Shack: Can you tell me a little about the MMO portion of the game?
Julian Gerighty: (...)The MMO aspect is, it's kind of simple. You pick your faction--say, Russia--and you defend or attack alongside all your comrades. Let's say 100,000 people are playing--let's say you are all attacking Paris, you've won the conquest of Paris, you manage to win a majority of games on Paris that day, the next day, the map will be updated not only in the game but online, on the companion site, with the new battlefront, the new front line. And every day that will happen. There are 40 territories around the world, and it plays out like a RISK game between the three factions. You're basically playing the matches, but there's the overall RISK metagame on top of that.
Shack: And I assume the metagame will roll over at some point?
Julian Gerighty: We're anticipating every three weeks having a new world war. And we've got a community developer who's going to be creating events also. So maybe you'll turn on your console one day and you'll see a call to arms to dominate an oil refinery that's gonna give your mechanized units a boost, or an air strip that's gonna give your air units some increases too. So different territories have different strategic importance too.
