Born To Be Wild!
Auto Assault (AA) is a MMORPG you've never played. Some major differences compared to the traditional MMORPG:
- Vehicle Combat
- Destroyable world
- Use of Physics on all most everything
- Unique gameplay
It might sound boring: cruising around in a armored vehicle and shooting everything you find. But the opposite is true: AA is a challenging and fun MMORPG, set in a never before shown world with unique gameplay.
The gameplay:
In AA your vehicle has "hard points" basicly spots on your car where you can put equipment in. You can have a maximum of 4 weapons on your car: front weapon, turret weapon, rear weapon and melee weapon. Other hard points on your car differ from species, but i played as Human and it had the following: Hazard kit, ornament, tires, armor, power plant and key.
Items to put in those slots can be found and bought almost everywhere and there tons (and I mean tons) of items for you to find.
The combat system is also something really different, there is no such thing as auto-attack. In AA YOU must aim your weapons (for best result, auto targeting is possible but less effective), steer your vehicle and use skills. The only way to be effective is by lining up your weapons, which means turret weapon, front weapon and melee weapon all attack the target. This means you will have to drive up to the enemy, lining up your front and turret weapon, then smashing into the enemy using the melee weapon to deal great amounts of damage. Ofcourse this is not always possible, so just driving around might turn a good result as well, depending on how strong you are compared to the enemy.
The combat is intense, you shoot, drive, smash and destroy all at the same time. Stuff around you blows up as you hit them (with either guns or your vehicle). It looks awesome and gives the game the perfect feeling.
The graphics:
The graphics are pretty good, though you will need a high-end system to fully enjoy everything. With the destructable environment and shadows, it might cause some slowing down in framerate, but usually it's stable. Also low-end PC's can play this game, since textures can be set REALLY low and all shadow can be turned off.
Recommended for this game is atleast having 1GB of memory, because i play it with 512 and it causes some annoying freezing during heavy combat or entering new areas.
The Sound:
is awesome! Every gun has his own sound, hundred of environment sounds, combined with good music gives the game a great feel.
Value:
The game will keep you going for quite some times, there are literaly 1000s of missions (quests) for you to do PER RACE. You'll spend lots of hours doing them and all of them are fun to do.
I highly recommend this game to anyone that likes MMO's, like driving and shooting or just blowing stuff sky high, but still enjoy a very solid RPG.
- Bloodreaver