The UI is clumsy and confusing, the graphics are painfully noughties, and the car I've just hijacked feels like it's floating. While scooting over to my first mission, I'm struck by just how dated everything seems. You're pitted against another random team, and the capers I got involved were all wrapped up in fifteen minutes or less. That might involve hacking something or capturing a control point, for reasons that are attached to crime committing or preventing that I didn't care enough about to read the particulars of. When you tell the game you're ready for it, APB assigns you a team of four and a random mission in a near-ish area. When I get no reply, I decide I better get on with stopping some crimes. I wait for a spot to open up in one of then, jump in and send a message through the district chat asking for people to interview.
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I'm playing in the middle of the day, but there are still eight or so full servers, each with 80 people in them. The second thing happens when I press the random button on the character customisation screen, and instantly see a cop who resembles a slightly less beardy Bob Ross. The first notable thing that happens when I launch APB is that it plops an advert into my browser like an unwanted, unexpected turd. Then I remembered I was a games journalist, and that I should just go in and ask. I bet that most everyone who read that post was too, and I bet you're thinking it right now. Why are people still playing APB Reloaded? I left that question unspoken when I wrote about Little Orbit picking up the cops and robbers MMO a couple of weeks ago, but you can bet I was thinking it.