The Crossing: new PC game invents a whole new genre?

Posted Dec 23, 2006 at 3:45PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Videos, Titles, Genre Tags: Valve Corporation
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Valve Studios, the maker of Dark Messiah and Half-Life 2, is working on something big, really big. The project is a PC game called The Crossing. The big thing about it? Supposedly the game is so unique it could actually create a whole new gaming genre. According to Shawn Elliot, "Games for Windows" editor, The Crossing starts out as an FPS but then again it's not an FPS. Huh? He couldn't describe it better but he did say it's going to be "unlike anything."

The teaser trailer hypes The Crossing as "the first cross-player-FPS ever" and it fuses single-player with multi-player although these do not help explain anything. If you really want to know what The Crossing is all about, you can catch the cover story on upcoming edition of "Games for Windows" and watch the season premiere of the 1Up Show. Meanwhile you can watch the video and maybe you can decipher its secret.

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by - 2006-12-23 15:51:19
Dud3

That has got to be one of the best games i've ever seen I can understand what cross player is! It's a single player game but you go threw the story line with people over the internet! I had a ideal like this for psp but it seemed to hard to make. I really can't wait!
by - 2006-12-23 16:23:42
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Wow can't wait! ps3 sucks though : (
by WC - 2006-12-23 16:25:30
Cross-player?

Okay, single-player fused with multi-player... Gee, that'd be... Multi-player! As for the genre, sounds pretty simple to me... It's an RPG. A first-person RPG, but still just an RPG. It's not even the first. Oblivion did that and did it well. There's even been first-person MMORPGs. Just a lot of hype here, that's all. If there was anything special, they wouldn't make a crappy video of 2 idiots talking about nothing.
by xche78x - 2006-12-24 12:22:48
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yeah ps3 sucks... for you that is. but for us that has ps3 and gthd its gaming heaven!
by - 2006-12-25 20:23:28
I think I know what crossplayer is ...

Its a single player FPS, but other players act as the bad guys. For instance, if your an enemy, you get a small life bar and weak weapon, and you try to stop the player from passing your section of the game. When you die, you get respawned in the next section of the game and wait for the player again.
by - 2007-01-08 13:35:51
*****ty explanation dude

y wud ne1 in the world join a cross player game just to be the bad guy whose role finishes in minutes just to be respawned again and again to do just 1 thing over and over again

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