Achtung Wolfenstein Screenshots

Thermodyne writes: "The sequel of the game that helped invent the fps is being developed and the first of the screenshots have been released here. The game is based on the Quake 3 engine, but seems to stray away from the original intent of the first game." I can't begin to count the number of hours I lost in wolf3d ... course, I hope it does stray from the original game: who wants to run around shooting dogs and finding hidden switches for 30 levels? The lighting in some of those screenshots is super impressive. (check out that flame thrower). Sadly, I think my fps days are past me. I played The Sims for the first time last week. What an amazing game.

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Rob Malda, always ahead of the curve:

[Wakko Warner]

I played The Sims for the first time last week. What an amazing game.

Yeah, that one's cool, but there's this new game coming out called "Chess" that I hear is *really* awesome. Anyone got a chance to play it yet?!

- A.P.

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* CmdrTaco is an idiot.

Inspiration?

[Lion-O]

Now why do I get this feeling that these people completely ran out of ideas and in order to get more money in start doing re-runs? The screenshots look nice, but are we really waiting for a game which basicly offers more of the same?

IMHO its a total shame that the whole game market seems to be totally out of inspiration these days. Sometimes you come across a title which offers a complete new setup (based on something allready these I guess) but in most cases its just more of the same. The last game I've bought (Oni) is IMO a good example; its a 3rd person 'fight / shoot 'm up' but offers quite some new options. Ever fought 3 man at the same time by disarming one poor bastard and shooting the rest with his weapon? I've never seen Lara Croft do that, to name just another 3rd person game and perfect example. IMO another game which just kept on going adding basicly nothing to gameplay, just nicer landscapes and some new moves, in order to get gain more money.

As I said; the screenshots looked nice. The game itself is a shame IMVHO. Why not put the effort and money into something new?

Where are the nazis???!!!

[phaze3000]

The screen shots show all these weird alien looking guys - where are the nazis? They look more like the goombas from the Super Mario Bros film than anything (except for the swastikas of course). I was looking forward to kicking some far-right butt...

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Re:Where are the nazis???!!!

[oddrune]

You missed the "Pictures" part of the site -- featuring nazi-dressed models with a whip.

How can anyone resist these two nazi's?

:-)

The first of the screenshots?!?

[James Foster]

Uhm... The first screenshots were released over a year ago.

More details about the game...

[Cyrix Haldir]

I run an italian gaming site, and some time ago we interviewed Jonathan Knight from Return to casle wolfenstein dev. team... he gave us some details, maybe you are interested in them :)

The interview is available in english and italian.

Hope you enjoy it...

Re:It's sad, really

[ACK!!]

Wait a second what about Half-Life? Listen it is an old game but I am personally VERY disappointed that other game companies did not take the hint and start creating FPS games with more depth and storyline treatments. Come on the idea of looking through the eyes of a character in a game and running in first person through an action sceneriao is wonderful.

I think the industry has hit a rut and I agree with that but the possibilities are endless. I think the comparison is close to Sci-Fi literature which has the most possibility of brilliant ideas but constantly gets mired down in crappy output from publishers wanting to make another space opera and the quick buck.

I don't like those mutants and monsters...

[antdude]

[begin rant] I like realistic characters like in the original Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, and the 2D versions. The game doesn't feel like Wolfenstein without those infamous Nazi soldiers, commanders, etc. Do we really needs mutants, zombies, robots, monsters, etc.? To think about that, I think this game will have strange weapons as well. :(

I don't think I will want this game. [end of rant]

The Sims on Linux

[SimHacker]

I ported The Sims to Linux months ago, at the beginning of last summer, but Loki took ages to answer my email, and just didn't seem to be interested... Go figure. Anybody know what's up with them these days?

Maxis was interested though, because the next vewrsion of The Sims Online will run on a Linux server. So now I'm working on optimizing it to run the multi player server side of the game on Linux without any graphics.

If Loki had ever gotten their act together, then The Sims for Linux could have been published a while ago. I busted my ass and did a lot of work on my own time to try to make it happen, but Maxis isn't interested in publishing games on Linux, and I can't publish it all by myself. Are there any companies out there besides Loki who are interested in porting The Sims Online client to Linux? Does anyone want to start a new Linux game company?

I've already done most of the hard work (it takes 2 hours to compile), and it'll be a slam dunk top seller. I hope to publish it soon after the Windows version is released, but I've totally given up on Loki.

Back in 1992, I ported SimCity Classic to Unix, and added multi player capability, multiple views, chat, shared whiteboard, pie menus, and a bunch of other features. A year or so ago, I ported it to Linux and optimized it so it runs at least 17 years a second on my 500 mhz laptop, or more than a million years in less than a day. SimCity Classic runs so fast, it's a twitch game! And only on Linux. I hope to publish that as soon as I can hammer out a new contract with Maxis.

-Don

Re:This simply glorifies Naziism and Violence.

[Symbiosis]

Hmm... Columbing doesn't seem to ring a bell... I'll do a search online and get back to you on that one ;-)

Now, Waco, I remember that one... just one thing... this faulty memory of mine... I don't remember anyone placing the blame for Waco on the video game industry of that time... rather than Wolfenstein, I'd say part of the violence at Waco was learned through, oh, I dunno, military/SWAT/etc. training... just a guess.... ;-)

/me sits back and waits for cynicism levels to subside...

Ok, sorry about that, just had to get that out of my system... :-)