Dark Messiah

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I like it very much.

Yes, me too.

Been looking forward to it since it was first announced. Everything I've seen of it looks promising

I could worked on it if i hadn't my studies

How long you got left to go with your studies koko?

1 year reno, (i hope so)

5 months =/

The source engine never looked so good...

When i looked at the images, my only thoughts were like "Brutal utilisation of Cubemaps/Specmaps/Normalmaps/Vertex-Lighting"

Wfr, Sindwiller

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I like!

meh, almost all of those are bullshots, and the few that actually show gameplay have pretty disappointing visuals.

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meh, almost all of those are bullshots, and the few that actually show gameplay have pretty disappointing visuals.

they have some gameplay movies too...did you get a chance to watch them? looks much more compelling then the screenshots of characters etc.

Looks good.

But I'd rather have a Hexen 3

Perhaps KFS could pull some strings at Raven

First thing I thought was: "first person melee combat" and then I kind of switched off.

Quote from Taylor

First thing I thought was: "first person melee combat" and then I kind of switched off.

What's wrong with that?

I think Riddick and Condemned are both great games with great 1st person melee combat action. It's unusual but it works.

Breakdown on the Xbox, now THERE was a game focused on FPS melee combat Lots of moves and a nicely handled first person viewpoint at all times (including the first ever first person spewing and bungee jumping scenes unless I'm mistaken!) Pity it was a bit crap overall, but it certainly had its moments, and given it was pretty much the first of the wave of FPS melee games it deserves recognition.

It works really well in Oblivion too. When you hit someone, it feels really, uh... "visceral" - plus, there's still plenty of strategy involved with movement and timing your attacks. Anyway, I'm looking forward to this, especially since the developers are big fans of Thief and System Shock.

you got to bungee jump in goldeneye on the n64 machine, after completing the first mission =) "wohoo! down the dam!"

I built some of the maps for the online multiplayer part of this title while working as a level designer at Kuju. It was a great fun title to work on and although the game suffers a little from the same 1st person melee combat problems seen in every title in this genre since the beginning of time, I think it handles them better than most have done. I can only speak for the multiplayer aspect though, as I had nothing to do with the single player.

Very true nico, forgot about that one! Breakdown's is rather cooler though - as I remember it (might not be accurate!) you get blown off a roof by an explosion caused by a helicopter shooting missiles at you, and as you fall, your female companion dives off the roof with a cord attached and grabs you. Breakdown had some seriously awesome moments to it, but the sad truth was that the bulk of the gameplay was kinda poor. Still, underrated and underappreciated game - just one of many cool Xbox exclusives that people completely overlook when they say the console only has PC ports or cross platform titles.