"Two Worlds Homepage
A dark, mystical, larger-than-life role-playing world is the scene of Topware Interactive's
3rd person RPG - Two Worlds."

"The inhabitants of the Kroth Universe live a dream-like existence – until one day in the year
3001 a violent space-time collision changes things for good. When the dust settles, only two
races have survived. Their people hardened by the bitter experience, they engage in climactic battle – to the death. And that's where you come in. You must decide which side has what it
takes to emerge victorious - and cast your lot accordingly."

"TopWare Interactive has created a special web site just for this project. Press, distributors and
end users can find the latest detailed information on Two Worlds under www.2-worlds.com."

More great stuff at GameSpy. Today they review Tachyon: The Fringe, a huge space RTS that looks promising. Check out the review at

The layout of the Winfast GeForce2 GTS board seems to be very close to the Nvidia reference design. My review unit came without the optional TV-Out, but Leadtek tells me this should change very shortly. The board is also fitted with an unusually large fan/heatsink combo overtop of the GeForce2 chip. Combine this with the more efficient .18-micron manufacturing process and the 6ns DDR SGRAM that the GeForce2 uses and this board should make for some good Overclocking.

Once you have gone through the tutorials, which can take a few hours to do, then you can proceed to the game. Single player lets you choose one of 3 races, the Solarians who are decadents from the humans. The Kra’hen, a brutal warlike race from another galaxy or the Shinari, a diplomatic race who feel that diplomacy & trade is the success to everything. Multiplayer allows you to choose even more races, you get the 3 in single player plus 5 others, the Antari, Iberon, Godan, Cheblon & Tuolen, up to 6 of these may be computer controlled.

What has happened to RPGs? For the last couple of years, we have witnessed a huge RPG explosion thanks nonetheless to titles like Diablo and Baldur's Gate. I've played those games and enjoyed them, but I was still left with a sour taste in my mouth when they were over. Is that it? I have often asked myself, and waited patiently for the next big thing. There are a number of items I can put my finger on that I feel are lacking. Meaningful interaction with NPCs, a true sense of accomplishment when you level up or obtain that hard to find artifact, and a real connection with your character and party members. I will never forget Minsc and his wonderful pet, and his great one-liners, but after his side quest was over there was little much he offered except being extra firepower. In Diablo, the character I played wasn't an extension of myself, but a zombie I controlled to hack and slash my way to the end. When RPGs have tried to bridge the gap between player and central character, the often feel less like an RPG, and more like an adventure game with stats. However, offerings like Vampire have created great central characters that are a pleasure to play and direct. It is a hard balance to find, giving the player a real sense of control and self -- something that pen and paper games have been doing for a long time. There are some interesting RPGs on the horizon for release this year that seem to offer hope for the genre, some are hybrids like Deus Ex, and others like Soulbringer have such fiendishly addictive gameplay that is sure to keep people coming back for more. For the past two weeks, I haven't slept. Soulbringer has had me glued to the monitor with a lopsided grin on my face.

Let the robots fight in peace

Yeah! Go for the scientists!

Regarding your questions, the Internet demo will be out in a few days, but it won't have any multiplayer features.

Also stated is that Ground Control will be in stores sometime during the first few days of June.

In terms of a release date, I can say that GC will be out in the stores during the first days of June, so June 1st is probably a little too optimistic..:)

As for our quote, "To say that this game is a milestone for RTS to come is an understatement", I'm not yet sure if it's on the box, although since there are only 3 quotes on the Massive page, and Sierra asked us permission to use it, It may well be. I guess we will have to wait and see.

So how does it all go? Without revealing much, you do all the flight instructing, ring-course, and combat training to get paid. You then take the jobs offered and if you fail, you are given a chance to re-play or continue. If you continue, you won't get a second chance at that failed job. If you succeed, you will get paid, hear useful information, and be privy to ship new upgrades.

JAS is very close to being complete. However, it is currently up to our publisher, Electronic Arts, to decide whether or not we can wrap it up. After 2.5+ years in the making, it'd be a shame to see this game turn into vaporware, when the end is just within reach.

