Carry Out Your Global Agenda February 1st

John Funk

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Carry Out Your Global Agenda February 1st



Strap on your jetpack, Agents - third-person "spy-fi" MMOG Global Agenda will be hitting stores February 1st.

Global Agenda, developed by Georgia-based Hi-Rez Studios (East Coast games industry, represent!) is a sci-fi class-based third-person shooter set in a dystopian future where humanity is ruled by the repressive Commonwealth. The game is a hybrid, featuring a free-to-play element of PvP deathmatches and cooperative PvE as well as a subscription-based MMOG-esque service called Global Agenda: Conquest that lets rival Agencies control territory and vie for domination on a persistent world map. You also have jetpacks, and jetpacks are completely awesome. Or, in the developers' words:

[blockquote]As a special agent playing only the non-subscription features, you may fully level up to eight different agent characters, participating in both player-vs-player and cooperative player-vs-environment missions, as you fight to overturn the totalitarian one-world government, The Commonwealth, and establish yourself inside the game world.

Players in Global Agenda: Conquest form their own groups, called Agencies. These Agencies conquer territory, construct facilities, manufacture vehicles, raid bases, and engage in formal and informal alliances and betrayals on their way toward world domination. The Conquest gameplay will revolve around player-driven politics and emergent gameplay with each battle being resolved via squad-based combat.
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The game now has a release date - February 1st - and is available for pre-order via the official website [http://www.globalagendagame.com/preorder.html], Steam, and Amazon.com. Naturally, there'll be a limited edition set out as well (available via Amazon and the game's website) that includes a poster and an art book. From the press release, though, it seems that this is less just a concept art book and more an alternate history tome that "explores the historical events leading to the creation of the single, totalitarian world government called Commonwealth, as well as the emerging resistance to the Commonwealth, and the current competition for limited resources and scarce inhabitable land that exists in the year 2155 when the player enters the world."

Sounds groovy to me - I love little extras like that. Preordering will also net you a special in-game helmet and memorabilia celebrating the game's "No Elves" campaign [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escapist-news-network/1097-Sorcerers-Demand-Equal-Rites].

Oh hey, and would you look at that - we have a hands-on Preview [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/6898-Preview-Global-Agenda] that went up on the site today! Geez, what a coincidence - it's almost like we planned this or something.

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Danny Ocean

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Looks like I'll need to make some more groups for the PC clan! [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.81348#1081992]

No rest for the wicked, huh?
 

Amnestic

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Image is broken for me.

Might check this out, but nothing I've seen of it so far has set my world on fire. Think I'll wait a while after release before I take a peak at it and wait for initial player response first.
 

VitusPrime

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CantFaketheFunk said:
Oh hey, and would you look at that - we have a hands-on Preview [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/6898-Preview-Global-Agenda] that went up on the site today! Geez, what a coincidence - it's almost like we planned this or something.
I see what you did there
 

Jared

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VitusPrime said:
CantFaketheFunk said:
Oh hey, and would you look at that - we have a hands-on Preview [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/6898-Preview-Global-Agenda] that went up on the site today! Geez, what a coincidence - it's almost like we planned this or something.
I see what you did there
lol, indeed!

Well, Ill certainly give it a shot. be intresting the very least!
 

timmytom1

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This sounds like tribes meeets eve online ,which is no bad thing i guess have to wait and see
 

WolfLordAndy

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I played it in Alpha and it was a bit meh. Played again in Beta and it had bulked out alot, but the gameplay just didn't grab me.

Think 3rd person TF2, with jetpacks and stats. (You can up your damage resistance to certain types of fire, either engi/tank/medic/recon).

The conquest mode didn't seem that great, but I'd imagine the free to play content is alright for a casual blaster, easy to get into play a few matches, and then log off.

Best ask someone that was in the later end of the Beta probably though!
 

Doug

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I'd like to try a demo first, especially of this MMOFPS mode. I'm just not convinced yet it'll be the answer I'm looking for when it comes to MMOFPS's (WWII online was abit naff, Planetside is virtually dead, and this game seems to divide the map up into 64 team death matches).
 

WolfLordAndy

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Doug said:
I'd like to try a demo first, especially of this MMOFPS mode. I'm just not convinced yet it'll be the answer I'm looking for when it comes to MMOFPS's (WWII online was abit naff, Planetside is virtually dead, and this game seems to divide the map up into 64 team death matches).
Its worse then 64 team death match, it does have objects like TF2 (i.e. capture points/demolition targets) but the "big" fights are actually lots of small matches being played at the same time, that help eachother by opening forcefields for the attackers on each others maps. You only ever have 12v12 in one map at a time. (Unless they upped that cap)
 

Doug

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WolfLordAndy said:
Doug said:
I'd like to try a demo first, especially of this MMOFPS mode. I'm just not convinced yet it'll be the answer I'm looking for when it comes to MMOFPS's (WWII online was abit naff, Planetside is virtually dead, and this game seems to divide the map up into 64 team death matches).
Its worse then 64 team death match, it does have objects like TF2 (i.e. capture points/demolition targets) but the "big" fights are actually lots of small matches being played at the same time, that help eachother by opening forcefields for the attackers on each others maps. You only ever have 12v12 in one map at a time. (Unless they upped that cap)
Ergh... ok, this isn't the game I'm looking for. I'll have to hope Dust 514 or Huxley manages to pull it off, but MMOFPS's don't seem to be taking off so well.
 

TsunamiWombat

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I saw this an IMMEDIATLY preordered. It's worth mentioning that Pre Ordering thru steam gets you into Beta, though Beta Testing for the last phase ENDED yesterday, so the next time we can actually play is to be announced.
 

Boxinatorizore

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I've been following this game for months and I can't wait to play, I'm pre-ordering as soon as I have the money. I mean massive clan wars with player run politics! It's gonna be great!
 

Valiance

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Couple of my friends are playing the beta and they love it more than I would ever expect these shooter-freaks to enjoy a MMO.

It must be good.

I've heard it's sorta like guild-wars with a lot of instancing and a central-hub and then from there you go off and join separate games.