Cartoon Networking with Fusion Fall
Another tidbit from Polychrome’s recent return from Comic Con was her hands on time with Fusion Fall for the PC. It’s MMO set in a somewhat combined Cartoon Network world. Here’s a snippet of what she found.
The premise of the game is a bit on the silly side. Earth’s about to be assimilated by some weird blob of planets that have crashed into each other, and it shows a lot of *obvious* Toontown inspiration, but I got to try a gameplay demo, and I have to say that the work these guys have done is amazing, and the game will be smooth and enjoyable. It is skill based, and skills are based on collecting “nanos” (chibi versions of CN characters that float above your head). Each Nano has a spell or attack that will help you, but you can only take three with you at a time.
The *real* CN characters send you off on storyline-based missions. You can do missions for either good or evil characters, and you can play both sides if you wish. The premise of the game involves the fact that evil characters aren’t exactly immune to Earth getting sucked into a mass of planets either, so no matter which faction you lean towards, you’re helping save the day.
The game is *very* twitchy, uses the standard WASD control scheme, plays quite a bit like Phantasy Star Universe, and…oh yeah, Grim will turn up when you die.
PvP is still in conceptual stages (they haven’t finalized whether they’re even going to do it), but I can easily see it done with the combat system. With the controls and gameplay, it would likely be as frantic as playing Halo!
You can read her full impressions, right here.
-BrainBoxLtd
August 1st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
It looks fairly interesting. I’d hope they’d go for a one time buy like Guild Wars rather than pay monthly like World of Warcraft.