Sincere thanks for your support and interest,

Darren Lafreniere
Janes Attack Squadron programmer

What type of world is Dark Zion? Fantasy? Science-fiction? A hybrid? Can you explain a little of the backstory?

Dark Zion is a hostile world that has been ravaged and mutated by some unknown events in the past. The story of Dark Zion is mostly science fiction. The starting premise of Dark Zion is that the players, as descendants of a long-forgotten crew of intergalactic colonists, are awakened in the subterranean machinery of a desolate and nearly inhospitable world. The resultant theme of Dark Zion becomes the players' attempts to reclaim the surface, and in doing so, to learn how and why Zion became the hostile world that it is. Beyond that is the conflict of keeping surface civilization viable with or against the knowledge of Zion's past.

Wezer: When can we expect the release of b 6.5?
Gooseman: 1 week, give or take, with the new patch.

Wezer: Why was the words on cs.net changed?
Gooseman: Valve had to add a few new features, just small things, but they took time.

Wezer: Will cs ever become version 1.0?
Gooseman: Yes in the future but things are still concentrated on 6.5 and eventually beta 7.

1.) I guess the obvious first question should be how close is Icewind Dale to going gold, and are there any features announced for the game that might not make the final version?

We’re getting very close, I can say that. The team has found and crushed a large number of bugs in the past few weeks. As always, we’re not at liberty to give a specific date for release, but we hope to be done very, very soon. As for features in the game, it wouldn’t be wise or truthful to comment about the status of any of our features before the game ships.

2.) Icewind Dale has had a very quick turnaround for a computer game, what features do you think might have made there way into the Icewind if you had had about 6 more months for development?

It’s hard to say. Perhaps we could have made GUI artwork and code for 800x600 mode. That’s an oft-requested feature. We might have had time to tweak some of the class-related abilities a bit more as well. However, for people used to Baldur’s Gate, our implementation of the ruleset will definitely be a step forward.

Irwin: How many maps does the team hope to include in the initial release?

Saint_Proverbius: Hopefully more than 10.

Irwin: I see the team plans a few new game types, currently which one looks the most promising? Which one is the team’s favorite?

Saint_Proverbius: They’re more scenario ideas right now. We’re planning on allowing the mappers to script their own maps and hopefully we’ll make the scripting customizable enough that the mappers will be the ones who can make scenarios for themselves. This is similar to how Quake Team Fortress did their maps with brush entities, only SoF has that nice DS script we can use.

Irwin: Data thief sounds quite interesting, will there be a limit to how many spies a team can have?

Saint_Proverbius: That will most likely depend on the mappers themselves or how we decide to do it. A feature such as allowing a limit to classes should be left up to the mapper.

Warcraft III

Summoner

Gunlok

Evil Islands

MDK2 is like playing three separate games in one nice package. With Kurt, you play a sniper, trying not to engage the enemy directly. His puzzles focus on "hit the little blue sphere" type that gradually grow in difficulty (though you learn to hate the bouncing targets...). Max is like playing Quake III with a character that can go super-akimbo style, with four weapons. His puzzles deal with platform jumping, and figuring out what wall to blow up so he can go on.

[witchboy] Imagine if every conspiracy theory you've every heard were true...not true in a wacky sort of way, but true within the framework of a very plausible near-future world. The player plays an agent with the code name JC Denton. (Though the player can choose JC's 'real name' which is used throughout the game in non-prerecored-speech elements, JC's ethnic background and appearance, his nanotech augmentations and perhaps most importantly his skills. Set in what we've described as a Blade Runner meets X-Files world, Deus Ex tells a complex story and allows the player to solve each problem in multiple ways. (Stealth, diplomacy, combat, demolitions, hacking, etc.) The "objective" as it were is somewhat up to the player: we have 3 different endgames based on how you play.

The official Something Awful E3 Report is chock full of electronic entertainment goodness. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll gain a fear of video game mascots.

