Sitting somewhere, possibly at work, possibly not, humming various Disney themes? Hmm? Or perhaps trying to hum (consecutively) the title songs to Star Wars, Star Trek Next Generation and classic Superman?*
Well, stop all that! That's right, put away your humming apparatus (make sure the Floam flow is off and the Hannigan's Tubules are disconnected. Don't want any nasty accidents), get up, sit down again, and check out LEGO Universe!
That's right! Lego are releasing their much anticipated Massively Multiplayer Online Game this very year, 2010.
Our first glimpse of the richness of settings, details and parts shown in the video recollected the surge of excitement on first opening a brand new Lego set.
Except that with the game you can inhabit any Lego world, from pirates to space police. If thas doesn't get the gleeful feelings bubbling in your marrow, throw in an overarching storyline that involves saving imagination from an entity called The Maelstrom and... well. That should probably be enough for you. What else d'you want, selfish? One of the developers to come round and give you a massage every time you start up the game? A monorammed set of handkerchiefs? You make me sick.
The key words for the game are build, play, connect and customize. Frankly, we can't think of many things more thrilling than realising our most fervid brick imaginings with, potentially, the whole Lego brick catalogue at our disposal. And then stomping our clunky plastic feet all around the town, shouting about our latest creations.
With the world bound to explode in size and breadth almost as soon as it's released - what with the huge potential for user generated custom-designed content and the inevitable expansion to include themes old and new (we're particularly looking forward to seeing the gorgeous new Atlantis range realised) - the future's nothing if not dazzling. Dazzling and brick-shaped.
FireStar's going to be in Lego's MMO from the start. Are you?
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