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Take-Two Interactive, owners of 2K Games, Rockstar Games, and their various subsidiaries, has opened a partnership with XLGames of South Korea to turn one of the U.S. publisher’s properties into an MMORPG. Take-Two’s stable of titles is incredibly expansive, including the BioShock games and the recently released L.A. Noire, but the question remains as to which of the publisher’s many properties will be seeing the massively-multiplayer online treatment.  Grand Theft Auto seems the obvious choice—the series is already set in sprawling cities loaded with vibrant characters—but any of the company’s open world games could prove an apt fit. Other possible titles include the highly acclaimed Red Dead Redemption and even the Midnight Club series of racers. There’s already a new BioShock game in the works (BioShock Infinite), but the game’s new setting would make an online multiplayer return to a pre-fall Rapture an enticing proposition. And one can’t ignore that Borderlands already has a multiplayer framework similar to classic RPG Diablo II, which Blizzard used as inspiration for their MMO juggernaut, World of Warcraft. It’s clear that Take-Two has an incredible lineup of games to sort through. Let’s just hope the resulting MMO does more than just tarnish the reputation of a great series. |