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General: The Mummy Online Announced
MikeB
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Universal Pictures and Bigpoint are partnering to deliver a new MMO based on the popular "The Mummy" film franchise.
The Mummy Online is a free-to-play action-RPG set to launch in Winter 2010, and will allow for players to explore early 20th century Egypt while battling each other and "ancient evil."Key characters and familiar environments from the film series will also appear in the game, digital Brendan Fraser, anyone?
A teaser website is availalbe here.
[Thanks Cecropia and eyeswideopen for the tips!]
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No Mike, no, please say it ain't so!
Why are all these new things 'Browser"?
Oh god......... I though that after the terrible third film they would stop milking the franchise. It seems I was wrong...
Yeah, I hated the third film Not good.
But still, I like "funny" and I like "funny" in conjunction with things that it would normally not be paired with.
An mmo based on this? I have my doubts. But we'll see. I mean "why"? Why not make a single player game with a robust multiplayer component?
Does this need to be a large virtual world? Though it might be more like STO or CoH? Well, we'll see.
The thing is, "funny" is like "horror". It has to be set up correctly and certain expectations need to be introduced so that we laugh or are scared.
So I am having my doubts as to how "funny" this will actually be and if it will really be a service to the source material.
Such as it is.
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Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
can everything be made MMO nowaday...I mean cmon...Mummy online, clone wars online, hello kitty online.... What's next ? Ninja turtle online, power ranger online...please stop this and come up with new ideas.
Video game market looks like Hollywood... recycling old stuff ,all the time. Like I said, I'd like to see more original IPs like Aion, The Secret World,etc.
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Kind of, just without the rapist.
April Fools AGAIN?
To be honest, and I hate too say this because it sounds overly negative, I don't think this project was born from the need to make a game but more out of a way to capitalize on a franchise.
It just smacks to me of some coporate suits thinking of ways to increase revenue based on what properties they have access to.
"hey, I know, mmo's seem all the rage! Why not an MMO based on 'The Mummy'"?
"There have been pirate mmo's and two STar Wars MMO's so there is precedence for movie tie-in mmo's."
At least that is how it sits with me. Still, it could be fun nevertheless. Or else not see the light of day like so many other projects.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
WAT
Currently Playing: DAOC Uthgard
Previously Played: UO, DAOC, Shadowbane, AC2, SWG, Horizons, COX, WOW, EQ2, LOTRO, AOC, WAR, Vanguard, Rift, SWTOR, ESO, GW2.
Damn, I was hoping for Killer Klowns from Outer Space online =(
The MMO industry is becoming more of a joke each day... This new project is the proof.
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RIP George Carlin.
This is pretty good... this is the first MMO that -- when announced -- has already missed its launch window!
Give my regards to King Tut, (i dare not type the rest lol).
worst...idea...for...a mmo....ever
and to think, some idiots sat around a table greenlighted this travesty thinking its a good idea
Oh the outrage! The horror!
How dare they try to make MONEY off of their intellectual property and give MMO players yet ANOTHER option, as well as introduce new potential MMO gamers to genre?
It's time for a revolution, and I'm well-prepared to execute it from my easy-chair!
Hold on a sec, my Hot Pocket (tm) just dinged...
....Seriously?
Rofl why would they want to make it an mmo? LoL it makes no sense. I can't figure out how that would even work...Dev studios need to stop selling out to these rich trust fund babies and venture capitalists that have hijacked the industry in order to exploit it.
The chances of this being good are slim as shit.
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What's next? Van Helsing Online !
In the land of Predators,the lion does not fear the jackals...
Maybe because MMOs are big business? Companies have been snatching up and exploiting IP from other franchises for as long as I've been alive. From sequels to McDonalds figurines to Lego sets, it's all about money.
What's so different about MMOs? Wake up and smell the profit.
And that is why this will be an Epic Fail.
And that is why...
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Well it's good to see the crap "make every movie into a terrible piece of crap console game" has spread over into MMOs, the destruction of the video game world has been completed.
Although I'm sure someone out there is trying to figure out how to preorder or get a lifetime sub and then will complain 2 weeks into the game about how it lacks content and isn't fun to play.
Oh well to bad, aonther pos to heap on the pile of other epic fail pos. Why is everybody going thr browser way.
Haha I didnt even notice that... That is HILARIOUS.
Play as your fav retro characters: cnd-online.net. My site: www.lysle.net. Blog: creatingaworld.blogspot.com.
Can you explain the "missed its launch window" comment? I don't get it.
I believe that if you took the world from the backdrop of the first two films (Circa second world war) with adventuring and tresure hunting and intrigue along with ORIGINAL content, then span England, USA, Canada, Japan, Tibet, Egypt, etcetera.
Also make it classless and skill/training based.
Cover issues like what is the difference between tomb raiding and protecting antiqueties and disturbing the sacresanct of other cultures.