Friday, June 17, 2011 Characters

		Test your limits! Point Blank will test your skills as gamer with fast paced action, precision shooting, and twitch response times. Project Blackout’s graphics, surround sound, and camera effects will put you in the middle of the action and test your skills at a whole new level. Lock and load!
		Immersive Battlefields! Every map in Project Blackout is carefully crafted to give operators an immersive experience. With realistically skinned models and destructible environments, Project Blackout raises the bar for immersion in MMO shooters. Shoot through barriers to take out hiding enemies, employ explosives, dust, realistic ballistics, and utilize the environment to gain the edge and destroy your enemies! Need a quicker route through a map? Make your own! Destroyable architecture makes it possible to create a shortcut through a map to gain a tactical advantage when you really need it. As the environments change, so will the operators need to adjust tactics to survive. Effective use of the environment is key to an operator’s survival.
		Weapon Extensions A well trained operator knows that without a weapon you might as well be dead already. In Project Blackout many weapons come with extensions that augment the functionality of your weapon. Whether its dual magazines, holo sights, scopes, or red dots these extensions will give you an edge in battle. But it’s all up to Operator preference; you need to pick the weapon you’re most efficient with!
		Protect that thick skull! Body armor and helmets give operators the ability to protect vital organs and their heads from enemy fire. Enemies will be watching for you to poke your head out and take you down, so don’t be caught without proper protection! In Project Blackout, operators can shoot through enemies and barriers, so don’t rely on others or walls to protect you from that sniper. Smart tactics and good use of body armor will save an operator in a pinch! With the desire for customization always on the rise, operators will have choices of special defensive and offensive bonuses, and equipment to improve battlefield experience!
		Call to Duty! There’s more to war than killing! You need training, you need equipment, and you need experience. Operators in Project Blackout are expected to keep at the top of their game. Project Blackout offers special missions in game that will reward operators with special perks, items, and ranks. These missions will drive you to be more than just another grunt with a gun, they’ll turn you into an elite operator. Fortunately, these missions, while challenging, can be accomplished during regular play so you won’t need to be distracted while trying to complete your missions.

Point Blank takes place in the country of Korogese. Since its inception, Korogese has risen through the ranks of global power at a meteoric rate. So fast, that the piecemeal government can no longer sustain itself and has been taken over by the massive corporations and merchants that grew out of its success. Now that the country has matured, and the populace is at peace, these same corporations are seeking to disarm the general populace with the promise of laws to protect the innocent and police to keep the peace. But not all are so willing to accept this new form of peace. A group of rebels have risen from the ranks of the old defenders that kept their borders safe during their rise to power and formed a militia bent on making sure the corporations of Korogese never control the government. They refuse to be disarmed and will not listen to the will of the country’s corporate masters. Calling on the tactics and skills that gave them the power to maintain the country’s peace in years passed, they now seek to dismantle the machinations of the powerful corporations and merchants through guerilla warfare. From the corporations came Aegis Inc, a powerful, highly trained, para-military group that seeks to create a utopian society. From the groups of civilian rebels arose the The Corps, a skilled militia that holds to their rights as citizens and the upholders of the original Korogesian government. Both are fighting for their country, both are struggling to survive. Choose your side!

After graduating from the Aegis Inc training school, Acid petitioned to join a special group of fighters trained in counter-guerilla warfare. While he is highly skilled in all aspects of combat and tactics, he is unfriendly and gruff, earning him his call sign “Acid.”Having come from a merchant background, Acid sides with the right of Aegis Inc and the other corporations who wish to take over the governance of their country.
Keen Eyes was born into the fighting heritage of her people, but after her parents were killed she became a ward of the state and was sent to corporate schools after showing promise in childhood testing. Eventually she forgot her heritage and supported the Corporate Government. She wears a mask to cover her face, in fear that she will give away her mixed feelings about Aegis Inc’s current mission to eradicate The Corps. Her tendency to only show her eyes has earned her the call sign “Keen Eyes”.

Aurochs is the son of a Corpsman, when peace had seemed to come to their country, his parents encouraged him to study abroad where he made an impact at his university as a star footballer. When he returned home he discovered his parents gone, both killed in an attack by Aegis operatives. Despite being a footballer, Aurochs is an enormous man and intimidating to anyone of normal stature. His massive size and seemingly limitless stamina earned him the call sign “Aurochs” for the giant oxen of yore.
Tarantula lost her parents at an early age and was moved into a corporate schooling and orphanage facility. After being adopted by a wealthy business tycoon she was given a comfortable home and a life at an excellent school. However, when her adoptive parents soon had a child of their own, they began to neglect and mistreat Tarantula. When she could take it no more, she took the revolver her father kept in his study and murdered both of them.