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Mess up in a Nipon Shoot-'Em-Up and you've blown it, especially since most of the games are focused towards high scores rather than completion - you generally get infinite continues and can 'finish' on your first go. If you haven't played a scoring-based game for a while, I can't even remember the last big PC game where scoring points was even recorded, never mind being the main objective , you'll probably be amazed at how compelling it is.
We've all become soft, forgotten the concept of being punished for failure in skill. These games are addictive in a way that simply hasn't been seen on the PC for years, where the sheer surprise of being told your game is over after 45 seconds sees you stabbing furiously at the Start button over and over again. We don't even have the room here to start telling you about the best games, or the companies like the fantastically named TXvinkle Soft who set so many of the benchmarks that others follow.
The best thing you can do is head to the address at the end of the feature and just start downloading. Though we've scattered a few screenshots of some of the more excellent games around to gel you started. Most of these games pack themselves into no more than 5Mb, so you've really got no excuse. Unless, that is. O Stamt Caliber Revival Edition O Tliere's a sizeable sub-genre of 3D shooters too, like Kamul.
Mark Hili qoes flatlining to find out A few months ago there was a report from Singapore, where a year-old Counler-Strike player took out a knife during a network game and stabbed a fellow player.
The reason? The other player had just killed him within the game using a virtual knife. This may be an extreme example, but as gamers, we're spending more time leading alternate lives, becoming characters in virtual worlds. And where there is life, there must also be death, the ultimate event. Philosophies and religions have been created over the ages to explain it and to comfort us about it, but could it be that we're unconsciously internalising game deaths as a way of coping with the real thing?
I'm not saying that avid Quake players think that if they're hit by a bus in the street then they'll instantly respawn on the other side of the pavement holding only a basic machine gun. That would be like You cant escape the Grim Reaper. Life And Death, crying out for an update, f.
But, in an increasingly secular age, it could well be that games are replacing religion in providing reassurance that death is not the end. This isn't as far-fetched as it may at first seem. But, in a way, it's mattered ever since videogames were invented. Just as Bill Murray went a little further each day with Andie McDowell until he learned how to woo her, gamers quicksave every time they turn a corner or open a door. If the enemy surprises you from the ceiling and tears you to bits, you quickload and go in next time with guns pointing skywards.
Think of the world spinning to a floor point of view in Half-Life as you hear your bones crunch and see the scattered remains of skull and brain slop the walls. What about the great tunnel of light?
When you played Space Invaders you knew you could afford to die twice before total oblivion loomed. But now that games are more sophisticated and can't make you start at the very begirming every rime you die, they need to offer other solutions.
The brilliant Planescape: Tonnent gives you an immortal character. The Namele,ss One, who reappears every rime he's struck down, even when all he wants is to end his. This is the Groundhog Day approach tt death. No matter how many times you get things wrong - so wrong, in fact, that you die - you can come back and give it another shot, wiser for the experience.
Stanley Kubrick, defending The Shining against allegations thai it was dark and depressive, said that any supernatural film was by nature optimistic and uplifting, because ghosts are evidence that there is something after death. The same could be said of any game in which death does not hold any particular finality. Though when you think about it, it seems strange that games haven't tapped into this more. Think of the possibilities. Peeking in the girls' locker- rooms, haunting people you didn't like, having 'poltergeist [antrums or, erm, peeking in girls' locker- rooms.
Or how about a game version of Randall and Hopkirk Deceased? Simple, really. Several games have toyed with this idea, though none have satisfactorily explored the myriad gameplay possibilities. That said, there are two games currently in development based on being a ghost or ghosts.
But it's not all reassuring. Even the atheistic vision of death finds its place in a popular Coumer-Strike opfion, designed to stop the deceased from cheating. In this mode, whenever you die the screen goes black for the rest of the round. A stray bullet condemns you to utter oblivion, with no appeal to concepts of limbo, purgatory or afterlife.
And that's something we can all relate to. But what we have here isn't a replacement for religion - which provides the total reassurance that death is not the end - but a fantasy of death.
