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Line 1: {{work}} ~~{{quote~~[[File:apb ~~box~~banner 8724.jpg\|thumb\|350px\|Girls, guns, [[Cool Car~~\|Cool Cars~~]]s. ["[What Could Possibly Go Wrong~~"}}~~?]]]]▼ ~~[[File:apb_banner_8724.jpg\|frame]]~~ ▲{{quote box\|Girls, guns, [[Cool Car\|Cool Cars]]. ["What Could Possibly Go Wrong"}}] ''APB: All Points Bulletin'' was a Massively Multiplayer Online Action Game, clearly inspired by the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series and developed by Real Time Worlds, creators of ''[[Crackdown]]''. The players can play either as [[Cowboy Cop\|Enforcers]] or as [[Captain Obvious\|Criminals]] of [[City of Adventure\|San Paro]] — for each side there are two factions (Prentiss Tigers and Praetorians for Enforcers, and G-Kings and Blood Roses for Criminals), each with its own bonuses and unlockable content.▼ ▲''APB: All Points Bulletin'', ~~was~~also known as '''''APB: Reloaded''''', is a Massively Multiplayer Online Action Game, clearly inspired by the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series and developed by Real Time Worlds, creators of ''[[Crackdown]]''. The players can play either as [[Cowboy Cop\|Enforcers]] or as [[Captain Obvious\|Criminals]] of [[City of Adventure\|San Paro]] — for each side there are two factions (Prentiss Tigers and Praetorians for Enforcers, and G-Kings and Blood Roses for Criminals), each with its own bonuses and unlockable content. One of the most important features is customization. During a presentation on Game Developers Conference, the creators showed lookalikes of [[Black and White\|Peter Molyneux]], [[Ultima\|Richard Garriott]], [[Deus Ex (Video Game)\|Warren Spector]] and [[Super Mario Bros\|Shigeru Miyamoto]], complete with logos of their respective companies (or, in Miyamoto's case, the Mario sprite and [[Goofy Print Underwear\|boxers with the 1UP mushroom pattern]]) on their clothing. In a later gameplay, [[Gears of War\|Mark Rein]]'s character sports the [[Unreal\|U logo]] on his back.▼ ▲One of the most important features is customization. During a presentation on Game Developers Conference, the creators showed lookalikes of [[Black and White\|Peter Molyneux]], [[Ultima\|Richard Garriott]], [[Deus Ex ~~(Video Game)~~\|Warren Spector]] and [[Super Mario Bros.\|Shigeru Miyamoto]], complete with logos of their respective companies (or, in Miyamoto's case, the Mario sprite and [[Goofy Print Underwear\|boxers with the 1UP mushroom pattern]]) on their clothing. In a later gameplay, [[Gears of War\|Mark Rein]]'s character sports the [[Unreal\|U logo]] on his back. Due to a disastrous launch phase and lackluster sales that fell far below predictions, Realtime Worlds was placed into administration in August 2010, and on September 16, 2010, the future of the game was sealed when Realtime Worlds announced that the servers would be shutting down soon after. However, [[Network to The Rescue\|GamersFirst has picked up the game and has put it in Open Beta,]] under the name "APB: Reloaded", and in December 2011, released the beta on [[Steam]] as well.▼ ▲Due to a disastrous launch phase and lackluster sales that fell far below predictions, Realtime Worlds was placed into administration in August 2010, and on September 16, 2010, the future of the game was sealed when Realtime Worlds announced that the servers would be shutting down soon after. However, [[Network to ~~The~~the Rescue\|GamersFirst has picked up the game and has put it in Open Beta,]] under the name "''APB: Reloaded"'', and in December 2011, released the beta on [[Steam]] as well. [[I Thought It Meant\|Not to be confused with]] the [[Atari]] arcade game [[Similarly Named Works\|of the same name.]] ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} ~~This game provides examples of:~~ * [[AKA -47]] - Both the cars and weapons are fictional, but you can recognize at least the AK47, H&K USP, G36, [[MP 7]], Desert Eagle and fifth-generation Ford Mustang (named "Patriot Jericho" in the game). * [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]] - Gaining standing with organizations and spending time in the clothing editor gives you customizable clothes, while gaining standing with contacts gives you preset ones, in case you're lazy and don't want to fiddle with the editor, but still have something decent-looking on. Preordering also granted you two different sets of clothing, one for Criminal characters, one for Enforcers. Beta testers also got a special shirt called "The Lousy Shirt," which says "I was in the APB beta and all I got was... MULTIPLE BULLET WOUNDS". ** With the patch 1.8 you can also now give your guns purely cosmetic skins. In order to get these you need to have maxed out the rank for the weapon class, which requires around 10000 kills in total. * [[Arms Dealer]] - Tyron Sennet and Grayson Fell. * [[Author Existence Failure]] - Real Time Worlds went under in August 2010, and the game followed briefly. * [[Awesome but Impractical]] - The OSMAW rocket launcher may one-shot ANYTHING if it hits, but it only carries 2 rockets: one loaded in the chamber, one reload. It one-shots most vehicles easily (hitting a moving one can be tricky; but also impressive) - but to one-shot a player you have to directly hit them WITH the rocket. This is... not easy due to [[Painfully -Slow Projectile\|painfully slow projectiles]]. * [[Awesome Yet Practical]] - The O-PGL is a 4-shot repeating grenade launcher that can one-shot kill at its epicenter and has an ample blast radius. With experience, you can engage any enemy at any range with little detriment to yourself, and can be nightmarish for enemies assaulting an objective. However, it is rarely seen in the hands of high-level players due to its more popular (and cooler) counterpart in the form of the OSMAW, and its learning curve dipping into [[Difficult but Awesome]] territory. * [[Ax Crazy]] - Lilith Bloodrose. An interesting [[Beware the Nice Ones]] example, as she often tells you to kill people in an eerily calm voice. Line 33: * [[Cowboy Cop]] - [[Memetic Mutation\|A Cowboy Cop Is You]] if you play as an Enforcer. * [[Creator Killer]] - The game's commercial flop caused Real Time Worlds to shut down. * [[Dark -Skinned Redhead]] - Pagan Bloodrose. * [[The Ditz]] - Britney Bloodrose. Said to be talentless, clingy and not very bright. Also speaks with a [[Valley Girl]] accent. Veronika Lee is another [[Valley Girl]], but marginally smarter and much more badass looking. She is also more selfaware of it than Britney. * [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Double B, as well as any player character if they so choose. * [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]] - "Don't call me Clarissa! It's Britney! BRIT-NEY!" * [[Drives Like Crazy]] - Mark Rein's driver in the gameplay mentioned above. The city, as you may see, is designed just so the players can Drive Like Crazy: ramps to jump off from, gaps in highway barriers allowing you to drop to the street below, all sorts of random trash to be run over like in those '70s movies and drainage canals for that [[Terminator]] 2 kind of chases. * [[Dummied Out]] - With the newest patch Pagan Bloodrose was fully removed. However her podest and equipment aswell as the Joker Ammo dispencers are still present. Line 60: * [[Jerk Jock]] - The Prentiss Tigers take it up a notch. Those guys look like jocks and cheerleaders... and they are The Law. * [[Level Grinding]] - To unlock the basic model of [[Cool Car\|Charge Cisco]], you had to achieve Level 2 in "[[Non -Indicative Name\|Wheelman]]" rank, which required bringing no less than 48 cars to chop shops scattered across the districts (to say nothing that some documentation and in-game text referred to it as the "Car Thief" rank). Every chop shop had a cooldown that disabled it for a couple of minutes and to top it off, when you stole a car, the FARTHEST chop shop from your location was highlighted on the map - but if you knew the city well, you could dump the car in any other chop shop closer to you. And that was the Criminal path - Enforcers had to find vehicles that already have been stolen and bring them back to impound lots. Wanted a better Cisco? Well, you had to steal even more cars to unlock the slotted versions... Some clothes, car parts and decals forced you to spend (lots of) time in vehicle or clothing editor respectively. Of course you could leave the game running and go