That's a pretty spectacular write-up from the guys over at MMORPG.com! I might be reading too much in to what's been written, but there's one particular line which concerns me: I was under the impression Eternal Crusade was going to be a relatively large open world? Fighting "around the board" seems like an arena or small instance, similar to what was delivered in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. It wouldn't surprise me if this early-Alpha build that MMORPG.com got to play was a small instanced arena for testing purposes, but I really hope this isn't actually what's going to be delivered in the final product. Never the less, it's a pretty spectacular write-up for such an early stage in development. I can't wait to see/read more!
In one of their twitts or forum replys before christmas, devs said they have created new 9 square kilometers arena to test the mechanics and be able to use vehicles, cause the first arena that they showed us in "meet the team" videos was just a fort arena they used in beggining. So it is only for testing purposes.
Ah! Quite right. I forgot about that, and yeah, that was Steve Lumpkin from memory (I think?). Good stuff!
A quote from the (pre-alpha) interview (first paragraph): http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/954/feature/8141 Probably something like this, i love that :