You jump into a game, assume a role whether it's an antiquated floating spaceship or a sophisticated RPG character and you can enjoy the brief period of time when losing a life doesn't mean total annihilation. It's about momentary pleasure, not some transcendental realisation. You could argue that the vast - for a computer game anyway - freedom that Deus Kx offers could help you to be a more moral person because you can act out different actions to see their consequences. If games ever become advanced enough lo produce enemy Al so realistic, even to the point of being sentient, that we feel morally obliged not to pull the trigger, we could have a problem.
For the moment though, let's enjoy death while we can. And try iiot to hurt the people you play Counter- Strike against. In Tact, we qujio lllus It. And IMnli how much you'd save on Hfeinsurafice. Many peopiedont see the poiMi of cheating tn games. It's a Mi Mte fixing the cants hi a game of Solttaire. Independent LJtieration Army, ami can utillsi! Iraifiiiui ards tin ixili. Hi; wi;pl: "I'm wei y conci;ined ahoiit Hie safety ol llio crew, of me and Aiujelina, and eveiyone i;lsi:.
It soiiielliiii[ happtins and things t t! For those who weren't paying attention, Red HammermW give you the chance to play the other side of the hostilities as you step into ttie shoes of comrade Dimitri Lukin, a disgraced Spetsnaz officer attempting to regain his rank. The new campaign, as seen in these new screens, clocks in at a hefty 20 new missions, along with new cut-scenes, Russian-accents and whatnot.
The upgrade pack includes the new campaign, all the previously downloadable upgrades and a copy of the Operation FlashpointPr'ma Strategy Guide.
The Gold Edition contains the latest patched up version of the full game, Red Hammer, and the strategy book thingy. Sounds reasonable. But is it really ctioice, comrades, or just the illusion of choice? Q Tennis so real, you can almost smeU the strawtwrrles Strawberry-munchers will be jumping the net with ttie news that the brilliant Virtua Tennis is on its way, although with Virtua Tennis 2out in the arcades and on the Dreamcast we've got ttie right to feel ever so slightly cheated as well.
The other release of note is Crazy Taxi, the riotous driving game based on earning fares by transporting passengers to their rightful destinations on time, a concept that is studiously ignored by real-life cabbies all across London. With the Dreamcast now officially dead and buried, and Sega concentrating on what it does best making great games , we can only hope that if these two titles are a success it might convert other arcade classics in a more timely fashion.
Looking past the surface of Another War This game from Polish developer Mirage Interactive has slipped by us unnoticed until now, not surprising considering it's an unassuming little isometric RPG aimed at a casual jiiaming audience, featuring lacklustre graphics and supported by a fairly shabby homepage.
On closer inspection, however, it mayjust hold a measure of charm, as it is hoping to offer humour, complex character development and witty cross- textual references. The plot would have you taking the role of a mercenary and adventurer trapped in occupied Eurofw, trying to save an old buddy from the Nazi regime and getting caught up in secret military projects.
The slated release date is only weeks away, and if it actually comes off we'll have a review to you before you know it. However, at this stage an Easter release seems more likely. Though the premise Is to get all the characters from the Rayman universe together and let tiiem race and battle each other, Ubi Soft have thankfully not gone down the "Super Rayman Karl' path, opting instead for an intense platform-tuelled game involving njnning, jumping, flying, shooting and trap-setting.
Eight existing characters such as Globox, Ly, the fairy and Rayman himself will be present, with several more to be unlocked, and the game will take place in 1 2 rich cartoon environments lifted straight from Rayman 2. Each character will be endowed with skills and agility equal to Rayman, meaning plenty of sliding, climbing, helicopter jumps and shooting of lums.
We'll bring you a full review next month. There's nothing as satisfying as fragging somebody in the same room as you and hearing them curse, screaming obscenities as they try to track you down. Of course, when you're on the receiving end waiting to re-spawn, that's when you suddenly realise that you've been awake for 63 hours non-stop, you haven't eaten and you've relieved yourself In your trousers.
