SOE's Bullet Run Blows Up Reality TV

Written by: Jason Winter (@winterinformal) | May 25, 2012 5:00 pm

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Reality shows would be more fun if they included live weapons and ammunition.

That’s what Sony Online Entertainment is thinking with Bullet Run, an upcoming lobby-based FPS, set in the near future when people kill each other on TV for fame and fortune, forming and breaking alliances at will… kinda like The Hunger Games, but without the teenage girls.

Not that you couldn’t make a teenage girl. SOE promises “thousands of options to customize your character” for the free-to-play shooter, in which style will count just as much as marksmanship — gotta keep those ratings high, after all.

Other features promised in the game include:

Active reload: When you hit reload a circular interface appears. If you hit it just right your weapon loads much faster.
Up to 20 contestants per match
Eight unique kill skills
Nemesis system and taunts, to really rub in your victories
Six arenas
Free to play with optional membership

Hey, maybe this reality TV/shooting match isn’t such a bad idea — Snooki, watch out.

Bullet Run is currently in closed beta and is scheduled to go live summer of 2012.

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Jesse O’Gara

stop letting your wife dress you gary
http://twitter.com/ookamiwing Phillip Rushing

Look at that chest. The V neck is back. It sounds like Bulletstorm meets TNT (the tv channel). I like it
http://twitter.com/Tidonius Tidonius

The first thing I thought of when I saw this was “Gamer” with Gerald Butler.
http://twitter.com/FishBaitism Fish Bait

Ooh, Running Man in game form?
http://profile.yahoo.com/7MPGC5FCQJZGFKICKCMALR3AYY Eric

“kinda like The Hunger Games, but without the teenage girls.”
idunno… teenage girls is all the hunger games really had going for it :p

seriously tho, sounds kinds cool, need something a bit different then another squad-based army/navy/whatever shooter
http://www.MasterRenny.com/ Thomas Renshaw

Reminds me of APB in character design
- HarmonBlues
  
  Bullet Run (formerly Hedone) seems to be the spiritual successor of Parabellum, which was a game also by Acony which didn’t make it out of closed beta and was shut down in 2009. Besides Parabellum, it does make me think a bit of Brink and APB
  - http://www.MasterRenny.com/ Thomas Renshaw
    
    Either way APB was out before them therefore it came first therefore it reminds me of APB in character looks/design/customization
    - HarmonBlues
      
      Parabellum beta shut down in 2009. It was close to a year before the original All Points Bulletin went through its very short-lived beta in the summer of 2010 and shut down. So “either way [Parabellum] was out before them”
      - http://www.MasterRenny.com/ Thomas Renshaw
        
        APB had been in development since 2005 and seeing as parabellum never made it out of beta, it wasnt released, therefore it never came out, therefore ive never seen it or even heard of it. If ive never heard of something how can it remind me of something? AND looking at images on google seeing as there isnt much to go by, Parabellum characters had army suits only Bullet run and APB have a more customized style -.-
HappyHansel

Hey, that’s a great way to boost your show’s ratings.
My money is on Elixabeth.
http://profile.yahoo.com/Z36GPOU3Q2QIQYBIDVNQAVGNGE Raul

wtb giant snookie boss, and a flamethrower.
http://twitter.com/DaPhoolz Rp TheFoolz

of course, there has to be at least a bikini chick with a rifle in screenshot.