Old Man Murray's E3 Wrapup is another report that'll keep you laughing for awhile. It's got babes, beer, games, and China. What more can you ask for?

And finally, Scott Kurtz has kicked up his official PvP E3 Journal. He talks about Warcraft 3, EverQuest, and breaking into parking garages.

Lets just start with the Graphics and the engine. For a twist Innerloop decided to use a Fly Sim engine for a 1st person shooter and everyone thought it was crazy. As crazy as it may seem, WOW, is all I can say. The Graphics are incredible.

With only six short weeks until Final Fantasy IX's Japanese launch, more game details have emerged. The game will feature mini-games galore, although most of these are still unknown. One mini-game that has been announced, however, is a version of Final Fantasy VIII's popular "Triple Triad" card game, which will feature a new set of rules and a new look.

Westwood are hard at work on Command and Conquer: Renegade. Which wont be RTS, this one is... how can I put it... umm Rambo in a Tomb Raider World. You ride around on rocket bikes, flame tanks and you can even fly an orca. Sounds pretty sweet to me. It’s not an original idea, but it will be fun doing all the things you did in C&C but from the first person perspective. I can’t wait to plant some C4 on a building, and snipe some troopers off.

Camelot Vault has a new featured screenshot from the Norse realm in Dark Age of Camelot. The Camelot Screenshot Archive has also been updated to include the latest images available.
Dark Age of Camelot is a 3D massively multiplayer RPG being developed by Mythic Entertainment and is due out mid-2001.

GA-Strategy has been updated with nine new screenshots from WizCom Entertainment's upcoming real-time mecha strategy title, TRANS.

Digital Fusion is currently developing Beach Head 2000, a full 3D arcade-like shooter that promises the addictive gameplay of Atari's classic Missile
Command. More info and screens here

Shiny Entertainment sent GA-Strategy a pair of new screenshots from their upcoming real-time strategy hybrid, Sacrifice.

Westwood Studios Announces Nox World Cup
LAS VEGAS, May 26, 2000 - Thousands of dollars in prizes are at stake in the Nox (tm) World Cup, a worldwide tournament sponsored by Westwood Studios(tm)
with the support of EBWORLD.COM and Prima Games. The competition will begin June 1 on Westwood Online(sm), Westwood's online gaming service. The Nox Grand Championship will bring the finalists to sunny Las Vegas to battle for the title of best Nox player in the world.

Nox players over the age of 18 in the United States, Canada (excluding Quebec) and other selected countries are eligible to compete. Each eligible country is holding its own contest with its own set off rules.

To qualify in North America, the players must play Nox on the official Westwood Online tournament ranking system between June 1 and June 30 and be one of the top two players to get the highest score of all the players listed for their country's Nox players.

The top two players at the top of each participating country's list of highest scoring players will be flown to Las Vegas for four days and three nights to compete in the Grand Championship. The winner of the Grand Championship will take home a computer system worth close to $2,500, and the official Nox World Cup trophy.

The official Nox World Cup rules and other information can be found at www.westwood.com .

Although the show is now over, work hasn't exactly slowed down for Tommy or the rest of the development team as they move forward towards beta testing, which is expected to begin this summer. Nonetheless, he somehow, he found enough time to write a new Anarchy Online Developer Journal. This time, his topic is an extremely interesting one and one of Anarchy Online's core design principles, making the game accessible and enjoyable for both hardcore and non-hardcore gamers. Enjoy!

WCPUID is the program that displays the CPU information of your personal computer. Shows Internal / External Clock, Multiplier, Cach info., AGP Info. etc ...

Now that Fong has launched an Internet portal for gaming enthusiasts in Point Richmond, business competitors marvel at his ability to score points with new recruits.

Recruiting is not a game to Fong. But he does apply his game skills -- a lethal combination of quick reflexes and mental agility known to gamers as "Thresh ESP" -- to winning over the five to 10 people a week who join Gamers.com.

"This company is all about the people," he said. "It's all about talent."

