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Project Offset FPS Amazes

Posted by Zonk on from the bring-the-shiny dept.

Spaceman40 wrote to mention a post up on Joystiq about a beautiful next-gen FPS called Project Offset. From the article: "Doom 3 engine? Was nice knowing you. UT? Old news. Source? Over there. We'll call you if we need you. You can all stand back, though. There's a new king on the way to town. Project Offset is a new first person shooter, and the developer is showing off what their new graphics engine can do. The movies are not pre-rendered. The developer says they're all real time...The demo looks amazing! Videos are available at the official site.'"

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  1. so... by Anm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First, let me say that I respect these guys and their prior work in Savage, and it sounds like they have a good architecture for a realtime graphics engine. That said, I don't see much invovative work here compared to other unreleased engines. Unreal 3 supports the HDR and normal mapping described on their website. The website also doesn't mention anything about physics or scripting, but it doesn't mean it isn't there. While scripting can be tacked on relatively easily, I have heard from other game developers that first rate physics engines like Havok have specific unusual requirements to maximize the use of vector processing instructions. And one of the bigger questions in future game enginge design I don't see being address is for multicore processing. Lastly, I don't believe these guys have any background on consoles.

    Nonetheless, I'm rooting for their success, even if its a niche or lesser market.

    Anm

  2. S2 guys = great game by Tom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Three of the guys are from S2, the small company that made Savage.

    For me, that means 2 things:

    One, it's going to be a great game. Savage was the first FPS game in years that I really enjoyed.

    Two, there is a fair chance that it'll be available for Linux, as they already have experience with Savage, and AFAIK they found out there that Linux users give more and higher quality feedback.

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  3. Single Player? Rant. by dbhankins · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Having wasted my time checking out Savage, and looking at the video, it's time to rant:

    Why is it that so many people who put out multiplayer-only games fail to mention it anywhere in their game descriptions, websites, etc? There are those of us who prefer single player games.

    It took quite a bit of looking at reviews of Savage and reading between the lines to figure out that it has no single-player component.

    Since the game devs seem to think that MP games are the only kind that count, I'll have to assume that "Project Offset" is also MP-only. Too bad. A single-player fantasy FPS with pretty graphics might have attracted my gaming dollars.

    Yeah, I bought Doom3 for the graphics engine as much as anything. And enjoyed it. So sue me.