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H we don't consider any of the letters to be worthy we'll just keep them for oursehres. Using the GameVolce, you can communicate with other players online ami give yourself a massive advantage over the Luddites who have to slop and type Instructions. Well I have and the new site design means that 1 can check out all my console game news without leaving the hallowed grounds of the PC ZONE arena. I do have one complaint, though. Tim White O Consider it done - we now have our very own forum.
PC-exclusive site back again! Gavin Hay O Pretty soon you'll be able to choose from a load of custom skins, which means you'll be able to make the ZONE site look how you want it. I do love you guys but I'm also eternally jealous of the fact that you get paid to play games and it is good to see that in spite of having the best jobs in the world you have to get down and dirty every now and again. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, check out Steve's mug in the re- enactment special.
I haven't seen anyone look as miserable in my life. Mind you. Just what is that creepy woman in red smiling about and why is Steve using his shield to prevent a rearguard action?
Are the events connected? John Harding O You won't be pleased to hear that to make up for the trauma we sent him to a strip club with Jimmy White this month. Check out this month's Reality Check on page for the details. Yeah right. Do me a favour. Strange, I thought. They must know it's not true, which means that they're deliberately printing sensationalist stories to sell more copies. Take this to the end and it means that papers are profiting from the tragedy.
OK, call me stupid if you want, and 1 know that tabloids have been doing this sort of stuff for years, but this time it left a pretty sour taste in my Why give away a newspaper with PC ZONE? The news on TV usually has a much less political sway. If I wanted to know the weather, I'd watch the forecast with that nice woman.
But of course, that was not the intended effect. I read the magazint', panicularly ihe opening Editor's letter and EndZonc comment. And it all became dear. The Daily Mail is behind the further scapegoating of videogames for all the world's evils.
Well, that 15 surprising. It has been said before, but what shapes our children is not what they watch or play, but who they have as role models. And what shapes a terrorist is not what games they play or films they watch or even the music they listen to.. And it's about time certain newspapers and journalists realised that.
Ian Fishwick O There is a very good reason why certain shops are desperately trying to give the Daily Mail away. After reading the latest edition of your great mag, I have to ask, is there just the slightest hint of anti-HaJf-Lifism floating about the ZONE office these days, or are you just bored of referring to it constantly every rime a new shooter comes along? I mean first Ritchie S says that if it wasn't for Counter- Strike he would have got rid of it ages ago, then Tony Lamb says if it wasn't for Coimler- Strike and Team Fortress Classic gamers would have You seriously like these?
That's just wrong. Apart from anything else, forgetting it would be impossible as it is still the benchmark game for the genre, and everything is compared against it. Are you trying to ween us away gently because you know of a game that's about to blow Half-Life off the top spot and smash it to smithereens?
After playing some of the more recent offerings I went back and played Hi again just to see the difference, and it was still great, but I really hope something is about to happen as I think the FPS world needs a kick up the arse at the moment. Better than Half-Life? I wouldn't know what you're talking about. Check out pages 36 and I was especially taken by the photographs, which showed how easy it was to quieten down a very noisy games machine.
What I wanted to know, however, was whose fingers are in the photos? I assume that they belong to Tim Ponting, since he wrote the feature. If so, can you ask him what he uses to keep his fingers in such good shape?
And whether he works out? Martin Ripley O They might look nice, but they smell awful apparently. I say this because last issue you talked about emulating the Game Boy Advance, a console that is still on sale. I know there are some iffy loopholes that allow you to own an emulator as long as you use it only for legal ROMs but you guys were talking about emulating Super Mario and other titles that are still on sale.
Previously you've talked about arcade machines that here's the bottom line. Playing, via emulation, software you don't own is illegal. There is NO ' hour evaluation' rule. There is no distinction in law between one-week- old Game Boy Advance games and year-oId Spectrum games. If you are playing either of those on your PC without owning the original software, you are breaking the law.
I find it totally shocking that in the past you have condemned PC piracy but you feel free to tell your readers how to pirate console games. Emulation Zone treats its readers like the intelligent grown-ups you are. Nobody's making you use emulators if you don't want to. We just report the news and like it or not, emulation is a vibrant part of the PC gaming scene.
