The Crimes of CrimeCraft

Together, you’ll be able to take on missions spread out throughout the city, like robbing a bank or fighting for control over turf. Success in these team-based missions means more glorious loot for you and your teammates to upgrade your gear. But we’re especially interested in how illicit crafting and business activities will affect CrimeCraft’s underground economy.

Above: Whether you want to look like an urban cowboy or a more traditional thug will be up to you

“There are many different items that you can craft. So we’re looking at different ways at how a particular gang or group can control [them]… it could be the manufacturing aspect or the raw materials aspect of it,” added McEnerney. For example, controlling the right turf may be able to help your gang corner the market in shotgun production and the raw materials needed to produce them.

Nothing is set in stone at the moment, and Vogster Entertainment is still working on smoothing out the mechanics of how CrimeCraft’s underground economy will actually work. But it sure as hell sounds a lot more exciting than corning the market on Veldspar ore in EVE: Online.

Will CrimeCraft be the next mainstream MMO sensation? Probably not. But if CrimeCraft and other upcoming MMOs can deliver visuals of this caliber for free, it may throw an epic plus-1000-to-damage wrench in the current pay-to-play model used by many of today’s more mainstream MMO games.

Want to know more about the crimes of CrimeCraft? Pick up the latest issue of PC Gamer, which hits stands on April 29. In addition to extra info and screenshots on CrimeCraft, it’ll come packed with gory details on Dawn of War II and all things Warhammer-related.

Apr 11, 2008