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Realtime Worlds receives $50 million in real world investment

by Alexander Sliwinski on Mar 31st 2008 4:30PM

Realtime Worlds, the developer best known for Crackdown, raised $50 million in its third round of financing. The company is currently at work on the MMO All Points Bulletin in conjunction with Korean company Webzen. Realtime Worlds CEO David Jones was a creator on the original Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings back in the day.

Although Crackdown was a great game, nobody is going to deny that the title did better because of its tie-in with the Halo 3 beta. APB should let us see how a Realtime Worlds title does without the assistance of Master Chief and the Halo army.

[Via GameDaily]

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Tags: Action, apb, crackdown, financing, Microsoft, realtime-worlds, realtimeworlds, Riot-Act, Sandbox, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (25)

No Thanks! NEEEEEEEEEEXT!

I'll never understand why they bundled the Halo 3 beta with it.

A) It's a great game (Scotland FTW)
B) It was and is cheap
C) erm... something Halo fanboys won't like :)

It is a great game and all, but not even close to as many people would have bought it if it didn't have that Halo 3 beta sticker on it. There is your reason right there.

Crackdown was easily one of the most underrated games of last year. A lot of people bought it, but I doubt many people played it, and just used it for the Halo 3 beta.

I just wish they would make a second one.

So do I. There was so much room for improvement. Sadly, they said they wouldn't be making a second one.

LOVED Crackdown. With or without the Halo 3 beta (in fact, I bought it after Halo 3 even came out).

Crackdown was fantastic! I could heap generic praise onto that title all day.

And if APB is anything like Planetside, I'll give it a shot.

Crackdown is awesome and it has the most creative DLC available on XBOX Live yet!
APB should be a great game.

That reminds me I need to beat Wang...

Host a co-op and maybe someone here would help you beat your Wang.

hahaha i just died laughing at you two

Then how did you post?

Maybe the ABP MMO will come with a Halo MMO beta.

Add me to the list that enjoyed Crackdown. Granted, I bought it for the beta, but following the conclusion of the beta, I gave it a shot. As for the MMO, I have to wonder about the collaboration with Webzen. I was initially excited about Huxley, but with all of the delays, lack of information, and the horrid game play video, I have no real hope for that title or the Crackdown MMO.

Consider yourself added.

Crackdown has to be one of the best sleeper games out there for me. I still play it regularly. Resetting the levels just to go on one more run wasting everything. Nothing as satisfying as hearing the whistle of 5 or 6 lobbed rockets impacting. Sequel please. No need for betas in addition. :)

Where's Lemmings for XBLA please Mr Jones?

Never. Lemmings is now a Sony property, thanks to their takeover of Psygnosis about a decade ago.

Bought it for the Halo 3 beta and ended up liking it more than Halo 3.

Definitely way underrated. Awesome game, I cry every night that we probably won't get a Crackdown 2.

Oh, and here's to hoping that Halo 4 comes with a Crackdown 2 beta.

I actually played Crackdown way more than H3.. Played trough the campaign once, played a little online, but i've probably played Crackdown atleast a 100 hours.

sick avatar. calvin and hobbes is the greatest

APRIL FOOLS!

That's the great thing. Crackdown didn't receive nearly as much marketing effort as the quality of the game deserved. By bundling Halo 3 they introduced a lot of people to Realtime Worlds - a halo effect (no pun intended) that may very well carry into APB.

Imagine if the game sucked though, the endless bitching about greedy MS would never stop :)

When I first heard about ABP I thought it stood for Another British Pansy, I was like "Sweet, I get to go around beating up stuck up wankers, then I found out it was a cop MMO, and quickly became disinterested

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