EVE Online - Dust 514 Revealed

CCP have revealed a MMO/FPS that interacts with EVE Online. Eurogamer have written a short brief on the news.

CCP has ended speculation and unveiled Dust 514, an MMO/FPS hybrid for consoles that will interact "directly" with flagship PC title EVE Online.

Battles within Dust 514 take place on the ground, on the surface of planets that exist within the world of EVE Online. But no further details on the interplay between the two games is given.

There's no preliminary release date nor specific mention of platforms, either.

CCP does say that Dust 514 has been in production for three years at CCP Shanghai, however, and there are two CGI-like screenshots to take in.

There's a little more info on Develop.

The game is an FPS for console - but one that is set in the EVE universe, and feeds back into the bigger space trading MMO on PC.

Explained Petursson: "It's our take on the console MMO - we looked hard at how people play in their living room and chose to make a specially made experience for that environment."

Players take he role of 'a gritty marine running around buying trucks and guns', living on planets in EVE Online.

The back story for the game is to be teased any explained in an upcoming EVE Online novel.

The game is structured to merge a lot of strategy, MMO and FPS elements, and has interplay with EVE itself, said Petursson. Dust 'becomes an input' for the PC MMO gameworld and will 'dictate' the content of it, he explained.

He added that there is a big opportunity to get two usually different player audiences - FPS fans and MMO players to work together.

He said: "There are ways in which these communities will meld in time. Our hope is that alliances will start to form and we will have social structures that spills over from the console game to the PC one. Or you might be able to control parts of the universe with both games. So while one fleet does the flying , the troops do the dying."