baby arm Posted May 11, 2006 Report Share Posted May 11, 2006 Bioshock E3 Impressions at IGN Irrational continued on to show us the security system. In one instance, a corpse lay directly in the sweeping path of a camera. Options for progressing included simply leaving the body be, shooting the camera, backtracking to a security console and disabling the security system for a certain cost, or trying to avoid the sweep of its vision. The latter option was decided upon, but after looting some Adams from the corpse, the security system activated. We'd been caught. Hovering swiftly into the room hummed security robots, and promptly began spewing bullets. The movements of these flying menaces were governed entirely by Havok 3.0 physics, meaning there was no canned flying animation. A few armor piercing rounds took one out rather quickly, but they kept coming. Heading back the security outlet, the security station was activated, immediately shutting down the alert, as well as powering down the hovering drones. Though it wasn't shown, Irrational assured us that a hacking system would be included in the game, which would differ depending on what kind of hack you were attempting. They didn't demo it, but it would have been possible to hack into a deactivated security bot and use it for your own purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Gringo Posted May 11, 2006 Report Share Posted May 11, 2006 Jade Emprie for PC Finally! Ever since Neverwinter Nights came out for PC and this other masterpiece Jade Empire came out for Xbox about the same time I wondered when Jade Empire would come out for the PC.As for the uninitiated to Jade Empire. The game is Neverwinter Nights best far eastern martial artist style/mythology. And after 3-4 years of waiting for an answer I got one. As much as the game looked to dang cool it didn't make me want to by an Xbox (Microsoft is like the worlds largest vacuum cleaner). A lot of things has happend in the world of computers in those 3-4 years and I hope that they 'update' the game like putting in HDR, Bloom and support for the PhysX card and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Have a look at three pages' worth of screenshots from the recently unveiled 'Battle Lord' TB fantasy RPG game. Looking pretty darn sweet, eh ? :: We shall hopefully learn more about the game from either Olav or the folks over at Tacticular Cancer, so stay tuned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted May 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 From the screens that game reminds me slightly about Heroes 5... With it and Disciples III coming, we should have a good selection in that genre! As for the game, it was still in early production from what 1C said. I got their press kit for E3 however, so I'll see if there's anything interesting on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 "With it and Disciples III coming, we should have a good selection in that genre" Hooray for the TB gaming revival! :: "I got their press kit for E3 however, so I'll see if there's anything interesting on it." Looking forward to further developments, then, Olav. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted May 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 I just finished looking through the press kits. I only picked up the ones from Russian publishers for some reason, but I think that was a good choice. Buka, 1C and Akella all had very neat press kits, and there were several interesting games on display. Unlike western publishers, they pretty much do all sorts of strange games - the pirate game with heavy metal music playing in the background being the most amusing one! I'll do a short writeup of some of the gems there after posting the Jagged Alliance 3D interview part one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted May 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 New Bioshock screens at Boomtown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimli Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Saw this on NMA, didn't have time to check it out much: Omega Syndrome: Website: https://www.ausgamedev.com/ It's a CRPG, AND it has aliens. What more could you want? Anyone know more about this, or is willing to check out the page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baby arm Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 It's kind of like "Fallout meets the X Files". It's good, but not good enough for me to shell out for the full version yet. Of course, the last version of the demo I played was about a year ago so it may be a lot better now. Dave tends to update it pretty frequently and incorporates player suggestions. Bottom line: any Fallout fan should at least try the demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted June 10, 2006 Report Share Posted June 10, 2006 There's something fishy going on - it's ALTAR Game's Fish Filets II ! :: No need to get crabby ; the puzzle game and its features have finally been officially disclosed online by ALTAR at IDEA Games' site (after a discrete public announcement about the project during E3). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted June 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Thief Interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted June 17, 2006 Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 Wizards Of The Coast is launching a new TB miniature game come this August. It's called "Dreamblade" and an online 'demo' is available to get a taste of it. :: Just a little something extra for the TB strategy junkies. That's right - soon no off-line rest for you either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted June 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 Somewhat on the site, but the rights for Fallout P&P RPG has been sold it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted June 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 Second part of Thief interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Gringo Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 When browsing through upcoming game release I game across this game:JAWS UnleashedSo who wants to be a Great White Shark and terrorize the local enviroment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 To quote Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part 2: That shark still looks fake. Joking aside though, the graphics look like they're from about five years ago Still, if the gameplay makes up for it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted June 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 System Shock 3 rumours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 SS3?! I can find plenty of rumors, but nothing on EA's site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted June 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 Well, that's the thing with rumours...they're rumours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernel Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 Well knowing EA it'll be a huge pile of crap designed for Consoles. Just like Deus Ex: Invisible War. I'm still looking forward to Bioshock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted July 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2006 Drawn to be alive is an upcoming UT2004 modification that looks quite interesting. Check out the video here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Why there's System Shock 3... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Not... :: EA at it's usual best. Fortunately there's BioShock to look out for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimli Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 A little late to run into the article Slaughter linked to in his last post, but here's my comment. "We have a publisher who cares about this game, and they believe in this kind of game. 2K Games is the company that helped reinvigorate Elder Scrolls [with The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion] and Civilization. They believe in core games", Levine said. Helped reinvigorate Elder Scrolls? By saying that the game wouldn't sell, and thus not agreeing to fund it? Or was it by crawling back to Bethesda practically "begging" them to allow them to market/produce/sell the game once they realized that Bethesda raised a lot of hype? Alas, Bethesda had other plans... so 2K only got to take care of selling the game.It also makes me wonder how did Take 2 get losses of ~30 million in the first fiscal quarter of 2006 and 50 million in the second if they "reinvigorated" Elder Scrolls and Civilization (4) - which seems like quite a good game to me, though I haven't been able to give it much attention. In fact Civ 4 has had so many new things I liked, I would have expected it sell millions seeing as how Civ has enormous reputation. Then again I didn't play all of it. But that last sentence is ingenius. I hate to break it to him, but they don't. They just want to milk the developers they can and then throw them away, while leaving them to get the flak for 2K/T2's disastrous marketing (in)ability. The poor guy is actually convinced they care about his game. There's this slim hope that people in 2K might have learned by now what they should have learned in whichever economy school they went to, but it's slim... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimli Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 A Visit to Telltale Games (Sam&Max screenshots) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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