>>I don't mean to complain, but has anyone else noticed that we never get healthy text updates from George anymore? Back in the day, we would get a meaningful .plan update every couple months that actually let us in on how the game was progressing.

It'a all part of learning. It's just not a good idea to do all that stuff too early in a game's development. We've backed off because in the long run it's better this way.

Yes, in the short term the loyal fans miss out on some info, but by doing this we manage to keep hype down a little bit and that's a good thing.

I would maybe expect a DNF Diary to open up in the future on the 3DR site, where we can post progress that we think you would find interesting.

We haven't forgotten about you guys at all, we're just re-focusing on what's important. Working on the game and eliminating too much hype too early.

George Broussard, 3D Realms

As we promised in the previous article, here is our update to this great and wonderful topic of FSAA. We have a few benchmarks of the new Detonator 5.22 and Voodoo5 5500 V1.1drivers in action as well as the necessary FSAA comparisons. As usual, the Detonators are in various stages of beta so the standard disclaimers of performance and all that stuff have to be said. I doubt the Voodoo drivers are complete either, so I guess the same would apply there too. Chances are we won't give a rats ass as to how either of these cards function by the time any of these drivers are complete and need no further updating. Something new and shiny will have caught our eye by then.

I should begin by making sure we're all on the same page (little website joke there. Get it? Same page? I kill me.) regarding some useful terms. For starters, let's look at "poly." Now, I know that most of you understand what I mean when I talk about a poly, but I'm sure that amongst the countless millions of my readers there are probably a few people who aren't aware of the connection between parrots and game development. No, no, no…just kidding. A poly is not, in fact, a reference to a talking bird…it's short for polygon, meaning a 2-dimensional shape composed of any number of sides (triangles, rectangles, etc.). Another important and closely related term is "mesh." A mesh is a collection of connected polys, potentially 2D but usually 3D. For example, a poly could be one side of a cube, but a mesh might refer to the entire cube. Speaking of cubes, a "bounding box" (or bbox, for short) is basically a large, invisible cube or box surrounding an entity in the game. The player never sees it, but the g ame code uses it as an indication of how big an entity is. Another important term here is a "trace." This isn't so much an object, like a mesh or poly, but an action. When we perform a trace in the code, we're starting from a given point in 3D space (like, say, the muzzle of a player's gun) and "trace"ing a line in a certain direction from that point (like, say, in the direction of a bullet). The purpose of a trace is to determine what exists in the game world along that line. There. Those are pretty much all of the high-tech, multi-syllable words we need to discuss SOF's hit detection system and how Ghoul fits into it.

There's a brand new build of Q3Radiant available in the files section. This full setup contains the latest binaries from Id software and contributions from the community. Thanks to everyone who got involved in this release! You'll find several ready-to-use plugins in the setup. Check the plugin section for updates. A plugin SDK is also available. Q3Radiant source code will be released soon, more info about writing plugins and getting involved will come later.

TRANS Shots on GA-Strategy

Summoner Shots on Daily Radar

Cataclysm Shots on IGN

Dark Reign II Shots and Movie on Daily Radar

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption shots on RPGamer

Tribes II Shots on PCGameWorld

Sanity Video on GameFan

OpFor Shot on VoodooExtreme

Midtown Madness Shots on Operation Sports

Vampire Shots on Vampire Vault

MechWarrior 4 Shots on SteelCommand

Dark Age of Camelot Shot on Camelot Vault

Titanium Angels Movie on Titanium Tech

Giants Shots on IGN PC

Tim, what are your plans now? Any job oppurtunities?

Oh, Lord yes. Got two job offers before I left the office this afternoon, and four calls from headhunters. That's not even counting the LG folks who are thinking about forming companies. It's a feeding frenzy.

so who gets money for Thief 2 sales now, Tim?

T2 royalties go to LGS' creditors.

Can a company that makes games as innovative and intelligent as LGS survive?

ShadowJack: I think so. Those things aren't necessarily incompatible with making games more or less on schedule and budget, which was really always a big part of the problem. And which we were actually finally getting pretty good at, ironically.

