More On The Crossing

From reading the article, I think there is more actually: people playing the story will join existing team deathmatch and integrate this shared experience as part of their story, then they move on to a different mission, etc...
I guess that's what they call Crossplayer.

Perfect Dark had a mode similar to this, was pretty fun.

It sounds good, if done correctly. I'm sure when a person replaces the AI they will be given an objective. If you see in any SP FPS game, the AI is always in a place doing something like protecting an area or the like. If anything I think this idea would be great because it would mean that these areas would require a much more focused mission design for both the person playing as the "AI" and the person going through the levels.

I got the new issue a few days ago, and I'm reading the full article on this game, getting my gamer hard-on, then at the end it said not until 2008, and i went limp. But I love the idea of logging on and put into someones SP mission, either helping or hindering.

where AI can be taken over by online players

sounds bad.

The little infoboxes in this article are crap! What is this? Contextual Hyperlink 2.0? I call it SneakAds 1.5.
"single player" infos to "online dating", "First Person Shooter" infos to "person - Shopping.com", "multiplayer" infos to "New Jeep Commander at CarMax.com" "game's server" infos to "Find server at findstuff.com"...Only "game design" infoing to "westwood.edu" and "Half Life 2 Mod" infoing to Half-Life 2 at Shopping.com" make any sense at all.

Hellgate: Paris?

Man, you guys are a bunch of whiny bitches. A developer finally comes up with an idea for an FPS that is genuinely creative and everybody just starts crapping all over it.

Admittedly, the idea is not an easy one to get working right, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't even try! If nobody ever steps out of the box to try and innovate we'll be stuck playing Quake and Half-Life remakes for the rest of our lives. That doesn't sound too great to me.

You can all keep tooting your little negativity horns, I'm going to applaud the developer. Playing against live opponents is 10x the rush of playing against AI. If they can make it work in a story-based game, then awesome! If not, then they will have at least paved the way for another developer to try again. Go, go Arkane!

Don't you guys have any friends that are into CO-OP? What are you so worried about?

Well real players can be lame sometimes. They do stupid things like bunnyhop like a fool and swear at you.

Well that sounds pretty damned interesting

That sure looks like a very original game.. (both the setting and the design..). Still a bit early to talk about it though..

I saw this in Barnes and Noble yesterday. The environments and models look pretty fantastic. Arkane's source models always seem to be top notch.

I'm thinking of subscribing to this magazine, they have really good exclusives lately.

Oh goodie... all sorts of fabulously unique video game concepts - failed state + parallel universe + knights templar = win