to lunch, just as a lot of people did. Unlocking other cars, car parts, clothes and decals was even more of a pain in the ass due to having to gain standing with either particular NPCs or factions as a whole. To add insult to injury, no info was available how to unlock particular elements of clothing or decals. Real Time Worlds promised to update The Vault after changes to unlock progression during thebeta, the official unlock database, but didn't do it before nor after release. ** Level grinding only exists in the GamersFirst incarnation as ranking up 'roles' with weapons to unlock better mods. * [[Lost Forever]] - All gear earned from the original incarnation of APB. The game was thought to be this until GamersFirst picked it up. * [[Mama Bear]] - More like Little Sister Bear: when Double B was a kid, some punks killed her brother. She ran away, came back with a [[Sawed -Off Shotgun]] and killed every last one of them. * [[Manipulative Bastard\|Manipulative Bitch]] - Charlotte Bloodrose. * [[Mini -Dress of Power]] - Lilith Bloodrose, Charlotte Bloodrose, Akiko X and Violet Prentiss, and considering the female player characters are [[Action Girl~~\|Action Girls~~]]s by the virtue of jacking cars and running people over alone, their minidresses can be considered a power element. * [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]] - Pagan, Lilith, Sabbat... * [[No Export for You]] - Australia is screwed again, but this time, the reason isn't [[Moral Guardians]] - it's [[Money, Dear Boy]], as the cost of renting servers and high-speed connection in Australia is tantamount to extortion. * [[Of Corsets Sexy]] - Charlotte and Lilith Bloodrose. * [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]] - Grayson Fell sometimes speaks with an odd [[Scotireland\|Scotirish]] accent. Also, the supposedly Korean-American Seung and Jeung (especially the former) slip in and out of variously exaggerated generic Far Eastern accent. * [[Outlaw Couple]] - Charlotte and Jeung Bloodrose, the founders of Blood Roses. * [[Private Military Contractors]] - The Praetorians. * [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Pagan Bloodrose with the newest patch. * [[Rebellious Spirit~~\|Rebellious Spirits~~]]s - The G-Kings. Poor ghetto kids who decided to stick it to the Man. And they're backed by the owner of a [[The Sopranos\|garbage disposal company]]. Well played, Mr Benjamin. * [[Rage Quit]]: An interesting variant due to the 'threat system'. Some high-threat players, who want to keep their high threat, will often kick most if not all of their teammates right before a game ends to prevent their threat from dropping too much or to super-inflate their threat. Threat is directly affected by how many people are on your team and the enemy's, as well as the threat levels of everyone, and threat change is only calculated at the end of a match. There are some cases where a high-threat party leader kicks the entirety of his friendly team (which could be as much as ''nine'' people in a 10-on-10) just so their emblem could stay a certain colour. * [[Ramming Always Works]]: Mostly subverted since damaging other cars with your own does not do much damage and trying to push them off to force the players to exit them is quite difficult. Brutaly subverted with the Dumptruck which once it get's speed is near unstopable and can cause smaller cars to explode by pushing them into others. This has become a tactic of some Griefers. * [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] - Britney Bloodrose, although she's an [[Affably Evil]] [[The Ditz\|Ditz]]. Also popular with some players. * [[Retired Badass]] - Chiro. Ex-gangbanger who now owns a tattoo parlor and tips players off about new missions. * [[Rich Bitch]] - Bonita Benjamin. * [[Screwed Byby the Network\|Screwed By The Devs]] - The game was released by Realtime Worlds already in high waters due to the prolonged development time, in an [[Obvious Beta]] state, and they did little to fix the kilometric list of problems it had, like they knew they were going belly-up already (mostly because of disastrous financial model of the company, as one of the ex-employees pointed out on his blog). The game had great potentialities but