GameSpy: What did Paul (Neurath) and Bill (Carlson) tell you about the closing?

Tim Stellmach: In a nutshell, that Looking Glass was closing down effective immediately, that they had done everything they could to prevent that, but that ultimately it didn't work out. There were lots more details, but I think they're mostly covered in your other questions.

GameSpy: Is there anything about the finances of Looking Glass and/or about the deal with Eidos that fell through that you can tell us?

TS: Looking Glass was stuck in a position of trying to run a couple of projects that weren't bringing in much money up front. Jane's Attack Squadron was slipping its schedule significantly due (at least in part) to a major redesign of the game partway through, at the insistence of the publisher. We also had an action/espionage title in early development, originally contracted out to Irrational Games. When they pulled out of the project, so did its publisher (Microsoft), along with a lot of expected advances.

This put Looking Glass in a very bad position in terms of cash. The Thief line was bringing in profits, and in the end JAS was only about a quarter out from shipping, but we weren't due to receive royalty payments on Thief II yet and were basically faced with the prospect of running out of money.

In defense of ultraviolence...

Ultraviolence. Violence for violence's sake. It isn't brutish, it isn't sick, and it most certainly isn't stupid. For some of us, it is quite natural. Sex, violence, music -- these things have been around since the dawn of humankind. They have entertained, inspired and sometimes delivered man from the constrictive hell he's created for himself. Violence is in our blood. To deny what we feel in our instincts, to bend our will to that of the larger society... that is unnatural. That is unhealthy.

According to McKimmey, players will control everything in Dark Zion. From the constructs of civilization, to social order, economy, the shape of the world, everything will be able to be manipulated and changed by the players. "The world will not be static at all," stresses McKimmey. "Anything the player can get his or her hands on will be able to be used, abused, or disposed of." In addition, GA-RPG has also been informed that Dark Zion will not have NPCs, therefore eliminating the repetitive and often canned dialogue of most role-playing games.

Q3Post is an mIRC script that lets you:

Automatically post in mIRC a server's IP address and description, whenever you connect to a Quake 3 Arena server, while you play.

Quickly get the stats from, or connect to, Quake 3 Arena servers in a customizable favorites list, all from mIRC.

Automatically respond to questions in IRC while you are playing that contain your nickname, or other keywords you can set. The response will let the person know what server you last connected to. These responses turn on when you connect to a new server, and off when you say something in mIRC, or you can control them through Q3Post's menu.

Choose which IRC channels it will post messages in, and which types of messages will be posted.

Although there are several options available to aid the less experienced, veterans might recognize and appreciate Formula One 99's use of some tried-and-true genre standbys. Weather, for example, can greatly affect the dynamic of a particular race. A bright, sunny day might strike you as the ideal condition for racing, but this is not always the case. Dark, rainy days can occur at any given racing "weekend," forcing you to re-think your vehicular setup as well as your racing tactics. For example, having to face a rain-drenched track might urge you to shorten your gear ratios, giving you better acceleration while sacrificing the high speeds that cause your car to aquaplane and spin off the track. Weather doesn't necessarily stay consistent throughout a race, however, and may cause you to make some changes mid-stream. If the clouds disperse before the competition is over, the track may dry up which in turn will overheat your rain tires. In such cases, making a pit-stop is not only a good idea; it's practically necessary. Your pit crew can implement any number of changes that you request, whether it's changing your tires or adjusting your suspension. They are invaluable during particularly lengthy races, although the speed limit within the pit area will cost you quite a bit of time, rendering your choice of entries a very strategic one. Despite their importance to your success, your pit crew are hardly done justice in terms of visuals, and are but one of many elements which are found to be graphically regrettable.

By the way, here are some recent reviews of Daikatana:

Game Revolution

Maximum PC

GameFan

We have identified the problem. Yes, there IS a problem. We have isolated it and have a test in place to catch all the boards with the problem. As expected, this problem only affects a small percentage of the boards so we expect to be able to resolve this very quickly.

Alf
3dfx Interactive, Inc.

