Gods & Heroes MMO Revived by Heatwave

by Chris Faylor, Feb 22, 2010 9:10am PST

Related Topics – Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising, PC, MMO

After being put on "indefinite hold" by defunct developer Perpetual in October 2007, mythological MMO Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising has now been resurrected.

Heatwave Interactive today announced that it has acquired the intellectual property rights to Gods & Heroes along with all game assets, including the two game engines Perpetual had created for Gods & Heroes and Star Trek Online. Shortly after halting work on Gods & Heroes, Perpetual shut down and the Star Trek Online rights went to Cryptic.

Also acquired was a license for the "online game publishing technology" PlayGrid Platform, with PlayGrid having been co-founded by Pepertual veteran Chris McKibbin.

No timeframe for the revived Gods & Heroes was provided, with McKibbin noting that "we at PlayGrid are thrilled to see Rome rise again with the Heatwave team." Thus far, Heatwave has released the iPhone App iSamJackson, and plans to launch its musician life simulator Platinum Life on "social networks and the web" in March 2010. A massively multiplayer game based on Platinum Life is currently in development as well.

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Looks interesting. MMos have seem to of gone down the crapper since Wow. So here's hoping for something fun.

Feb 22, 2010 9:39am PST

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Looks interesting. MMos have seem to of gone down the crapper since Wow. So here's hoping for something... : Azaziel
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  That sounds as if there was something better than wow before or after. Like it or not, but the gamedesign... : Johnnsen
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    There are elements of other games before WoW that were better, but then no game is perfect. Many people ... : synic0
    - Oh for games "after", FFXI's job system was pretty cool for hybrid classes or changing what class you are... : synic0
    - Asheron's call is 10 times the game WoW is or will ever be. The Story line in AC beats any mmo to date a... : Azaziel

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Played the beta of this. Seemed pretty solid from what I can remember, I certainly enjoyed what I played thats for sure but it's so many years ago I really can't remember any details. Looking forward to seeing how this pans out.

Feb 22, 2010 2:21pm PST

Played the beta of this. Seemed pretty solid from what I can remember, I certainly enjoyed what I played ... : kikinchaz

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I was very eager to play this game. This is good news. I'm sure it'll suck like pretty much all MMOs do, but I still wanna play it.

Feb 22, 2010 11:05am PST

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I was very eager to play this game. This is good news. I'm sure it'll suck like pretty much all MMOs do, ... : Ebu
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- This is good news? This is going to be a disaster - round 2. : Porkasaurus

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I enjoyed the beta before Perpetual closed down. Aside from performance issues the game seemed like it was pretty much ready for release so it should not take long for beta to start up again.

Feb 22, 2010 9:53am PST

I enjoyed the beta before Perpetual closed down. Aside from performance issues the game seemed like it wa... : Martinmas

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I was in the closed beta for a while and while the game had some good ideas the actual implimentation was lacking. The gameplay was the same old tired EverQuest model and the graphics were average with so-so performance.

One of the big features of the game, every player having a squad NPCs, got nerfed down from nine NPCs/squad to about two or three. It was mostly due to technical reasons, four or five players with a handful of NPCs each would have made the game crash, so maybe current hardware could pull it off.

The other big feature, unique combat animations, didn't work correctly many times.

Interesting to see what the new owner can do with the game/IP. Tolkein-style fantasy has gotten very stale for me and a "swords and sandels" setting would be very welcome.

Feb 22, 2010 9:53am PST

I was in the closed beta for a while and while the game had some good ideas the actual implimentation was... : MH Knights

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I'm sure these assets and the engines aren't outdated at all anymore. Good purchase.

Feb 22, 2010 9:27am PST

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I'm sure these assets and the engines aren't outdated at all anymore. Good purchase. : Sturm08
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  It looks decent enough if it's going to be F2P. After all, not everyone has a top of the line computer. H... : f1kt1t1ous
  - I love Source! It works so well b/c they have such great artists. Obviously I know nothing about this gam... : Sturm08

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I like the setting, but I don't see me trying another MMO unless its from Blizzard. Too unstable in its existence, quality, value.

Feb 22, 2010 9:13am PST

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  I get the sentiment but that's a grossly limited list you have there. : Jonathan
  - Well most things go down to "existence". Laggy servers, no content and so on always results in loss of pl... : Johnnsen

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