APB Reloaded (2010)
Better known as the free-to-play "APB: Reloaded", APB is a MMO third-person shooter by the developers of Crackdown. Players choose between the hard-boiled law enforcers or the feared criminals as they try to stop the opposing faction's objectives.
First released
Jun 29, 2010
Aliases
All Points Bulletin, A.P.B.
Developed by
Realtime Worlds Ltd.
Published by
Iceberg Interactive, Ravenscourt, Electronic Arts, GamersFirst
Platforms
PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
Genres
Shooter, Action-Adventure
Themes
Crime
Rating
PEGI: 18+, ESRB: M
Releases
- PC - APB United Kingdom
- PC - APB United States
- PC - APB Reloaded United States
- PC - APB Releaded: The Boxed Special Edition United Kingdom
- PS4 - APB: Reloaded United States
- X360 - APB United Kingdom
- X360 - APB United States
- XONE - APB Reloaded United States
Community reviews
Boring and failed game that was fun for an hour.
APB: All Points Bulletin (Reloaded) is a boring, unfinished game that adds nothing to the MMO-FPS genre. It is a generic GTA Online clone (in hindsight) with some innovative ideas and concepts, but was delayed, abandoned, rebooted and is now still underdeveloped and (in my opinion), dead.
Back in 2010, I followed a school friend of mine who was hyped for this game. I booted it up, had exactly one hour of fun, and then got annoyed by the glitches, unbalance and general broken and unfinished feel of this game. After this, I lost all interest and never played the game again.
In the core, this is just a Brink/Overwatch/Counterstrike game, in which two factions battle it out on a map. Only in APB: All Points Bulletin (Reloaded), the world is massive and you can free roam wherever you want. You complete missions and try to stop players from other factions to complete their own missions. You can earn cold cash and spend it on weapons, upgrades and cosmetics. Some cool concepts are mission in which the criminal faction needs to rob a store, and the enforcers to stop them. This concept has been done again in GTA Online, many years later with heists, and here, it worked perfectly.
The whole idea of this game was to create a new, virtual world in which players can trade, fight each other, work together and have fun, but because of the issues and underdevelopment, the whole concept of the game failed fast in my opinion.
Graphicly, this game looked outdated and half-baked, even back in 2010. The open world concept was relatively new and the amount of room around you was somewhat incredible. The only problem was that it felt blend and lifeless. Just endless roads and all grey buildings, with some alleys here and there.
Sound wise, the game offered nothing special. Guns sound like pea shooters and the only redeeming factor here are the car sounds.
The controls and interfaces are a little confusing at first and take some time to get used too.
The biggest problem with APB: All Points Bulletin (Reloaded) is simply that it is too boring. It is lifeless, blend, empty and unfinished. When roaming around without playing a mission, it just feels so pointless. All the problems mentioned earlier play a big part in this off course, and it just a shame that this game, and all its innovative ideas for the future, did not come around. In the present time, games like GTA V took over and, in the future, GTA VI will do the same. This game falls short and will always fall short, no matter how many times it is rebooted and how much development will take place.
In the end, I think APB Reloaded was a nice attempt, but it failed miserably and is one of those games that get lost into obscurity.
I would still not recommend this game, regardless of its current state.
Back in 2010, I followed a school friend of mine who was hyped for this game. I booted it up, had exactly one hour of fun, and then got annoyed by the glitches, unbalance and general broken and unfinished feel of this game. After this, I lost all interest and never played the game again.
In the core, this is just a Brink/Overwatch/Counterstrike game, in which two factions battle it out on a map. Only in APB: All Points Bulletin (Reloaded), the world is massive and you can free roam wherever you want. You complete missions and try to stop players from other factions to complete their own missions. You can earn cold cash and spend it on weapons, upgrades and cosmetics. Some cool concepts are mission in which the criminal faction needs to rob a store, and the enforcers to stop them. This concept has been done again in GTA Online, many years later with heists, and here, it worked perfectly.
The whole idea of this game was to create a new, virtual world in which players can trade, fight each other, work together and have fun, but because of the issues and underdevelopment, the whole concept of the game failed fast in my opinion.
Graphicly, this game looked outdated and half-baked, even back in 2010. The open world concept was relatively new and the amount of room around you was somewhat incredible. The only problem was that it felt blend and lifeless. Just endless roads and all grey buildings, with some alleys here and there.
Sound wise, the game offered nothing special. Guns sound like pea shooters and the only redeeming factor here are the car sounds.
The controls and interfaces are a little confusing at first and take some time to get used too.
The biggest problem with APB: All Points Bulletin (Reloaded) is simply that it is too boring. It is lifeless, blend, empty and unfinished. When roaming around without playing a mission, it just feels so pointless. All the problems mentioned earlier play a big part in this off course, and it just a shame that this game, and all its innovative ideas for the future, did not come around. In the present time, games like GTA V took over and, in the future, GTA VI will do the same. This game falls short and will always fall short, no matter how many times it is rebooted and how much development will take place.
In the end, I think APB Reloaded was a nice attempt, but it failed miserably and is one of those games that get lost into obscurity.
I would still not recommend this game, regardless of its current state.