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Such are the advances in technology tliat it's probably akin to a cenniry in other forms of entertainment. Ten long years ago, during the Cro-Magnon age of games, a series of pixels crawled from the primordial soup and hauled itself to its feet.
A new spiecies was born that was dubbed by scientists as the first-person shooter. That game was of course Woifenstein 3D, which in turn begat Doom which begat Ciuake that begat the audio-visual extravaganzas we know today. So what are we doing returning to the castle, and how is it looking these days? Unrecognisable, clearly. Using a modified version of the Quake Arena engine, developer Gray Matter has fashioned an impressive looking game, the project taking place under the watchful eye of id software, owners of both the technology and the license.
It could also be suggested that the rehashing of the past represents a dearth of ideas. What do we know? Well first of all, Return To Castle Woifenstein isn't a remake, il actually is a new game that's in the Woifenstein era.
I mean, what you're able to do from a technology standpoint today, there's no comparison to the movie aspect of it. Woifenstein 3D was a simple game, simple and fun, and I think Return To Castle Woifenstein in terms of comparison to the original one, in terms of depth of the game, there is really no comparison at all. That's where the similarity ends though, as while Spielberg's empharic eye for authenticity has heavily informed MOH, the new Woifenstein resolutely remains a work of fantasy.
It's not so much historical revisionism as the stuff of a madman's dream. That madman is Nazi general. Heimlich Himmler, and he's opened up a whole can of worms.
It's hard lo know where to start with a plot like this. Let's try the ninth cenniry. Fast forward 1. It's not a documentary by any means, as HoUenshead explains: "AJchough every single element in the game may be over the top, based on the research we've done, and the Gray Matter guys have done, a lot of this stuff is actually based on crazy stuff that was going on.
So a lot of the elements, the Teutonic Knights and all these sorts of things, these guys actually believed in. Now, were they re-animating corpses? We're definitely going for WWII meets The X-Files, a lot of mystery elements and supernatural and occult and all those sorts of things that were present in Wolfenstein 3D.
Tdiili Germany is always an issue tor us because they always want to ban our games. But we expect it will have a version that won't be illegal in Germany because of the Nazi iconography, because we can substitute some of the art assets out. Things that are considered to be culturally offensive such as the swastikas are basically removed from the game, although, of course, that's not our intent with the game at all, it's not an endorsement of the Nazi party at all, if anything it's poking fun at the over-the-top aspect of the iiber-Nazis, PCZ How careful do you have to be?
Do you think anyone could possibly be offended by It? TO ; If your objective is not to offend anyone and that's what you make your primary goal, you're going to ultimately end up coming out with something that's going to be boring and have no soul. So i think that you just have to recognise that some people will be offended and they have a right to have a different opinion, but our standpoint on it is you're fighting Nazis, they're the evil side.
It goes all the way back to the Doom stuff when people said "All the demons In Doom must mean you guys worship Satan. PCZ Gray Matter has a reputation for sick games. Hetiaeck Rampage, Klngian Tllli:; We're not trying to offend anybody with Wolfenstein. I know some artists, and not just games developers, it goes tor music, movies and literature as well, I believe they use shock value to get their point across. Wolfenstein from that standpoint is much more of a WWII movie-esque take on the whole violence aspect of it.
You don't have any dismemberment of the characters, it's not like the Soldier Of Fortune 2 stuff where you can pump lead into corpses and sever arms and stuff like that. Regaining consciousness deep within the bowels of the castle, the first thought is to get the hell out of there; Escape From Caslle Wolfenstein, if you like.
This choice of styles is perfectly demonstrated by something as simple as opening a door. The orthodox method is to open it in the time-honoured fashion, using the handle.
About now is a good time to start slaughtering Nazis, and there are a number of ways you can do this, be it slitting their throats with a knife or shooting diem squarely between the eyes with a gun. The weaponry on offer is a mbc of the actual and the theoretical, and among the usual FPS fare are treats such as the flamethrower, as popularised in Kingpin from the same developer. As for gore, there is the odd drop of blood, but it is fairly tame compared to more gratuitous examples of the genre.
