Auto Assault Preview

GameSpy has conjured up a new three-page preview of NCsoft and NetDevil's post-apocalyptic vehicular MMORPG, Auto Assault. A snippet, as usual:
NetDevil has also given serious consideration to the different types of PvP combat that players will have available. Universal, organized PvP combat will be accessible from the get-go through the OCD, or the Organization for Combat Driving. The OCD is somewhat similar to World of Warcraft's Battlegrounds system in that it's a separate parallel play structure specifically devoted to PvP. The OCD system is far more elaborate, however, with a full ladder and player and clan ranking systems, as well as providing for pick-up games. NetDevil plans to schedule tournaments with unique prizes as well as clan competitions. Interestingly, they've also taken a few lessons from their competition by instituting cross-server functionality and allowing intra-racial combat only in the OCD arena. This is clearly to avoid the perpetual World of Warcraft problem of finding games because of a lack of opponents. They're also disallowing the use of any in-game items, which should serve to make OCD competitions more skill than stat-based.