Rumor Has It... 5 Games That Would Make Awesome MMOs

by Ron Keith

There's a completely unsubstantiated rumor afoot that there's a BioShock MMO in the works. The original source seems to be Destructoid.com. Here's what they have to say, “We've heard from a mysterious source (possibly a roaming Ekans) that 2K Games... is hard at work in a secret location and tinkering with a massively multiplayer online game set in the BioShock universe.” And that's about it.  There's not a lot of there there, but just the thought of a BioShock MMO has the intertubes abuzz. G4TV, Kotaku, and a slew of other gaming sites have all picked up on the Destructoid article, which, if you read the Destructoid post, could easily be attributed to little more than wishful thinking.

But don't you love wishful thinking? Wouldn't you love to see a BioShock MMO? That would be awesome sick, wouldn't it? 

Big Daddys are tailor-made to be world bosses. Is there anything like BioShock's skill system in MMOs? That would be wild. Imagine if you could re-spec. And wouldn't it be a blast to choose your own path, whether to go good or evil? And the undersea, retro world would be such a novel setting for an MMO.

Yeah, we sure wish there was a BioShock MMO. That would be so sweet. Ah, to dream...

While we're making wishes, here are 5 other games we'd like to see made into MMOs. Completely unconfirmed and unsubstantiated rumors – sort of like the one about the BioShock MMO – say they're all in the works. (We wish.) 

1. Resident Evil

Will the next chapter of Resident Evil be an MMO? According to several totally unconfirmed sources, Capcom and Sony Online Entertainment have teamed up to make a Resident Evil MMO. Utter hearsay says the title of the new MMO is Resident Evil: Zombie's Gone Wild.

Resident Evil has all the elements you love in your MMOs: Heroes – Jill Valentine, Claire, Chris Redfield; Villians – the Umbrella Corporation; and big, bad monsters – zombies. And who doesn't like killing zombies? Or maybe playing zombies...? Brains. Brains. 

2. Half-Life

Where, oh where is Half-Life 3? You've been waiting a long time for the next Half-Life installment, haven't you? No doubt, you're beginning to suspect it's just so much vaporware ala Duke Nukem. (/sarcasm At least Valve keeps publishing Left 4 Dead and updates to Team Fortress 2. )

Well, you can put all your misgivings into a nice little box and store them away. Several hypothetical sources, Fifi the talking dog, and a loquacious parrot all confirm that the next installment of Half-Life will be Half-Life Online, the MMO. 

Wouldn't the gravity gun be cool MMO weapon? Just hope you'll be able to use it on the chat trolls.

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Starcraft II Stratagems: Part Three

Starcraft II Stratagems: Part Three 

By Cody Hargreaves

Starcraftaholics Anonymous Doctrine #337: Though shalt not shout ‘kekekekekeke’ loudly whilst attacking Terran SCVs with Zerglings.  

Three weeks. That’s how long it’s been since I last saw the Sun; since I last tasted restaurant food at that place on Main St; since I last saw a movie or played a game that wasn’t carefully nurtured against the loving bosom of Blizzard Entertainment. It’s been the best three weeks of my life. And the journey has only just begun.

Hello, my name is Cody Hargreaves, and I’m a Starcraftaholic. No, I don’t have a problem with that.

If you read the above passage and ended it thinking ‘LOL that dude needs a life’, then you need not continue reading further. This page isn’t for you. If, however, you read that passage and found yourself wondering whether or not you should also be admitted to SA (Starcraftaholics Anonymous), then welcome aboard; we have much to discuss.

You see, this page, the two preceding it, and the many that are sure to follow have been designed with a very specific goal in mind; a goal that has already begun to enjoy the sweet taste of progression: improving our understanding and ability to play Starcraft 2. In the two weeks prior, we covered an introduction to Starcraft 2 and Battle.net 2.0; we took a brief look at the common terminology found within the Starcraft community, and we learned two basic opening builds for the Zerg and Protoss. This week, we’re going to learn a third, this time for Terran. But first, a little evolution.

EVOLUTION IS NOW

Like all life on Earth (probably), Starcraft 2, from my understanding of it at least, is a process of evolution. When you begin playing league game for the very first time, you’re pitched against an assortment of other players just like you: i.e. they don’t have a clue what the hell is going on. Blizzard have dubbed this the Practice League. When you leave the Practice League, and begin your placement matches, you’re pitted against an assortment of players from every bracket, and you learn… well, how to lose. Really quickly. Then, you place (most likely in Bronze), and the evolution begins.

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