Anarchy Online Preview & Shots

Two bits for the slick MMORPG set in a sci-fi world. First, there’s a positively positive AO preview over at ComputerGamesOnline. It’s one of those long-page jobbies so get your scroll fingers working. Here’s a nip (and read below for the second bit of AO News:

Wow. It sure is pretty for a desert

The character models are fluid and lifelike and everything plays smoothly at 1024×768 resolution on a 128K ISDN line. Even when the fighting gets hot and heavy, the game keeps right on going with very little lag. The only time in which there is a noticeable pause is when you travel into a new section of a city or landscape and the game must load new information. Granted, the current beta test is housing a relatively small group of players, but for an unfinished online game the lack of latency is very promising.

And to follow up a nice preview, EuroGamer slapped up eleven new screen scrumptions. Those with relatively weak jaw muscles bring a kleenex or two.