Auto Assault Preview

Eurogamer has kicked up a preview of Auto Assault, after spending some firsthand time with NCsoft and NetDevil's post-apocalyptic vehicular MMORPG. An excerpt to follow:
Auto Assault is very much the game end of the MMO spectrum. In fact, it's somewhere distinctly different. Ryan smiles as he jokingly describes the game as "Massively-Single-player", arguing that while playing in a group is a thrill in most games, the majority of time in most is spent quietly doing your own thing. He had a point. In many games, the other players do little other than act as a very atmospheric background for your own adventures. Auto Assault has been designed that, no matter what your class, you can progress through it happily solo. While there's plentiful support for group play, including features like automatic voice-communication whenever you form a convoy (Game slang for a group), the aim seems to be a game where this is very much an optional activity all the way through. Unlike - for example - hypothetical games that may allow you to solo up to a point, and then change the game dynamic so you have to team up with other people, else die.