[Bauul]

<returns from multiple hour search>

Well, it all looks quite interesting! Here are some nuggets:

• The game is actually the second game id started after Doom 3, they started one called 'Darkness', but then decided they actually fancied a change from dark and dingy, so have done light and airy instead.
• The game engine, idTech 5, is stupidly verstile. For one, it's exactly the same on PC, 360 and PS3, to the extent there's no need to port anything over, the engine just works on the different platforms. Also, it can all be edited in real time, and is desgined so the artist, not the developer, has control over how the game comes out, the outcome is limited really only by the talent of the artist. Oh and it's all unique texturing, not just across the landscape but everywhere, and thus textures alone are, uncompressed, 20gigs +
• It comes on 2 DVDs! First game to require that much space. Whilst PS3 owners are ok, it'll be intreguing to see how it works with a 360,
• The game itself is a pretty open ended, sandbox style game, about 50/50 driving and shooting, and is part adventure, part fps, set in a long time gone post apocolyptic world. The driving element is also apparently as developed as the fps, and is proper physics based, think Halo but better.
• Multiplayer wise, no definitve word yet, but it will feature extensive co-op, and stuff like riding shotgun in the cars, which is a lovely change from most modern fps games.
• It's launching 'when it's done' (unsurprisingly)