no time to reach a state to really express them, and people have basically paid to be beta-testers for a cancelled product. The game's servers were shut down a mere three months before release. The game has now been acquired by GamersFirst with a new Free To Play model and is currently in Open Beta. * [[Self -Made Orphan]] - Lilith Bloodrose. * [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] - When you'll hear songs like "Favorite Jeans" by Bertie Blackman or "Rewind" by Make Sparks, you will most probably ask yourself why the hell did the devs even choose it. * [[Split Personality]] - Strega Bloodrose. She often says that "Strega is out" while referring to herself by her real name, Jocasta, and calls the player "her own private [[Ninja]] Strega shouldn't know about". * [[Spoiled Brat~~\|Spoiled Brats~~]]s - The Bloodroses. They hang around in trendy clubs and commit crimes [[For the Evulz\|for laughs and just because they can.]] * [[Standard Status Effects]] - Enforcers can use Less-Than-Lethal armaments such as a taser pistol and a bean-bag rifle. These weapons can stun Criminals, leaving them helpless for a few seconds and able to be arrested by an Enforcer, giving them more than triple rewards compared to a kill and taking the Criminal out of the game for a longer period of time. Criminals universally consider these weapons [[Game Breaker~~\|Game Breakers~~]]s, despite the fact that the lethal counterparts to many LTL weapons often do the job faster with fewer rounds spent. This also has more irritation as the criminal is forced to kneel for several seconds helpless, allowing the enforcers plenty of time to abuse the game's numerous emote options. * [[Stripperiffic]] - Well, for starters: Pagan and Lilith Bloodrose, expect the players to roll with it as well. There '''are''' [[Cross Player\|CrossPlayers]] out there after all. * [[Tattooed Crook]] - Lots of them, both players and NPC Contacts. Line 91: * [[The Man Behind the Man]] - Luke Waskawi is this - and the [[Ultimate Evil]]. He doesn't appear in the game directly, but is responsible for what the city became. After assassinating the mayor and spending twenty years in the slammer, he escaped and started manipulating both the G-Kings and the Blood Roses for his own gain. * [[The Smart Guy]]: Byron Bloodrose for the Crims, with a bit of [[The Strategist]] mixed in. He is the brain behind a lot of the Bloodroses operation and their hacking expert. Also while he likes to tell you about the things he does for them in secret without ever becoming famous for it, he seems to be rather happy that way. * [[~~Un Canceled~~Uncanceled]] - APB has been released into a Free To Play Open Beta by GamersFirst. * [[Vanity License Plate]] - Fully customizable, allowing for up to eight characters. The plates on Criminal sports car in the concept art actually say "STOL3N". * [[Vice City]] - And ''how!'' Wander through town and you'll have people diving vans into store fronts, stealing cars and engaging in massive gunfights and demolition derbies in the streets. Line 98: ** There have been reports of one particular group of enforcers who have choreographed entire dance routines using the game's varied dance emote options, all solely for the purpose of dancing in front of arrested criminals to piss them off. It varies from well choreographed, flashy routines to being grinded upon/tea-bagged by seven grossly obese bounty hunters. * [[Virtual Paper Doll]] - ...is you, again! * [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] - Arlon Benjamin is this towards his son Harmon. * [[Witness Protection]] - Michael Simeone. See above. * [[Wrench Wench]] - Chiza. She liked boosting cars for joyrides (and not profit) prior to the formation of the Prentiss Tigers. Ophelia of the Praetorians is another, who apparently designed most of the Enforcer-only premium cars. As of now, she isn't available as a contact, but Chiza is. Line 111: {{reflist}} [[Category:Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game]] [[Category:Third -Person Shooter]] [[Category:All Points Bulletin]] [[Category:Video Game]] [[Category:APB: All Points Bulletin]] [[Category:Microsoft Windows]] [[Category:PlayStation 4]] [[Category:Xbox One]]