Huge enthusiasm forecasts good fortune for ‘Destiny’ video game

  • 10 years ago
It cost half a billion U.S. dollars to develop, but the creators of 'Destiny' are confident it will be the next big thing in the video gaming world.

SOUNDBITE: Destiny fan, Demario Grant, saying (English):

"The game looks amazing, I've seen the graphics, it looks quality, and yeah, can't wait to get into it."

SOUNDBITE: Unidentified gamer, saying (English):

"The game's massive, the map's massive, it's endless, that's the way gaming should be."

'Destiny' combines a traditional shooting game format and a role-playing set-up.

Gamers can be "Guardians", protecting the last city on post-apocalyptic earth in a real-time, on-line world.

Activision, the U.S.'s largest video game publisher by revenue, funded Destiny's developer, Bungie.

Wesley Yin-Poole, a journalist with 'Eurogamer' website, says he thinks that investment will pay off.

SOUNDBITE: Wesley Yin-Poole, 'Eurogamer' journalist, saying (English):

"I guess it's kind of like s

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