August 24, 2007 - Developer Reakktor gave us a demonstration of its upcoming space flight MMO Black Prophecy at GC 2007 today, and even though the game is very early in development it's already one of the most beautiful titles we've ever laid eyes on. The scope of some of the environments that will serve as backdrop to your piloting is breath taking. But first, some details.

Reakktor has around 50 people who've been working on Black Prophecy for seven months. The MMO features both PvE and PvP play and supports up to 300 folks in one game. It is currently in development for PC, but Reakktor is looking for funding to bring the title to the Xbox 360, as well. Our demo today was played on a PC with a 360 controller.

Even though there is a lot of multiplayer action going on here, there is a deep storyline being written by sci-fi writer Michael Marrak that will be experienced in single-player and multiplayer missions. Pilots will enter mission events that are separate from the main space so as not to be bothered by other fliers.

Your fighter jet can be customized with modules that are purchasable from NPCs and other players, and key items are granted as mission awards. There are also 30 skills that can be developed over time. Clan support is included, and clans can develop their own space station and outfit it to their liking. Reakktor has developed its own clan server technology. Many ships will need to be manned by more than one pilot and will require a crew, so multiple players can help guide and navigate a large vessel.

After the trailer Holger Nathrath, CEO of Reakktor, took the controls to show off the game's visuals. Black Prophecy is bursting with eye candy. Each fighter is made up of 20,000 polygons. Nathrath piloted his through an asteroid belt where each rock had a mirror-like reflective surface. Many missions will take place just outside of a planet's atmosphere, and one such planet was encircled by rings that were represented in 3D and could be flown through. Another planet, so large it blocked half of space, featured bodies of water that reflected light from the sun. The celestial bodies can be seen slowly rotating, and clouds cast shadows on the surface. The engine running all these beautiful vistas is Gamebryo 2.3, and no pixilation could be seen.

That looks great and all, but it's 2009, when are we going to be able to go from space, through the atmosphere, to the surface??? Seriously. You would have thought in the past 20 years of gaming someone could have figured that one out, since the black void of space isn't exactly scenic.

Sure, you can throw in colorful nebulae, gas clouds, and planets, but if you can't actually go down there and land on a planet, or explore the caves in an asteroid, I don't want to play it. I'll stick to my copy of Microsoft Space Simulator until something good comes out.

Aos anos que estou à espera de um jogo assim... imaginem este jogo cruzado com Mass Effect.

/drool

Brutall... na tinha noção de que este jogo estava a ficar tão bom "espero eu" mas a ver vamos ser será F2P...
ainda tou há espera de ver como vai ficar o JumpGate!

Ahahaha piada ^^

Isso é uma surpresa mas ao mesmo tempo deixa-me a pensar que o jogo não vai ser bom como eles o querem mostrar. But we'll see

Se forem ao site já podem se inscrever para a beta que tá para abrir... eu já tenho conta

Já se podem inscrever para a beta, caso queiram... Eu estou inscrito :]

A inscrição para a beta já estava aberta desde quando fiz o post

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