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CardJoe · 3rd May 2007, 10:41

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/05...unce_Fracture/

Bindibadgi · 3rd May 2007, 11:36

Tessellation at its best?

Tomm · 3rd May 2007, 11:39

Pfft, Red Faction on the PS2 was released ages ago and that had 'terrain deformation' or whatever you wanna call it. It's still cool though.

DXR_13KE · 3rd May 2007, 12:38

i also remembered red faction, especially red faction 2 with this cybernetically enhanced humans thing.

Veles · 3rd May 2007, 13:17

Bah, I was hoping it would be something original, i.e. not another FPS. I want monkey island damnit!

Snaek · 3rd May 2007, 13:23

I've always liked the idea of terrain deformation, but I felt it was too limited in the Red Faction games, especially the second one. Though that was probably because of hardware limitations. This game looks interesting, I'll have to keep my eye on it.

Paradigm Shifter · 3rd May 2007, 15:06

I dunno, I want a sequel to X-Wing Alliance.

Bladestorm · 3rd May 2007, 15:09

I was going to say I hope they get the scale right, since I've never been able to take seriously most fps about a "war" since planetside when on a good day you might have 200 players fighting over a base, with tanks, artillery, fighters, bombers involved, as well as desperate stands at sub-bases on the periphery with either the defenders trying to hold on or retake a tower that had just been lost to deny the enemy easy reinforcements. But then I realized "console game" and that its coming out on 360 and PS3 .. so I don't really care ;p plus its not like either is going to have the memory to really do scale justice I suspect.

CardJoe · 3rd May 2007, 15:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Veles

Bah, I was hoping it would be something original, i.e. not another FPS. I want monkey island damnit!

Veles for teh win!

Javerh · 3rd May 2007, 16:59

Nethack had terrain deformation...

CardJoe · 3rd May 2007, 17:06

Nethack had everything. Best death in nethack btw:

"You are carrying too much, you fall down the stairs. You land on your sword. The sword was poisoned. There is a cockatrice here. The cockatrice turns you to stone."

Breach · 3rd May 2007, 18:07

Sounds like a refreshing departure from their typical games, which I think in the past have been pretty good themselves. Curious to see what comes out on the other side

webbyman · 3rd May 2007, 21:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Veles

Bah, I was hoping it would be something original, i.e. not another FPS. I want monkey island damnit!

pffffft

monkey island was amazing!

CardJoe · 4th May 2007, 09:14

Doesn't look too bad

http://kotaku.com/gaming/if-the-eart...ler-257492.php

DougEdey · 4th May 2007, 09:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by CardJoe

Doesn't look too bad

http://kotaku.com/gaming/if-the-eart...ler-257492.php

I think I just saw every single law of physics broken

Tyinsar · 8th May 2007, 00:58

Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, ... were great but I'd also be quite happy with another title in the Knights of the Old Republic series.

Otherwise, Bah, good old Scorched Earth (best Artillery variant ever

, even better than the best 3D version) had terrain deformation as an almost essential part of the game. ah, the memories

Bauul · 8th May 2007, 13:28

Ah it looks like fun enough. Though to be honest real land scape deformation I've yet to see. What I'm waiting for is a situation where blowing a hole in one side of a rock arch will cause the whole arch to fall over as a native part of the physics engine, and no-one's come close to doing that yet. Though I imagine given the insane amount of processing required to do that in real time we'll need to wait for the next generation of physics cards to come out.

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Bladestorm Hypermodder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 682	I was going to say I hope they get the scale right, since I've never been able to take seriously most fps about a "war" since planetside when on a good day you might have 200 players fighting over a base, with tanks, artillery, fighters, bombers involved, as well as desperate stands at sub-bases on the periphery with either the defenders trying to hold on or retake a tower that had just been lost to deny the enemy easy reinforcements. But then I realized "console game" and that its coming out on 360 and PS3 .. so I don't really care ;p plus its not like either is going to have the memory to really do scale justice I suspect. __________________ Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 250x10 (1.475v) \| EVGA GTX 260 55nm SSC \| A8N-SLI Premium \| 2x(4GB) Corsair Twinx2048-PC3200C2 \| Asus Xonar DX \| Antec truepower 550w \| Akasa Eclipse-62 DDC12VPlus1, DD TDX, 3/8 tygon r3603 tubing, PA120.2, DD double floppy bay res

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Tyinsar 6 screens / 1 card Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: AB.CA Posts: 2,005	Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, ... were great but I'd also be quite happy with another title in the Knights of the Old Republic series. Otherwise, Bah, good old Scorched Earth (best Artillery variant ever , even better than the best 3D version) had terrain deformation as an almost essential part of the game. ah, the memories __________________ It's not about how life treats you, it's about how you treat life.

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Bauul Sir Bongaminge Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Godalming, near Guildford Posts: 1,553	Ah it looks like fun enough. Though to be honest real land scape deformation I've yet to see. What I'm waiting for is a situation where blowing a hole in one side of a rock arch will cause the whole arch to fall over as a native part of the physics engine, and no-one's come close to doing that yet. Though I imagine given the insane amount of processing required to do that in real time we'll need to wait for the next generation of physics cards to come out.