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Black FPS Preview
The First Person Shooter that had everyone abuzz at this year's E3 was the simply titled 'Black'. Eurogamer has a piece on the upcoming console-based action game, where it's come from, and where it's going. From the article: "But one thing Ward freely admits is that Black distills the team's best memories of their favourite movies. In fact, the last time out we got a sneak peak at the storyboarding process down at Criterion's HQ, each of the game's levels were explicitly designed to play out like your best memories of the best action sequences they could think of. Not a bad basis for an action game, you might reason."
The main impression I got from looking at the screenshots is "Wow those weapons look nice. I wish I could see what the actual game looks like, though." None of the images seemed to provide a clear view of what the weapons or environments look like. Not terribly useful for a preview.
When you shoot anything it explodes or reacts. the entire level is "interactive" it will have a "story" around the engine that does that. thats it.
On a curious note: PDZero for x360 suposedly does exactly the same thing.
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I break stuff in real life all the time. It's really cool!
Car breaks down - Dose it with gasoline and send it pinballing down a cliff with flames dancing to the sweet night music of destruction. Bump my head on a my basements low doorway - let the sledgehammer rain down wood splinters and chunks of drywall until I have enough headroom. Gumball machine steals my quarter - crowbar it into flying shards of glass and hundreds of colorful bouncing gumballs.
I'm telling you there's no limit to the number of life's problems that can be solved by breaking stuff. I already have all the particle effects, realistic physics, and CD quality audio I'll ever need.