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The Crossing (video game)
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The Crossing is a first-person shooter
video game by Arkane Studios
, which attempts to fuse single-player and multiplayer by threading its single-player campaign through live multiplayer games.
The game was put "on hold" in May 2009 after the company ran into "an unexpected financial challenge" and decided to focus on smaller projects.
, and is set across two vastly different renditions of modern day Paris
. In one, which shares many aesthetic similarities to our own, Paris has descended into anarchy
following the collapse of government. In the other, the timeline diverged in 1307; where instead of being disbanded, the Knights Templar
seize control of the French crown. The story takes the player across both universes.
The Crossing attempts to fuse single-player and multiplayer gaming, allowing human players to take the place of enemies in the single-player campaign. The players who take on the role of AI grunts play a team-based deathmatch
game, with the additional goal of trying to kill or protect the one or two more powerful players who are playing through the story. This amalgamation has been dubbed "crossplayer" by Arkane.
The game also includes a team-based multiplayer mode called skirmish, which too, is incorporated into the single-player campaign, where the main player might try to avoid the skirmish.
First-person shooter
First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...
video game by Arkane Studios
Arkane Studios
Arkane Studios is a video game developer based in Lyon, France. It was founded in 1999, and released its first game, Arx Fatalis, in 2002. Arkane Studios opened an Austin, Texas-based office in July 2006....
, which attempts to fuse single-player and multiplayer by threading its single-player campaign through live multiplayer games.
The game was put "on hold" in May 2009 after the company ran into "an unexpected financial challenge" and decided to focus on smaller projects.
Story
The game incorporates the idea of parallel universesParallel universe (fiction)
A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...
, and is set across two vastly different renditions of modern day Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. In one, which shares many aesthetic similarities to our own, Paris has descended into anarchy
Anarchy
Anarchy , has more than one colloquial definition. In the United States, the term "anarchy" typically is meant to refer to a society which lacks publicly recognized government or violently enforced political authority...
following the collapse of government. In the other, the timeline diverged in 1307; where instead of being disbanded, the Knights Templar
Knights Templar
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon , commonly known as the Knights Templar, the Order of the Temple or simply as Templars, were among the most famous of the Western Christian military orders...
seize control of the French crown. The story takes the player across both universes.
Gameplay
Deathmatch (gaming)
Deathmatch or Player vs All is a widely-used gameplay mode integrated into many shooter and real-time strategy computer games...
game, with the additional goal of trying to kill or protect the one or two more powerful players who are playing through the story. This amalgamation has been dubbed "crossplayer" by Arkane.
The game also includes a team-based multiplayer mode called skirmish, which too, is incorporated into the single-player campaign, where the main player might try to avoid the skirmish.