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E3 - John Romero's Newest FPS, Via N-Gage
It seems that Nokia's 'mobile game deck', the N-Gage has lured John Romero and his Monkeystone Games posse back from reliving their 2D shareware glory days with Hyperspace Delivery Boy, and onto his 3D shareware FPS glory days, with their own adaptation of THQ's first-person shooter Red Faction. Here are links to the new Red Faction N-Gage trailer in MPEG-4 and Quicktime.Update: 05/13 15:58 GMT by H : We had a story on N-Gage a couple months back.
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http://www.cube-europe.com/movies/mariokart2.wmv
sorry about the format.
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what article? it's a bunch of links to different web sites.
if you're referring to the post, it says clearly "with their own adaptation of THQ's first-person shooter Red Faction"
seems pretty clear to me.
Mike
Since it takes /. about a week to catch up (Really Old News For Nerds, Stuff that mattered last week) how about the newly announced Sony handheld thingy?
That would be software for Microsoft's iLoo
is in fact NOT MP4 (or its some bastardization thereof), but is in truth some form of ASF that my OS X Windows Media Player can't handle.
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Having just skimmed the bit about the N-gage.. It is a phone.. with a small gameboy-like device built into it. or possible a hand held gameconsolle with a phone inside - same difference.
So, either some bastard will call me just as I'm about to beat the highscore... or the batteries will be dead from me playing to much games, so I'll miss that vital call. Neitehr sounds like a deal to me.
I may be old skool here, but I much prefer my handheld game to be seperate from my phone, and both to be seperate from my PDA (even thought I do play some games on the later). That way, I'll never miss my calls or have to end my game to take the phone.. and as every old skool nerd knows; the more gadgets, the better. Still, I can see how this may go down well with those who gets a device just because it is new and thus cool - and it looks pretty neat too. Have anyone here one of these and can give some info on how it is in actuall use?
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I don't plan on giving John Romero any of my money.
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He told me, via ads in PC Gamer, to "Suck it down"
No, Mr. Romero, *you* suck it down.
But this looks awful.
Not since Rise of the Triad on a 386 have I seen such a terrible resolution and absolute mess of pixels.
Did you see the shot where you looked down the hall and it was all a blur of brown and green/blue? Yeah, that's the whole game for you. "Did that blob move? Shoot it!"
And deathmatch? Don't make me laugh.
What little gameplay this will provide will be VERY SMALL roomed deathmatch with awful looking weapons on a very small screen.
I'm all for FPS on N-Gage if it can look better than this. And hell, if you're going to go, why not just port Doom 2? Its still a great game and you won't have to make a fool of yourself trying to make it look "as good" as the original.
I say go for fighting games on the N-Gage. Something like Samurai Showdown, which has an active zoom-out feature, would work great because of the screen width limitation.
The phone should've been longer, or the resolution should've been better, because this "hype" trailer just makes me glad I haven't through twice about buying an N-Gage.
Good job Romero! Once again you've underwhelmed everyone.
I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet, but Romero has recently announced at E3 that Daikatana's source code will be released in 3 weeks. As you can imagine, everyone is very excited, because we can bring the advanced AI "buddy bots" from Daikatana to our favorite games, like Half Life, or maybe even the upcoming Doom3. Nothing will be better than having Superfly Johnson behind you helping you frag a cyberdemon.
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Earth to Romero--we've moved on.
The N-Gage hasn't been released yet, but it has the same processor, OS, screen resolution and basic buttons as the 3650/7650. The main differences will be:
1. Uses removable media cards for games
2. Buttons are laid out like a handheld game system
I have played some games on my Nokia 3650 and it is a very capable gaming platform. The battery lasts for several hours while gameplaying. The screen is bright and clear, and the controls are reasonable if not exceptional.
If you want a perfect device for every possible function then more power to you. I found that my Palm PDA stayed in my bag because it was too large to carry in my pocket. I would rather have a slightly less functional device that I can (and do) carry with me all the time. I don't care for the idea of a batbelt for a separate phone, portable game machine, PDA, camera, etc.
Much bigger news is the story that Sony will be releasing a portable to compete with Nintendo's Game Boy series. They are calling it the PSP (PlayStation Portable) and it should have graphical quality akin go to the PS1. No firm release date but they said 'late next year' (why the freaking wait!?!?!?).
To oust Nintendo, they better allow it to play PS1 games though it apparently uses a proprietary media format.
smd4985
good romero-as-hot-chick jokes:
here, here, here
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Defiance was revealed at the last minute along with Eidos other offerings.
There's some other cool-looking products at this year's E3, but I know what *I'm* pre-ordering as soon as it's available =).
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman