News Fabtastic fragathon brought to you in vivid 3D

More mrhaz mumblings, courtesy of the Inq. This time he's spouting on about a flash based 3D fragfest that aledgedly has graphics on par with UT2K3. Can it be true, or is it a figment of Wil's over taxed brain?

Read on:

WHILE PLODDING our course down the information superhighway, we came across something that was so funky we simply had to show it to you.

Most Flash games on the net are simple affairs, with cursor control and some gawkish graphics. Not this one. Fancy a quick online fragathon in a fully rendered 3D engine against bots with decent AI?

Look no further. Rasterwerks has the most incredible fully-3D FPS available to play online. The geeks and geekettes have written it in Flash and it provides visuals on par with Unreal Tournament 2003.

It's incredibly easy to spend half an hour getting absorbed in this, especially if you can't load any other titles onto your working machine. We shall be keeping a close eye on Rasterwerks to see what else they come up with.

L'inquage you will need to follow, should you wish to see Flash generated gibs.

[EDIT] And believe me, you want to check it out. This is seriously impressive stuff, when you consider it's all in flash

 

Whoa mama! Played it for about 2 minutes here at college before beeing told to stop, but just ingly brilliant.

Edit - P4 3.2, 16mb video, 256mb RAM.
- H.

 

Shame its not been made in Flash but Shockwave and thats been able to do 3D for years

 

Pah.

Regardless, I still think it's pretty impressive even if it is SW rather than flash. SW may have been able to do 3D for ages, but so impressively? I dunno - I'm not that knowledgeable in the field. Kevo?

 

holy monkey ***** that's impressive for flash....

 

Dont play it on a P3 celeron with 128meg of ram, slideshow is an optimal guess. Looks good though, impressive for totally internet based 3d.

 

That's bloomin' impressive. Ok so shockwave has been able to "do" 3D for a while, but not seen anything quite so advanced before.

Check out the "settings" section - increase bots, difficulty, CTF and network settings

Anyone set up a proper multiplayer game on it?

 

Ermmmm, Athlon XP-M @ 2.2GHz, Radeon X800 Pro, 1Gb PC3200.... 5FPS?!?!?!

AH

 

Oh it's impressive execution. And Shockwave gets better and better every year (unlike Flash)...

 

ran quite well on my gf3 and its a lot of fun but it managed to reboot my computer

 

V strange, my 2500+, FX5200 with 512mbPC3200 runs it dead smooth...

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My sig specs produced a silky smooth frame rate however there is a little mouse lag especically with large, quick moves. Very impressive!

 

funk!!! thats very impressive. played 2 round pwning the bot

 

Hmm, yes there really is a huge difference between Flash and Shockwave. Shockwave supports hardware acceleration for cripes' sake! When I first read that news item I thought back to a Flash 3D engine I wrote while I was unemployed. It did (does, if I can find it) about 1,000 single-textured polys per second on an average P3 running 512x384, and I thought I was the hottest Flash coder around for writing it. Then I read the article and I thought I'd been seriously outclassed

Nezuji

 

Let's see your top scores!

Runs fine on my GeForce 4 MX440, XP1700, 512RAM Took an age to download though but 56k does that...

- H.

 

It is quite amazing

ran fine on this 1.4 p4 with onboard video (work pc)

 

Someone needs to optimize - i run it on here, almost exactly the same spec, and it's definately perfectly smooth.

 

Wow! that is amazing!

 

But under the video settings, under renderer it says DirectX 7. . .

Still the best fully on-line FPS I've played. . . Only problem is the elevators are too loud and slow, you can tell when the enemy is approaching.

L J