As Buffy the Vampire Slayer announced to become a MMO game, Multiverse's Corey Bridges told the media recently that the game would be released in a 2D Flash-based version first,followed with a full 3D version, reported by Eurogamer.

The details are as below:

"What we're doing with the Buffy game then is releasing it in stages," he said. "It will start as a 2D Flash-based MMO where you can go on missions and interact with other players. This will extend once we have the 3D client working."

Bridges also confirmed that the two versions of the game would connect: "We're going to have these shared spaces where 2D and 3D people can interact," he said. But they would also diverge: "We're planning to have content that can only be done by 2D players, and content that can only be done by 3D players."

"The easy thing is to say that it will be more casual in the 2D version of the game, and more deep... in the 3D version." Multiverse is "planning for" avatars being able to switch between both versions of the game.

The 2D version will go into public beta "really soon", according to Bridges: "I'd love to get that out to players by the end of the year," he said.

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Resource: Eurogamer