Disney has just announced that they are creating a MMORPG based on their very popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise. The game will allow players to group up to form pirate crews and take on other players as well as the undead in a familiar setting. The full press release is below:
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Follow-up to Disneys Toontown Online Will Feature Interactive Adventures Inspired by the Popular Pirates Theme Park Attraction and Franchise
North Hollywood, Calif. - April 26, 2005 - Disney Online, part of the Walt Disney Internet Group, is developing a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the popular theme park attraction and franchise Pirates of the Caribbean. The game is slated to debut in summer 2006, coinciding with the theatrical premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest.
Weve learned through our experience with Toontown that the market for massively multiplayer online role-playing games can indeed reach beyond traditional gamers, stated Ken Goldstein, EVP and managing director, Disney Online. Pirates of the Caribbean is the perfect franchise for our second commercial effort in this arena. Fans of the movies and theme park attraction will be able to live their own unfolding pirate adventure through the game, including searching for lost treasures and battling numerous enemies on land and at sea.
Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, added, This is a great way for game enthusiasts to experience the fun and excitement of playing the role of a pirate while competing against a wide variety of opponents in a great adventure. This game captures the same swashbuckling sense of humor, spirit and action that moviegoers loved in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, and which will continue with the next installment of the highly anticipated sequel in summer 2006. Disney Online has created a really entertaining and challenging game that will appeal to the adventurer in all of us.
The game is being designed by the Walt Disney Internet Groups acclaimed VR Studio as a world of high seas action and adventure where players will personalize their own pirate character and organize with other players to form a pirate crew. Players will then embark on swashbuckling missions to battle both each other and the evil, undead pirates of the high seas in an effort to become the Caribbeans most legendary pirate. Access to the game will be available directly online and players will pay a subscription fee for the service. An information site for the game has been launched at www.pirateslegend.com offering a registration service to sign-up to receive future game updates and launch information.
Buena Vista Games (BVG), the videogame arm of The Walt Disney Company, will release additional titles based on "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest" for the PSP portable entertainment system and Nintendo DS in conjunction |
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Thar be plenty o' room fer two buccanneer games if one be made by Disney an' be guaranteed t' be super sucktastic.
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Disney? MMORPG? Hahaha this is going to be hillarious.
Maybe if I can solo on my uber invisble pirate cannon armageddon ship it might be cool.
Else how the heck can you make a MMO world based around Pirates of the Carribean?
Do you just go around beating down drunk sailors all while you have your knife in your mouth and you always swing on ropes into battle. How can this game attract more then 10 people?
This game is gonna be shit! Especially when they already have a concrete date for when it must ship by...no time for delays my boys!
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I recall reading that the stand along PotC game was crap when it first came out, however, a number of mods were written for it that actually made it a decent game. Then again, I think that was written by Bethesda Softworks. If Disney goes into this venture without soliciting third party help, then I can see it being a failure, however, if they enlist the likes of Bethsoft, I can see it being a huge success. We'll just have to wait and see what the mouse chooses to do.
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