Creating an in game community

[Madfish]

I've been playing chromehounds alot recently. Aside from the MP interface issues (damn pop ups!) it seems to like any inter-squad (re:clan) community in Live.

Something Epic might want to consider is social chat rooms in the game as pre-lobby locations, allowing players and clans to chat and er be social. It's something live games that I've come across seem to fall short on. (its all about emulating the bulletin board, since many XBOX users dont have PC's or aren't PC savey).

Anyone know any games with similar community elements? (PSO?).

[Crazy Danix]

I don't have any of the top of my head but I really do like that feature in chromehounds. And the idea of the persistent war. GoW could do that, I think that would make everyone even more deeply involved in the community. But I do agree that simple lobbies could be nice aswell.