It is possible to attempt the game using steahh, but it's clearly more enjoyable to adopt a gung-ho approach and burst into rooms with machine gun being more likely to alert the guards. And while we're at it, we should mention that the doors open both ways, a miracle of German engineering.
Faces are reasonably detailed, and nice touches such as cobwebs add to the atmosphere. For instance, numerous tasteful portraits of Adolf Hitler adorn the wads, suits of armour regularly crop up, and as in the ffrst game, the words "Get psychedl" for some reason precede each mission. Return Tb Castie Wolfenstein also features a number of secret areas, many stacked with Nazi gold.
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As for gameplay, while not exactly breaking the mould of shoot the enemy, press the button, it kicks along at a fair old pace, You can't simply shoot anything that moves though, as injuring a civilian can bring a mission to a close.
The plot is advanced with numerous cut scenes, and takes you through a variety of disparate locations, lurching from the claustrophobic catacombs of Heinrich's tomb to wide open spaces such as a fully functioning airfield.
The twists and turns of the story are enough to keep you playing for hours, simply to see what happens, the experience made all the more enjoyable by the opponunity to mete out severe punishment ro Nazis and their undead brethren. As a single-player game, Retum To Castle Wolfcnstein is an absorbing experience, and will be meat and drink to FPS veterans raised on the 'defeat the boss, complete the level' ethos. Saving Private Ryan it isn't, but it is a right old laugh, and very scary to boot.
Opting to fight for either the Axis or the Allies, various classes are available such as soldier, lieutenant and engineer. There are clear objectives to achieve, and those we attempted included blowing up a submarine and breaching a beach wall, each requiring a reasonable degree of teamwork and strategy. That's pretty much your Retum To Castle Wolfenstein, and having recently replayed the original we have to concede the ten-year interim has brought about a marked improvement.
We're not going to go mad on the basis of a five-hour play though, and won't be giving you a fiiU review until we have played through the entire game. Suffice to say though, the first-person shooter genre is about to get a shot in the arm, and we have a very strong hunch there could soon be a new entry at the top of the Shooters Top Ten.
Happy Christmas for so they have promised. To date, thek only PC games have been. Shadowman - A solid and occasionally surprising ttiird-person action adventure. However, amidst ihe mire of games on show and the greasy -haired parasitic journalists sponging off obliging PR people, there were the occasional glimmers of inspiration.
However, that wasn't the only title that pulled our straying eyes away from the seaniily clad, buxom lovelies who were desperately trying to stir up excitement about games destined to score in single figures. Huh, as if we'd be so shallow as to fall for a cheap stunt like that, aliJiough after speaking to a six-fooi, surgically enhanced blonde, we can officially say that Erolica Island 2 looks like it's going to be one of the best games of all time. However, the game that caught my eye the most had nothing to do with flesh and debauchery unfortunately although a quick glance at the title could make you think otherwise.
Breed, now ten months away from completion, is looking like it's shaping up to be one of the shooters to keep an eye on next year. And, after countless exuberant cries to see more, we were granted an audience with several members of the Brat development team.
At a quick glance. Breed bares more than a passing resemblance to Microsoft's Xbox flagship tide Halo. Due to its Xbox origins. It all starts on a battle cruiser called Darwin that is returning from the outer colonies to discover that Earth has been overrun by an alien force called the Breed, which has subjugated humanity. However, a group of guerrillas possibly orientated experience.
We're aiming for something more realistic, like a cross between Quake and Delta Force. And Brat are keen to point out that there'll be a seamless transirion between Earth and space, while ground-based missions will be set over several continents, such as Australasia and North America.
If everything goes to plan they're hoping to produce a whopping 24 missions to shoot and think your way through and, as Brat were quick to point out: "Each one of these can be tackled from a variety of different perspectives. For example, you may want to play as one of the troops on the ground, using laser designators to mark targets, or you might want to control the fighter whose mission it is to bomb the designated targets, This will provide a lot of replayability in the single-player game.
