EA's Redwood Shores studio is currently developing a next-gen RPG under the working title Project Gray Company, and is inviting gamers to offer comm🎀ents on the design of the game as more details are revealed.

Few details with regard to format choice and gameplay style have been released to date. Instead, the 🍒game is described as a next-gen RPG providing an "experience that allows the player to ꦗbe the hero in an expansive open world".

We also know that the game will use the same artificial-intelligence technology as was used in The Sims 2, and will be struct🦄ured a𒁃round a number of story quests.

seems to boster this theory (tell us those aren't Uruk-Hai faces in the picture𒀰 above), as does the fact that "Grey Company" was the name of a band of rangers who fought alongside Aragorn in J.R.R. Tolkien's books.

Project Gray Company's forum, also on the official s🅷ite,invites discussion on what makes a great RPG, and asks gamers to offer comments on the design of the game𒊎 as more details are revealed.

April 24,2006