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Red Orchestra Team Interviewed

Posted by Zonk on from the nice-job-gentlemen dept.

obchrisj writes "As reported by Slashdot on Monday, Red Orchestra, the popular UT2004 mod, won the grand prize (A full Unreal engine license and $50,000) in the Make Something Unreal Contest. FileFront had a chance to sit down and chat with the team members of the popular modification to discuss their multiple-award winning success." From the article: "You could call it a first person shooter but I feel doing so is unfairly categorizing Red Orchestra as yet another WWII shooter. Our main focus with Red Orchestra is realism, we want the gamer to actually feel the tension and fear of being a soldier fighting for his country and livelihood during the war. With our focus on realism you won't find any crosshairs to aim with, or health packs to heal yourself." Update: 01/26 21:34 GMT by Z : Fixed bad link.

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  1. But you need crosshairs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's a flat, 2D area that you're trying to picture as 3D space. So unlike in the real world, you would have a lot of trouble trying to picture where your shot would land.

    This is why games that even lean towards realism (America's Army, Rainbow Six games) include it.

    Besides, they're saying crosshairs are unrealistic in a game where everyone knows how to drive a tank and there's a minimap showing your objective? /me shrugs

    1. Re:But you need crosshairs... by Negative9 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not everyone can drive a tank, you have to pick a specific class in order to use one. Also the "iron sights" system they use for aiming works pretty well (you use the actual sights on the gun model to aim rather than floating crosshairs). Try playing the game instead of talking out of your ass...

  2. Another Interview by TychoCelchuuu · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As long as we're posting interviews of mod teams for no apparent reason, there's another one at Modfiles.org

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    1. Re:Another Interview by Dr.Opveter · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You did read the part where it says they just won the grand prize (A full Unreal engine license and $50,000) in the Make Something Unreal Contest. right?

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