David: DMO Online is a new online game being developed at Vigil games set in the Warhammer 40k Universe.  The big things we are talking about at GamesCom is our first playable race, which is the Imperium of Man, and our first playable class which is the Black Templar Space Marine.

It's 40k so there is going to be a lot of combat a lot of action it's way more action oriented then your typical MMO.  But at the end of the day it still has your typical RPG trappings there are quests, missions, groups, guilds all that kinda of stuff.  The base gameplay is way more visceral, way more action oriented, way more suitable to the 40k universe.

40k is a science-fiction universe so when we first started working on the game we realized right away that we needed to change the base mechanics of your standard MMO because generally in those games guns just aren't fun.  We had to push it a lot more towards, well I wouldn't say it's a twitch FPS but somewhere between that and a typical MMO there is a lot of stuff came out of that.  It had to be faster, guys die quicker, they were kinda natural extensions of what you would have to do to make a really cool gun based MMO.

We don't want it to be overly punishing, though it can't be nothing or people would just grind themselves endlessly and die all the time but it really depends there are two parts of the there is the PvP aspect of the game and the PvE aspect of the game.  Are you in a battleground, an instance, you know what are you doing and that dictates the death penalty.

Vehicles are a really big part of the game in addition to personal vehicles you can drive around like motorcycles and that type of thing.  We have a full suite of vehicles and all the playable races have a ton of different vehicles they can pilot they are all multi-manable, so like 4 guys can jump in a tank, one guy can drive, the rest of the guys can shoot.  They have physics they react to the world, they impact with each other, you can jump berms on a bike, you can peel out, you can do all that stuff you would expect from an action game.

You know the cool thing about 40k is its just a huge expansive universe that you can pin a needle on a map and just and pick a spot.  You know that is basically what we did.  The game takes place across multiple worlds.  Each world  has multiple zones and it is all free roaming, seamless its a big massive world you get to cruise around and explore and we want to give you the experience of being in the 40k universe.  So I think people new to the IP and people failure with the IP will see there is a lot of elements from 40k and it's just a really cool compelling world to explore in.