Short description
There is only one city in the world where crime and justice meet in such an awe-inspiring clash of gunfire: San Paro. The time has come to claim the city as your own. Band together in a gang with friends, choose a side and design your Criminal or Enforcer, pick up your firearm and enter the melee! APB Reloaded (APB = All Points Bulletin) is a Free2Play® massively multiplayer online third-person shooter game, taking place in the modern-day fictional city of San Paro - and Iceberg Interactive will be bringing a boxed Special Edition to European retail with many bonus materials included. The open-world environment of APB Reloaded challenges players to find their way through a city in a state of near anarchy. Players can take up the role of either a Criminal or Enforcer to commit or stop petty crimes and gain notoriety within their own organizations in order to control the city. Be it on foot or from the driver's seat, APB Reloaded melds player-on-player combat within the immersive city teetering on the edge of total chaos. Powered by Epic’s Unreal 3 engine, APB Reloaded features a robust set of customization tools second to none, providing gamers the ability to create the exact look of their in-game avatar, personalized symbols, clothing, vehicles and in-game music.
Long description
APB Reloaded is the resurrected, free-to-play version of defunct developer Real Time Worlds' Grand Theft Auto-like online open-world shooter APB - All Points Bulletin. This retail version offers gamers the new "Street Racing" and "Turf War" game modes, as well as a third district known as "The Asylum."
APB - All Points Bulletin is a video game version of cops-and-robbers. Internet-connected players take the roles of "Enforcers" and "Criminals" in the large, urban game world of San Paro, where they battle one another in third-person shooter combat. To get from place to place in the freely roamed virtual city, characters can drive their own souped-up custom automobiles, or simply carjack the nearest model of choice, Grand Theft Auto-style. Characters aligned with the Criminal faction gain "notoriety" as they commit crimes and other dirty deeds. Higher notoriety leads to higher payouts for accomplishing missions, but it also makes the Criminal a higher-profile target for law enforcement officers. Similarly, Enforcer characters strive to maintain a high "prestige" rating, by preventing crimes and doing good in the world, thus gaining higher mission rewards as well as higher prices on their heads.
Thousands of computer-controlled civilians populate the streets of San Paro, all potential victims to rob or rescue. Human-controlled characters cannot engage one another, regardless of faction, until they have been matched in a mission. This ensures that player-versus-player combat is consensual and prevents characters from being killed in the crossfire of another match-up's battles. Although it takes place entirely in a multiplayer, persistent-world environment, All Points Bulletin is not a conventional "Massively Multiplayer Online" role-playing game. There is a limit of one hundred human players per server world, and the game is heavily action-oriented, without the hierarchal skill-leveling system of an RPG. There are abundant opportunities for character customization, however, including the purchase of bigger guns and faster cars that offer obvious advantages in combat on the city streets.
Players can change the appearance of their characters' cars and clothes in the city's social district, where there is no combat allowed. Extensive customization tools are available, and creative gamers can upload their best designs for sale to other players. The action takes place in San Paro's three main areas, the financial and waterfront districts and the asylum.
Special features
Fun and engaging online action in a highly detailed interactive city
Revolutionary customization system - players create their own avatars, music and vehicles and can modify them extensively
Unique game play mechanics with each “action district” supporting two rival factions, 100 players in 25 teams, 250 cars and 1,000 NPCs
Each game world handles 10,000 players
additional information
APB Reloaded is the resurrected, free-to-play version of defunct developer Real Time Worlds' Grand Theft Auto-like online open-world shooter APB- All Points Bulletin.