• 8May 06

  Mortal Kombat: Armageddon 1

  After the new previews and demos, I decided to write about my thoughts.

  The first thing about the game is the kool look of Reiko in action. He is really kooler now. Older and darker. The old characters like Scorpion and Sub-zero look nice yet Sub-zero looks like Stryker's alt.

  In the demo it looks like big guys like Shao Kahn kan't be thrown into traps yet they bounce easily in the air.

  In the end of KAF section they when they're showing move asigning to kustom fighter, a mystic gray character is shown and he's really awesome IMO. Later another similiar fighter is shown who looks to be the gray one's alt. Is a a new kombatant or just a kustom example? I hope he's for real and in the roster.

  There was no new mention of Konquest and in the preview its said that there are 2 brothers. One good and one evil. Kould this mean for 2 different Konquest characters?

  Anyway Armageddon is looking real sweet though they new to work more on effects and kamera.

  Kan't wait till ARMAGEDDON.

  • Posted May 8, 2006 2:09 pm GMT
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• 25Apr 06

  3 new PS3 tech demos I saw

   2 PS3 tech demos new atleast to me. I saw 2 PS3 tech demos at my work ( I work in a local game-magazine) and thought sharing them wouldn't hurt. They were same as demos shown in TGS I think but I hadn't seen them:

  1. A real-time demo of MotorStorm which was very technical yet awesome. The demo had actually no racing. Instead it had as single buggie looking car wonder around, araising dust and showing differenct effects. The particle effects and car smoke were great but not revolutionary. The dynamics and car physics were great and realistic. Perhaps the most important and crazy looking thing about this demo was the car decal/wheel trace effects which were INCREDIBLE. At first I thoght the ground was just made of shaders and was 2D. I thought the effects and wheel trails were 2D and texture but WAIT... WTF. They were fully 3D!!! After the car wondered around for a minute, it returned to starting position and move on its previous tracks/wheel traces. Each time the car wheel arrived on a trail/decal, the car would react perfectly. The holes and effects on the ground were fully 3D and not pre-created (like F.E.A.R or Red Faction).

  2. A real-time demo which seemed to be Heavenly Sword. First there was a desert and then they added a soldier. Then like the (in)famous floating ducks demo, they added hundreds of soldiers. The first cool thing is that while they were added in a copy-paste manner, they're animations and movements while standing was not mass-copy (Dynasty Warriors). Then they add and force explosion/impact effect (Only force, without gas or explosion smoke/fire). This action shows games great physics  and how unique they all fly in the sky. The surprize here was the colse reactions. One soldier falls near another guy standing in front of camera. The fallen one grabs the other guy's leg and makes him slip in a cool and realistic manner.

  3. I'm not sure about game of the 3rd demo. It had a still normal car. It was great looking but nothing we haven't seen. Then someone starts shooting it with a machine gun. The bullet effects on the car are truly amazing and each and every part of car is fully created and completely reacting to gun shots(Even the SMALLEST ones). The demo continues with the shooter destroying the car and wrecking it. It would be crazy to have this in a video game.

  I hope they bring more of these Pre-E3 demos so we can know what to expect there. Since I had not seen these earlier I thought sharing my experience with you friends wouldn't be bad.

  • Posted Apr 25, 2006 6:00 pm GMT
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• 8Apr 06

  Missing Morrowind...

  OK, Oblivion is a great game. Maybe the best in years but... I miss the cheesy Dunmer, their strange traditions and House rules. I miss cults and the prophecy. I miss Vivec City and Vivec himself. I miss dwarven mines and lore. I miss citys in Vvardenfell, their strange but kool design. I miss house harsh weather. I miss The Temple and Ordinators. I miss lord Nerever...

  I miss Dagoth Ur and I miss... MORROWIND.

  • Posted Apr 8, 2006 1:20 am GMT
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