History VideoGame / AllPointsBulletin

* BribingYourWayToVictory:
** APB has "G1 credits" you can use to buy neat stuff with. It's not really needed though, as a player with decent marksmanship skills can take on any foe with the starting rifle.

* AKA47 - Both the cars and weapons are fictional, but you can recognize at least the [=AK47=], H&K USP, G36, MP7, Desert Eagle and fifth-generation Ford Mustang (named "Patriot Jericho" in the game).

** With the patch 1.8 you can also now give your guns purely cosmetic skins. In order to get these you need to have maxed out the rank for the weapon class, which requires around 10000 kills in total.

* BoringButPractical: The Joker SR15 Carbine and Obeya FBW pistol, both are not very flashy, lacking the speed or power of most not starter weapons but striking a very good balance between both, while being quite precise. Likewise the humble Star 556 is far from being useless.

* TheDitz - Britney Bloodrose. Said to be talentless, clingy and not very bright. Also speaks with a ValleyGirl accent. Veronika Lee is another ValleyGirl, but marginally smarter and much more badass looking. She is also more selfaware of it than Britney.

* DummiedOut - With the newest patch Pagan Bloodrose was fully removed. However her podest and equipment aswell as the Joker Ammo dispencers are still present.
** Original there were also two additional factions and one extra district planned. The RedRain and the SPPD in the Midtown District. Reverences to them can still be found in the character bios.

* FlavorText: The pre-designed clothes all have small descriptions about who designed them and in what context. These can range from being just informative to funny to squick inducing. An example of the later, one Bloodrose skirt apperently became popular after a woman wearing it gave birth to a baby during a famous show, life on camera.

* GasMaskMooks - with the newest patch the players can now look like this. Also TipToe of the criminals wears one.

** A particular infamous example is the usage of dumb trucks. These vehicles can blow up other cars by ramming them into other cars or walls without taking too much damage themself. Players soon found a way to use them to ruin other peoples mission by killing them with it in crucial chases.

* {{Itasha}} - With car customization, you can get impressive effects or abominations of various kinds. The latter are more common.

* OfCorsetsSexy - Charlotte and Lilith Bloodrose.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: Mostly subverted since damaging other cars with your own does not do much damage and trying to push them off to force the players to exit them is quite difficult. Brutaly subverted with the Dumptruck which once it get's speed is near unstopable and can cause smaller cars to explode by pushing them into others. This has become a tactic of some Griefers.

* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By The Devs]] - The game was released by Realtime Worlds already in high waters due to the prolonged development time, in an ObviousBeta state, and they did little to fix the kilometric list of problems it had, like they knew they were going belly-up already (mostly because of disastrous financial model of the company, as one of the ex-employees pointed out on his blog). The game had great potentialities but no time to reach a state to really express them, and people have basically paid to be beta-testers for a cancelled product. The game's servers were shut down a mere three months before release. The game has now been acquired by [=GamersFirst=] with a new Free To Play model and is currently in Open Beta.

* SoundtrackDissonance - When you'll hear songs like "Favorite Jeans" by Bertie Blackman or "Rewind" by Make Sparks, you will most probably ask yourself why the hell did the devs even choose it.

** Some Enforcers have a nasty habit of stunning the Criminals and then killing them.

* WrenchWench - Chiza. She liked boosting cars for joyrides (and not profit) prior to the formation of the Prentiss Tigers. Ophelia of the Praetorians is another, who apparently designed most of the Enforcer-only premium cars. As of now, she isn't available as a contact, but Chiza is.

** It gets worse if you read the backround informations provided by E-mails and Contacts. The entire media is apperently devoted to showcasing crime and death. Suji in particular mentions his reason for comming to San Paro is how common crime and death are, including a live TV show in which a masked men disects living animal.

** Suprisingly also the mentality of the G-Kings. They really think they can change something to the better.

One of the most important features is customization. During a presentation on Game Developers Conference, the creators showed lookalikes of [[BlackAndWhite Peter Molyneux]], [[{{Ultima}} Richard Garriott]], [[VideoGame/DeusEx Warren Spector]] and [[SuperMarioBros Shigeru Miyamoto]], complete with logos of their respective companies (or, in Miyamoto's case, the Mario sprite and [[GoofyPrintUnderwear boxers with the 1UP mushroom pattern]]) on their clothing. In a later gameplay, [[GearsOfWar Mark Rein]]'s character sports the [[{{Unreal}} U logo]] on his back.

* {{Bribing Your Way to Victory}}:

* FunnyBackgroundEvent - Being an open world MMO game these can be all over the place either on purpose or by accident.

* UnCanceled - APB has been released into a Free To Play Open Beta by [=GamersFirst=].

''APB: All Points Bulletin'' is a Massively Multiplayer Online Action Game, clearly inspired by the ''GrandTheftAuto'' series and developed by Real Time Worlds, creators of ''{{Crackdown}}''. The players can play either as [[CowboyCop Enforcers]] or as [[CaptainObvious Criminals]] of [[CityOfAdventure San Paro]] — for each side there are two factions (Prentiss Tigers and Praetorians for Enforcers, and G-Kings and Blood Roses for Criminals), each with its own bonuses and unlockable content.

* FunnyBackroundEvent - Being an open world MMO game these can be all over the place either on purpose or by accident.

* FunnyBackroundEvents - Being an open world MMO game these can be all over the place either on purpose or by accident.

* TheDitz - Britney Bloodrose. Said to be talentless, clingy and not very bright. Also speaks with a ValleyGirl accent. Veronika Lee is another ValleyGirl, but marginally smarter and much more badass looking.

** Subverted in the full game. Only the Bloodroses have all members wear black and red, the G-kings, Praetorians and Tigers all wear different colored clothes.

** Subverted for most players who will just use what ever colors they making the red or green name and the faction tag the only way to seperate Enforcer players from Criminal players.

* FlavorText: The bredesigned clothes all have small descriptions about who designed them and in what context. These can range from being just informative to funny to squick inducing. An example of the later, one Bloodrose skirt apperently became popular after a woman wearing it gave birth to a baby during a famous show, life on camera.

* BoxedCrook - Ty Durrant.

* CelebrityResemblance - An early version of Michael Simeone looked like RayLiotta.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Double B.

* StandardStatusEffects - Enforcers can use Less-Than-Lethal armaments such as a taser pistol and a bean-bag rifle. These weapons can stun Criminals, leaving them helpless for a few seconds and able to be arrested by an Enforcer, giving them double rewards and taking the Criminal out of the game for longer then a simple kill would. Criminals universally consider these weapons {{Game Breaker}}s. This also has more irritation as the criminal is forced to kneel for several seconds helpless, allowing the enforcers plenty of time to abuse the game's numerous dance emotes options.

** Actually, the OSMAW is often regarded as overpowered because it has a HUGE blast radius, and anyone caught in it will be instakilled.