Not really an RPG it's more like the Battlefield games as it's more of a shooter with a crapload of customization and an actual purpose for people to run together as a gang. There are no fees besides buying the game so far so that's good.

Uses a celebrity/fame system to rank people and groups from what I've heard and read and the ability to create custom logos and clothes lets people spend their time just making cool crap and selling it like in SWG if they aren't in the mood to run n gun.

Just a couple days ago one of the Devs said the beta was WEEKS away. It will not be a massive public open beta though so you need to apply for it and hope to get lucky. The game is still 6+ months out from release.

-- Edited by Decimus on Friday 11th of September 2009 06:48:53 PM

Those of you intersted you should be able to get a demo key to try out APB at http://www.alienwarearena.com/event/apb-demo-giveaway/

The customization in the game is amazing. Unfortunately it is the best part of the game. I (along with a lot of the guys at S8) really wanted to like this game. It just did not do it for us though. It is a decent game, but there is an extreme lack of content (in the action districts) and combat has a lot of issues. For the $$ they want just cant see playing it. Had they stuck to their original promise of having no monthly charge at all then probably would have picked it up, but just not enough to hold interest for a sub.