Like most games, especially MMO ones, Black Prophecy takes place in it's own, unique universe, crafted by the ideas of Micheal Marrack and the necessities of game design. We've previously discussed the factions likley to be involved - this time, I'd like to look at and speculate about the actual physical world and locations and see what might be expected there.

Following on from the previous speculation about the factions players will be interacting with in Black Prophecy, this time I intend to try and provide the best picture possible of what the actual gameplay of Black Prophecy will be like and clear up some common misconceptions.

First off I’d like to clear up some common confusion. Comparisons to EvE are completely worthless, everything seen so far suggests that Black Prophecy will in fact have more common with some of the more heavily instanced fantasy MMOs than EvE, although very few similarities to both. Planetside is probably the closest comparison in MMO space, although comparisons with Reakktor’s previous game, Neocron would not be entirely unreasonable. In terms of gaming as a whole, MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries is probably the closest analogue you can find for BP, for reasons that will become apparent as we move through the article.

As part of our aim to be the best source of Black Prophecy information and resources, we will be putting up some new style articles of site, different to the news posts so far. In these articles we will do our best to collect Black Prophecy facts and material and collate them into what is known and then draw some conclusions or speculate on liklehoods from what we know.

 The Black Prophecy universe, as apparently developed by german author Micheal Marrack has a variety of factions competeing to complete their aims. In this article we'll look into what we know and can expect from those factions identifiable so far.

Read the full thing beyond the jump