SportPlanet: The original MCM proved to earn its keep and stick around in the community for quite some time; what was done with MCM2 to add extendibility and replay value to the game?

Robb: Our new environments are truly breathtaking when you first see them. The game is just beautiful. The artists did a fabulous job with every aspect of the games content. The physics are funner than ever. The new wheelies are very addictive. The sounds are totally immersive and give a great sense of being in a pack of dirt bikes.
From an extensibility stand-point we are shipping are new terrain editor called Armadillo. It will allow users to create terrains for every event type in the game including: Baja, Stunts, Enduro, Nationals, Supercross. This tool will certainly help keep MCM2 alive in the multi-player community over the coming year.

Now that the code is complete, there are two major steps left before release: content completion and beta testing. The mapping is coming along quite well, and many of the mappers are putting the finishing touches on their arenas. Several are ready for beta already, or will be by the end of the week. I'll also be working this week to finalize the selections for the soundtrack. Tons of awesome music has been submitted, and it's been difficult to narrow the selection. If you sent in music, rest assured I've heard it and will get back to you soon. No predictions on release yet -- we want to make sure the first RA3 release is as solid as RA2 was -- but everything is starting to come together.

5. What do you like best about being a designer?

[Deiley, John] The thing that attracts me the most is the creativity you get to express. You run a dozen or so ideas through your head, flesh them out, and then put them in a game engine to come to life. You then see what does and does not work. You take things apart, put them back together again in different ways, and you learn. You then use what you learn to create again and again... I love that process. You never feel stagnant or that you're going nowhere in your job. And, you get to entertain others with your finished product. What more could you ask for.

"Utilizing a new unfolding story line style campaign, MechCommander 2 adds true line of sight combat variables to battle engagements, and also offers combat bonuses and penalties depending upon whether or not the player's units are at a higher or lower altitude than their enemies. The traditional fog of war that most RTS games adhere to has been removed in MechCommander 2, instead players will rely on scouts, sensors, and probes to determine enemy strength and location.

The graphics engine in MechCommander 2 is vastly improved versus its predecessor, and features missiles that arc along real-world ballistic trajectories to their targets as well as laser and PPC fire that crackles and gleams with raw energy when fired."

Looks pretty good, I am going to have to add this game to my christmas list. The preview is about 500 words and comes with 22 new screenshots. Read it here.

"Half Sim game and half SimCity game. It's not going to be like "The Sims" but you'll need to satisfy some sim's basic needs like looking for job and others. The player must assure that the families he controls (yes, it's more than one at a time) obtain their income to acomplish their essencial needs."

Solid single player experience, weapons are unique in each episode which gives a distinctive feel, overall it's actually a good and solid single player FPS if you don't mind outdated graphics.
Lows : Outdated graphics, multiplayer part of the game feels incomplete, a 56ker would have problems playing. Save germs and map loading in the middle of a level are annoying, no EAX or A3D support yet, feels like an outdated game overall.
Final score was 72 out of 100.

View new FF IX images here
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View new information regarding FFIX here

Here is a nice little quote from the preview describing the storyline for RA2:

"Romanov and his Alliance allies covertly plot to overthrow the Alliance. When a civil war erupts in Mexico, the Alliance moves in to stop it. But disguised by the cover afforded by that operation, Romanov brings in specially trained psychic troops and psychic beacons that not only disable the Allies nuclear defence and warning systems, but also start to forment unrest between the citizens. Why ? Like any good comic strip villian, Romanov wants complete and total world domination and will stop at nothing to get it."

Looking Glass Gone? What is going on with the world? Bill Gates is going to win the Humanitarian of the year award next.

Seriously, I personally am extremely sad to see this high quality house close it's doors. Thief was something new in the FPS genre, and it's a shame that sales weren't as good as they obviously needed to be. I don't think there's a software house out there that hasn't been in a close situation like that themselves. Raven is no stranger to barely making ends meet before we became a part of Activision.

