Imagine if you took American Gladiators, Wipeout and a whole lot of dangerous materials, and put it into one arena, you may start to get the idea of the new game Huttball.
Devised by the Hutts in their twisted version of extreme sports, the idea is to take the ball and put it into your opponent’s base while avoiding the dangers of the game field. What dangers? Well there’s fire, acid, and all sorts of things that can kill you instantly, while the audience laughs and chuckles at your demise. But someone crafty could certainly avoid these pitfalls you say. After all, isn’t there a lot of games that require such avoidance?
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Okay, fair enough, but it’s not just the field itself you have to worry about. Your opponent is not a robot, but live players in a team event and they are out to make sure that you don’t get to your goal. And because this is meant to be a kill or be killed type of sport, very popular throughout the galaxy, any violence is not only allowed, but encouraged. And so just being quick on your feet and sly is not enough. You have to have some serious fighting skills to keep on top. Because failure is not an option.
The PvP arena is just one of the specified warzones that will be available for various combat scenarios against other players. This more tethered approach to the fighting aspect may be a bit annoying to some players who are used to mixing it up just about anywhere, but I think this will give players the opportunity to experience the game without random acts of violence cutting them down in the first few seconds of play.
Star Wars: The Old Republic as we’ve mentioned a few times before is available around Christmas 2011, although they are considering opening up beta accounts as early as September.
