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 Posted: Wed, 18th Aug 2004 13:57 Post subject: "New" Atari RTS |
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| Quote: | RTS games. We think we know them. According to Frenchmen Eugen Systems, we don't - their forthcoming Atari-published title Act of War: Direct Action is built on different ideas, like the need to medevac your wounded soldiers instead of just clicking on a Barracks and building some more, and the need to take prisoners rather than killing enemy combatants. Guantanamo Bay doesn't just fill itself.
In fact, there's some truth in that last bit, because the story behind the Direct Action is, in the words of Atari, "ripped from today's headlines" by best-selling author Dale Brown, who has crafted a tale in which a consortium of petroleum giants are financing international terrorism to try and destabilise the economy and profit from rocketing oil prices. It's up to us - us being a group of seasoned military types and young techies - to track them down and engage them on battlefields the world over.
Those battlefields, it seems, will be closer to home than we think, too. The fully 3D game world will let you zoom right down to street level on battlefields like San Francisco, Washington, Moscow, and even London - all detailed, realistic and destructible. Atari is also pledging high production values, and a "level of detail in character animations and textures only seen in FPS games to date." It's a claim that these rather impressive screenshots go some way to backing up.
Of course, in addition to all that, we can also expect multiplayer options and a single-player skirmish mode for some post-campaign fun. Perhaps in the long run Act of War will prove a little close for comfort - C&C Generals famously did for some people - but when it does roll around in spring 2005, we'll be keen to see how Eugen Systems has done. |
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| Posted: Wed, 18th Aug 2004 14:02 Post subject: |
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woow "Generals" Go Home This looks Awesome 
nicE piCS
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| Posted: Wed, 18th Aug 2004 14:12 Post subject: |
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ouuu, looks very good! alot of detail, and it seems your fighting in D.C.
Looks good!
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| Posted: Wed, 18th Aug 2004 16:24 Post subject: |
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Ouch !
In the current context, that subject is highly political and controversial. Could almost have his place on the world news forum.
Gaming wise, well this looks quite nice. but comparing it to FPS ? It doesn't look much more detailled than C&C génerals or ground control 2 for me.
An hole is an hole. Dick have no eyes.
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| Posted: Wed, 18th Aug 2004 16:40 Post subject: |
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those effects look at lot nicer than any RTS i can think of. u can distinguish things really easily. only thing i dont like is the warped look on the sky. still nice though. and why compare it to an FPS ffs!!! if they had FPS graphics on an RTS game it would lag so damn much thats why they dont do it.
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| Posted: Wed, 18th Aug 2004 18:23 Post subject: |
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After a better look at those screenshots, it looks photoshoped ...
First screen, on the right of the pic, look closely at the flame comming out of the tank's canon.
Look at the driving lights ... there's something wrong with their perspective I think. Same thing for the street lights ... they have all exactly the same angle, and they shouldn't. Like if they were 2D, or added atfer with photoshop.
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| Posted: Wed, 18th Aug 2004 18:30 Post subject: |
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I hope we get to use nukes in this, at least the tactical variety. Imagine how amazing they would look.
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| Posted: Wed, 18th Aug 2004 18:45 Post subject: |
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This game looks tasty - one to look forward to.
Im a cockfag
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Aug 2004 01:11 Post subject: |
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Looks good, bout time RTS got a re-vamp.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Aug 2004 03:01 Post subject: |
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Name is Act of War: Direct Action
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Aug 2004 03:12 Post subject: |
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gamespot has got some videos of the game i saw a few days ago
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Aug 2004 16:17 Post subject: |
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wow that looks pretty damn cool ,bet it will take a pretty beefy system to run it with no slow downs
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Aug 2004 17:02 Post subject: |
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Yeah, I'm interested to see what system such game will require.Not higher then ground contorl tough,
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