and other player-created agencies.
* Experience a dynamic world of espionage and intrigue, where in-game events and locations are influenced by the actions of players and agencies.
About Hi-Rez Studios
Hi-Rez Studios, Inc. was established in 2005 to create exceptional online interactive entertainment and is located just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.hirezstudios.com.
Unreal is a registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc.
www.hirezstudios.com/global_agenda.html
But huxley is much further progressed and shows ingame movies...this one only shows a teaser trailer so basically the only thing you got to grasp what the game will be like is what they claim it will be...and you know how developers can make a mouse look like an elephant
Looks and sounds damn sweet, this is probably what Deus ex online would have looked like if it ever went online. But im not holding my breath, but still its looks really interesting.
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes"
Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
MMORPG.COM has worst forum editor ever exists
Pardon me for not having broadband and being unable to watch a streaming HD video. Im so sorry to have offended you by using a dial-up modem.
Thank you, though, for your rudeness and ignorance. It's greatly appreciated.
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes"
Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes"
Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes"
Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
I just don't get why they do these games. I mean the hole idea is about have great graphics and then behind it, is just shoot to kill leveling game.
MMORPG.COM has worst forum editor ever exists
"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said..Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?...No, but i served in a company of heroes"
Sgt. Mike Ranney E-company 506PIR 101'st airborn
Pardon me for not having broadband and being unable to watch a streaming HD video. Im so sorry to have offended you by using a dial-up modem.
Thank you, though, for your rudeness and ignorance. It's greatly appreciated.
Actually it's name is in the title at the site where you stream the video.
that video streaming script is unreal too.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
Our alpha milestone this summer will involve friends and family playtesting the core game, which is up and running on internal servers. We are planning on another year of significant feature and content addition while slowly ramping up controlled testing. We have aggressive internal milestones but are not communicating any launch date externally because the quality of the game is much more important to us than hitting an arbitrary date
so, testing through summer with an additional year.. the game will come out in 2009 at the earliest but more than likely we can say 2010
you really think in 2010 this game will be that "Unreal"? My bet, it turns into vapor
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
The teaser was beautiful, I loved the heater resembling robots. One thing I don't like already, I saw no player with boobies.