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STAR WARS: GALAXIES UPDATE
Posted by VE Reporter
Star Wars fans can soon become an inhabitant of George Lucas' far-away galaxy by making the jump into cyberspace. To create its first online role-playing game, Star Wars: Galaxies, the LucasArts Entertainment Company has some heavyweight help. Online PC game developer Verant Interactive, which created the massively popular multiplayer game EverQuest, will develop the PC-based game, and Sony Online will exclusively host the Net play on The Station. The game, due in 2001, will be sold at retail (no price set); monthly subscriptions will be about $10.
  
As with EverQuest, Star Wars: Galaxies will be a first-person role-playing game that lets gamers choose from several roles to portray in a huge fantasy world. (EverQuest has more than 200,000 paying subscribers, 120,000 who play daily.) Players' characters perform tasks, tackle quests and do battle. And unlike single-layer games, everything that happens affects the entire fantasy world.
  
In this case, the fantasy world starts with Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine, about the same time the original film began. "The Empire is in control of the universe at that time," says Dan Connors, a LucasArts game creator.
Players won't be able to choose already-established characters such as Luke Skywalker, Han Solo or Princess Leia. Instead, they can choose from roles such as rebel soldier, bounty hunter and mercenary. Characters can travel throughout the planet to the spaceport of Mos Eisley and other cities. Bounty hunters might scour the cantinas for wanted criminals, and rebel soldiers might be sent off-planet.
  
[the text in the above article was an excerpt from USA Today with screenshots courtesy of the official Star Wars: Galaxies website]
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