Grand Raid Offroad - MMO

[Deadpreacher 2]

Link

Man i just found out about this game. It's been around for awhile and i think it comes out in 2007 sometime. With 1000/2000 players per server & 3500 square miles to drive on sounds like heck of a fun time!

Grand Raid Offroad will be the first Rally Game MMO for the Xbox 360 and I'm pretty sure it is the first ever of it's kind. Supporting up to 1000-2000 players on it's servers, it's amazing what you can pull off with only 9 artists and 7 developers.

Thanks to our friends at Xbox360area.fr who wrote this quick piece of information for us.

Grand Raid Offroad

Features:

Huge Environments: 3500 square miles of surface.

Drive everywhere and anywhere.

Animals and habitations bring the maps to life.

The weather will also be variable.

The cars: They are 4x4 vehicles hungry for open terrain. Some car brands have proposed to let them model their own cars. It will be possible to change specifications of the vehicles, giving them more speed, more boost, fine turning and so on. All these modifications will help make your car the best for any type of road or terrain.

Car damage is present but not to the point where they make this effect the car in a big way. The developers chose to steer away from making the game become a "destruction derby" type game. Grand Raid Offroad is based on orientation.

There will be a single player campaign as well as classical multiplayer.

Online mode: Grand Raid Offroad will be the first Rally Game MMO!

With 1000/2000 players on servers.

On these huge maps, there will be many competitions and many minigames like in GTA games. Like in all RPG or MMORPG, in Grand raid Offroad, the participants will begin with cars in the same class and players will be able to progressively specialize them which will encourage the players to create stables (equivalent to the guilds of RPGs).

About Asobo:

Asobo is composed by: 9 artists and 7 developers and was founded in 2002 by Sébastien Wloch et David Dedeine (former members of Kalisto another studio of Bordeaux. Past games developed include: Super Farm, Sitting Duck, The Mummy and CT Special Force. Asobo also uses their own engine appropriately dubbed the "ASOBO Creative Engine" (ACE) to develop all their projects.

[Deadpreacher 2]

Just when i learn of this game i just learned they putting it on hold.

Grand Raid Offroad Put On Hold [19-06-2006 | JZ | Comments (2) ]

French studio Asobo announced that it is halting, not cancelling, develpment of its Grand Raid Offroad racing game in favor of a new adventure/platform title for a well known US publisher. Since Grand Raid Offroad is their internal title, it was put on ice in favor of the new product which will allow them to secure finances to complete the project, according to Asobo's production director David Dedeine. No details on the new game were disclosed but David said it shouldn't be much longer.

Link