Screenshots Released for CrimeCraft MMO

I meant Jack Thompson

Controversial violence of GTA + addictiveness of a MMO = Oh god...

I love to see usernames in the game that has something to do with Jack Thompson. We all know that at least one person is going to be Jack Thompson in this game.

@GRIZZAM 512

I believe he attacked it when he said it was being marketed to children when he saw the advertisement while he was watching WWE. :P

They are so gonna get sued.


Can't wait until all of the Right-Wingers find out about it, then we all will be in for hell.

..... I can see it now:
"All my son does is play real-life 'cops and robbers' with his friends until finally one day they decide to rob a REAL bank and shoot at REAL cops"

On an other note, I would like to see a good MMO that doesn't try (yet again) to emulate WOW's game play system.

@Andy_UK

NAW, there's going to be MAGIC BULLETS!

[...] wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptLooking very much like a massively multiplayer Grand Theft Auto clone, Vogster’s CrimeCraft has been slated for release in early 2009. While the official website offers little aside from a logo, some screenshots have been released. Also, there’s the CrimeCraft Wikipedia entry. With what will likely be thousands of players engaged in live, online GTA-like action, expect CrimeCraft to be controversial when it launches. [...]

i'm waiting for the "controversy" of Age of Conan (M-rated. full gore and some nudity, too)

@ DCOW

Chuckles!!! Magic Bullets!!!!

shit name for the game ain't it!!!!

Sounds like a fun game.

I'm sorry, i can't get past the game's title. 'Crimecraft?' Does every MMO on the market HAVE to have 'craft' in the title?

What's the sequel called? 'Crimecraft 2: EverCrime?'

Actually, Realtime World's A.P.B. has a similar premise and is likely to be more popular- given the fact Microsoft is publishing.

LFM Bank Heist... need dps and getaway car... full on hunters

@ Sithlibrarian

Well what do you know... actually sounds like an interesting concept.

"- ownership of real-estate and cars"
easy to do

"- possibility to run shops, warehouses, banks, productions"
Selling stuff at fixed prices,monitoring bots(becuse you wont be doing every lil thing)...managing a drug making outfit that makes drugs should be interesting,I wonder if they will let you put cut coke with rat poison :0

"- fight over territories and clan wars"
easy enough to do

"- combat system unique for MMO"
I can see a auto aim action based system with lite to hit rolls similar to GTA its this or more 3rd person action.

"- developed social system. Possibility to solve conflicts without a single shot

- a possibility to choose law-obeying, criminal or financial professions and changing of those throughout the game.
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Interesting I can see how this would work from playing fallout, but...mmmmmm lets jsut see how deep this is...

Crimecraft? What do they think adding the word Craft to the game will increase sales because people will think WoW when they see the title? Only way I can see sales increasing for this game is if there is a huge controversy and people just buy it to stick it to those complaining about the game. Hell it works for R* every time they put out a game.

anyone remember spycraft?
Lets give them a benefit of the doubt until the gameplay is known to suck.

I smell a lawsuit coming. Are they really so creatively bankrupt that they have to leverage somebody elses name just to succeed?

The name reeks like a mountain of used diapers sitting in intense sunlight, but the game itself looks more awesome than a Chuck Norris beard-hair under an electron microscope.

I will buy it, and I will play as Jack Thompson. Just because.

DavCube
Ya but any game to have I dunno life mimicking violence is going to be paraded in front of the population and whipped until everyone gets bored.

Catch 33
Personally I already hate the game ^^ can't stand gang themes and generic 3rd person X gernes.

I forsee an inevitable lawsuit by Blizzard against this game's title. I'm not normally in favor of such lawsuits, but by calling it "Crimecraft", they are looking to associate this game with blizzard's warcraft or starcraft. I'm sure Blizzard will want nothing to do with this steaming pile of code, especially when the inevitable "protect our children" march reaches their doors.

Everyone who is trashing this game should ease up. At least wait until we know more than it's name and genre or you are making the same mistake politicians and pundits do when they condemn a video game without knowing anything about it. Just give the game a chance. If you don't, then you might miss out on something you would have enjoyed.

I don't think it's a blatant rip-off, although there's no denying the appearance of such, because "crime" is obviously a big part of the game", or which there is a certain "craft" to. It also drives the core of the game home very well.

However, the name still stinks in the way I previously mentioned, because there are far more creative ways of naming such a game, especially since it's an MMO.

"Countless Roads" would've been cool, although it also could've been interpreted in many ways by any who merely heard the name, which Vogster clearly didn't want. I can't blame them for that, because my methods, however more creative, are undeniably similar.

@ Geno:

Actually, it's Take Two's part that would be necessary to draw attention for old Jacky Boy. He's never railed against the actual makers of the GTA series, at least not to my knowledge and/or memory.