| [News] Titan and Hyperion bring "Alien Nations" from Jowood to the Amiga | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 09-May-2000 06:37 GMT by Christian Kemp | 27 comments
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Ben Yoris writes:
Alien Nations is a real-time strategy game in the vein of "The Settlers", which was enthusiastically received by the German speaking public and press. The game is set on an alien planet inhabited by three very distinct races: the Pimmons, the Amazons and the Sajikis and features campaigns consisting of 10 single player missions per race, set against a giant 3D back-drop. Resource-management, diplomacy, research, commerce and battle are key to success. The Amiga version will most likely require a graphics card and will support PPC accelerators through WarpOS although the feasibility of a 68060 version will be examined. Optional 3D acceleration will be supported through Warp3D. Release is expected during Q3 of 2000.
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| Posted by Steffen Haeuser on 10-May-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (Andrea):
Hi!
Well, myselves actually I like Heretic II better than Halflife (with or without
Counterstrike...). I don't think a Halflife Port is possible, though... not out
of technical reasons, though... Look at what happened to the Mac port...
It got cancelled... Reasons??? "MacOS is not Windows", maybe ? Ex-Microsoft
poeople at Valve, maybe ????
Titles like Q3 or UT on the other hand are WAAAAYS above the current Amiga
Hardware. What does Q3 do after it loaded the level ? There is "Loading
Models", right ? This is a absolute memory-killer... believe me, I had
enough to do to fix that "model/memory-waste" stuff for THF, and Q3 (or
UT or similar games) are much more "memory-intensive". (UT requires 128
MB RAM at least). Also GFX Board is a problem... CPU not so much, but maybe
also a bit... most heavy problem are the missing Virtual Memory for PPC,
and the GFX Board...
There are still MANY VERY NICE GAMES which are "cheap enough" and which
are basing on a "not too high-specced engine" (different Q2-titles maybe,
and similar engines). And which are nice games also. Of course we should
hope that the first Hyperion-titles sell good, me thinks...
Ah, and if you want "more stuff", maybe someone should ask some more guys doing
Heretic II Addons about Amiga versions... :) Addons are often also quite nice...
remember how this was on Quake 1, still ? :)
Steffen |
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