Chris Kohler
Culture

The Crossing: Fusing Single- and Multi-Player

Was just reading about The Crossing, an upcoming game from Dark Messiah devs Arkane Studios that promises to fuse the single- and multiplayer games into one scary-sounding whole, says the game’s producer: In The Crossing, and in cross-player, we support pools of story players and pools of what we call "skirmish players." Skirmishers play on […]

Crossing

Was just reading about The Crossing, an upcoming game from Dark Messiah devs Arkane Studios that promises to fuse the single- and multiplayer games into one scary-sounding whole, says the game's producer:

In The Crossing, and in cross-player, we support pools of story players and pools of what we call "skirmish players."
Skirmishers play on skirmish servers, over and over again in short, 10- to 15-minute matches.
Meanwhile, story players--co-op or solo--tackle missions until, at some point, they cross over and enter a skirmish. Suddenly, skirmishers switch to one of several possible objectives that help or hinder the story players' progress.

1up News reported this morning that this so-called "crossplayer" game is also 360-bound. My interest is piqued.

The Crossing PC Preview [1up]