Firefall

Firefall is a game in a very rare genre, MMOFPS, though the official description of the game is “team-based action shooter”. The creators are quick to point out that unlike many MMO’s there is no dice rolling system and the game depends heavily on skill, rather than character level. That said, it does posses key features of an MMOG (massive multiplayer online game;) such as the persistent world with a large number of simultaneous players – they claim hundreds -loot drops and world economy. The game has a Sci-Fi theme; set 200 years in Earth’s future, humans must fight for survival after the Crystite War leads to the disastrous arrival of the Melding, a hostile energy storm that destroys much of the planet. Earth’s surviving humans must band together in the eye of the Melding storm to survive. Unfortunately, the bloodthirsty Chosen, an insectoid alien race, emerges and threatens humanity’s survival.