Fast Facts
Name:
Asheron's Call
Acronym:
AC
Developer:
Turbine
Publisher:
Turbine
Release Date:
11/02/1999
Country:
USA
Genre:
RPG
ESRB Rating:
Teen
News
Fallen Earth: Alpha Videos Leaked

Two videos were leaked this week from the post-apocalyptic FPS/MMORPG Fallen Earth, which is currently undergoing Alpha testing, revealing the character customization process and the very first zone around the Hoover Dam.

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A dedicated Beta-leaking forum posted two articles along with 20 minutes worth of ingame footage on their forums, noting in the first one the extensive character customization options as we've already known from the Question of the Week series. The second article delves deeper into the game combat and interaction system, and comments favorably about the FPS aspects of it:

FINALLY, I enter FPS mode. Oh My God!! It feels like a true FPS game, everyting is so natural at this point, both as far as animations and controls go. As you can see, your weapons actually move/hover, instead of being stiff and frozen, it gives it that very natural feeling. Only once I entered FPS mode did I realize that I'm actually equiped with some sort of air guns hehe...I thought they were miniguns before this .

To enter COMBAT MODE, all you have to do is press TAB, then you get little croshair which indicates you are in combat mode and your mouse at this point is exclusively for controling your weapons (you can't interact with other GUI or world elements. Left click will fire your right weapon, right click will fire your left weapon. Kind of like primary and secondary. Left mouse click always being primary and right hand always being primary, naturally. You can fire your weapon while running but your accuracy decreases, just like real FPS game.

Overall, the leaker was impressed by the game even at its early Alpha stage and promised to be back for more!