Why a new player experience?
One of the trickiest challenges for any massively multiplayer online game is leading new players into the world in a satisfactory manner. Getting them to see the depth and possibilities found within, without alienating them, is quite simply damn hard, especially with games with as many choices as you find in Anarchy Online. Seeing how we have had well over 700,000 players through the new player experience, it's something we have been constantly working on to improve. With Alien Invasion, we are therefore, once again, creating a brand new experience for beginners.

We did this with Anarchy Online - Shadowlands as well, the previous expansion pack. Since we are not including it in the Alien Invasion retail box, we therefore saw the need to make a new area for all newcomers. Inspired by the great feedback we received on the new player experience in Shadowlands, the design team decided to give the entire AO intro a brand new face.