But playing from different perspectives is all very well and good, though ultimately pointless if your only goal is to kill as many of the enemy as possible in a mindless frag- fest. Brat are quick to point out that this definitely won't be the case: 'There'll be assault missions, rescue missions, missions where stealth is of the essence. For example, in one mission, the resistance is trying to evacuate a large number of humans from the planet using transpwrts that they have managed to get working.
In this mission, it is your task to hold off the attacking Breed forces and then escort the transports off the planet. Having already had a go on a buggy - both as the driver, the gunner and a fighter - 1 was keen to find out what other contraptions will be available. Apparently you'll also get to pilot tanks, APCs and dropships, each of which will have individual and realistic physics, and hold multiple troops. You can toggle them between horizontal and vertical thrust.
In horizontal thrust mode it acts like a plane, while in vertical thrust mode it behaves more like a helicopter. We're very pleased with the gameplay elements that emerge from the realism. The cool thing about the rockets is that you can select laser- guided ordnance. You also have a laser designator, so you can have one person with a launcher firing laser-guided rockets and someone else designating a target.
You'll also be able to get your hands on the Breed weapons, which will be more exotic, but we'd like to keep them under wraps for the time being. We'll be creating muttiplayeronly maps, and you'll also be able to play the single-player missions co-operatively or as the Breed.
Many of the vehicles can be utilised by two or more players at the same time. Rest assured, we'll keep you prosted. Intelligence is out there, somewhere There isn't too much in terms of A in the build I played, so I asked designer Jason Gee to reveal what the team had pranned in terms of enemy behaviour.
This will introduce some Interesting possibilities for steaWi. The Breed also have a defence network, so if a sensor detects the player, it will communicate the position to other Breed forces that are part of the network.
This could bring attacks from ground or air forces or long-range weaponry. Castle Vslfenstein. O Traditional real-time strategy with stunning visuals. O Oriental theme takes Battle Reatmsoli the beaten track.
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Forget military and fantasy units and characters, Battle Realms is taking th«; genre off the beaten track with the introduction of oriental settings and characters. This has been done before with varying degrees of success.
Tliree Kingdoms had an oriental offshoot that never really took off, Throne Of Darkness has a distincdy oriental flavour but veered more towards Diablo ihanAge Of Empires, and Shogun had an oriental theme and was hugely successful but it relied more on strategy than resource management.
Battle Realms then, appears to be working with tried and tested elements of resource management and real-time action, but Liquid is hoping its fairly unique presentation will appeal to fans of the genre who are tired of playing with the same units and buildings in umpteen RTS releases month after month.
Fortunately for us, we don't have to guess at how things are developing with this title. We've played it. The first thing we noticed was the attention to graphic detail. Battle Realms is nothing shon of stunning in visual terms. Crisp and colourful with wonderful animadons, this title will surely be turning heads everywhere upon its release. Story sequences are also beautifully presented using the in- game engine, and many key events trigger short cut-scenes that develop the story and teach the player how to play the game.
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In terms of gameplay, it has to be said that first impressions suggest Battle Realms does not veer wildly from the norm. Build a settlement with all the buildings and resources you need, then amass an array, which is hopefully bigger than your opponent's, and get involved in conflicts of suitably big proportions.
Dragon, Serpent, Lotus and Wolf Clans make up the opposing factions in the game, and they each have their own versions of archers, spearmen, warriors and geisha with abilities distinct to their dan. In Battle Realms, horses are not just units that are magically 'glued' to your units and follow them everywhere they go. Liquid says there will be no huge battles, but rather smaller conflicts where players will find themselves thinking more about use of terrain, rather than just wading into battle with as many units as possible.
On the evidence of what we've seen so far, it's certainty true that there are no batdes involving huge armies, but that doesn't make the batdes any less hectic or exciting. Real line of sight and the ability to use trees, hills, forests and even height of terrain to your advantage suggest battles will be more a test of your strategic prowess than your ability to build lots of things as quickly as possible and run off looking for trouble, although, there is a fair amount of that, too.
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Step as fast as you can on the dark tiles, and try to avoid the light tiles. Make piano music while stepping!
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