After careful consideration, 3dfx has made the decision to bring back the Voodoo5 AGP products that have been shipped. 3dfx has a business model that allows us to maintain a limited number of direct customers, while still being able to maximize availability points to the end user.
This means that the boards we have shipped were sent to less than a half dozen distributors, who we maintain a very close working relationship with. We are bringing the boards back to determine if those boards exhibit the same problem. We believe that the overwhelming majority of those boards will test out fine. We are taking this step to minimize any consumer returns through our retailers & to ensure that the products we ship will be of the highest quality.

The game includes a total of 60 single-player missions and a choice of more than 40 different units to control with up to 200 in the field all at the same time. At first you can only choose to play one of the 2 sides, either the WarMonkeys or the Imperial Order, and later in the game when you beat the single-player using either of the two you could get the honor of playing the Mantai race. The game includes a tutorial which I recommend that you play first before heading on to battle. The tutorial includes the basics which teaches you to control your units and to get a hang on how to use the direct control mode to your units. Afterwards, taking on the single-player mission part of the game treats you to a detailed mission briefing. The game does not make use of gathering resources and building bases (resource management) instead after listening to the briefing you are allowed to access the unit interface wherein you buy vehicles and assign your troops unto what role they will take and what vehicle to use. And right then you can get on to battle. Remember to take great care of the troops you command for your troops will be handed over to the next mission, and as such these troops earn a higher rank based on their experiences. Units then becomes more agile, more accurate, etc. One of the complains I have regarding this game is the scaling they used. In order for them to provoke a sense of realism, the developers chose to make the size of your infantry tiny to make it look like they will fit in the vehicles they use. This made it worse in selecting your specialized unit, as you'll be having a hard time telling apart the different infantries you have during battle.. Another complain would be the unit design. The APC/Friendly Protector looks more like a shoebox than a vehicle.

The settings for the game are quite astonishing, in one of the Hawaii missions you have to go look for a treasure, after flying through a cave there is an English convoy which talks nasty to you, but they're all on a bridge, so if you shoot that bridge, they're out of the picture... for now that is...

There will be many more weapons besides the aforementioned flamethrower for B.J. to use as he battles the Nazi army. All of the game's weapons of destruction will be true to the World War II era, and will include lugers, grenades, rifles, and more. Agent Blazkowicz can even man larger, stationary guns and turrets. In the demo I played I got to take control of a stationary heavy machine gun behind a wall of sandbags and mow down a courtyard full of enemy troops. This was, of course, only after I had relieved its former owner by politely filling him with bullets. You have to be careful about firing upon enemies manning weapons that you want to comandeer, though, since the weapons can be broken and become worthless if you simply pitch a grenade at them.

>>Also.... is the DNF team going ot use all the latest UT patches??? like do u guess update your code base stuff??? because the new UT patch is out and it helps so much with crashes and such...

We may bring over bits and pieces, or fix some things ourselves, but we are never, ever patching to a full new version of UT again.

We had to patch to UT because it was a quantum leap over the stock Unreal codebase, but we are not patching to each and every full new version of UT. We simply have made too many changes and it takes too long.

George Broussard, 3D Realms

One thing i wana say is that as Daikatana is now out, it seems to really be getting some major shit, and i have to say that most of it is legit, as reports are coming in from all over with news that the full game is worse than the demo, which was terrible to start with..

Mechanical Frogs anyone?

Game Reviews:

Daikatana on Speedy3D and incite

Star Trek: Armada on GamePen

Star Wars: Force Commander on LatestUpdates.com

Triple Play 2001 on Operation Sports

Max Payne Preview on GameTarget

F1 World Grand Prix on GameTarget

Tachyon: The Fringe on GamesFirst and NeoSeeker

Hardware Reviews:

Intel Pentium III 933EB on FiringSquad and Sharky Extreme

3Dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP on GamersDepot

ELSA Gladiac GeForce 2 GTS on GotApex?

Aureal SQ2500 Sound Card on iXBT-Labs

Diamond MX 400 Sound Card on GamingIn3D

SOYO SY-7VCA Mobo on iXBT-Labs