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well read their homepage and you'll see this: July 30, 2003
Minister Kubla of the Economy, SME's and Research of the Walloon Region of Belgium has awarded to Elsewhere Entertainment a free-interest loan of EUR 1.6 Mio to finance the company's research and development efforts over the next 2 years. This will allow the company to further develop and considerably enhance its video game production platform (called NeoReality) and to finance the development of a new game prototype. Elsewhere's NeoReality technology is used in the production of our games intended to be played on the PC and current generation of video game consoles (PlayStation2, Xbox, Gamecube). The aid from the Walloon Region will allow us to add to our team, in the coming months, at least 10 new employees (R&D engineers, artists,...). They will work on the development of several innovative, proprietary and reusable pieces of software : real-time 3D graphic rendering, physics simulation engine, artificial intelligence systems, advanced animation tools, game-specific scripting language,... This will give us the critical mass in terms of team size and financial muscle to successfully compete against the other industry players in France, UK, Germany, and the rest of Europe.
It's one of these days...
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X2 seems sweet as well, I enjoyed Freelancer a lot until the storyline fell away, then it got a bit boring.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost seems nice as well, so does Far Cry
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The full verson of X was on the CD-ROM of the last month's issue of the german PC Games.
When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it.
--Dilbert cartoon
"Interplay.some zombiefied unlife thing going on there" - skavenhorde at RPGWatch
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost seems nice as well, so does Far Cry I'm liking STALKER for the gameplay. It's Diablo meets Freelancer meets Deus Ex. Looking forward to it lots!
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And I am interested in how those ukranian guys have translated a masterpiece into a game <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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Masterpiece? Was STALKER a book or something originally?
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"Roadside Piknick" (often called "Stalker") is a very popular book by 2 of Russia's best Philosophical Sci-Fi writers, the Strugatskiy brothers. They wrote 40 years ago.
It's basically about alien debris on earth (hence the radioactive Zone) and people (stalkers) who make profit by gathering and selling them.
The game is BASED on those books, the developperss said that it's too difficult to make an action game out of a philosophical sci-fi, so they modified it.
Look on google if you wish, you might find the books in english. I remember I posted the link a while ago in the RPG Forums here, a topic about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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That sounds good. I'm glad they didn't try to replicate the story. Story plots rarely translate well into game rules. But the basic idea is very nice! Thanks for that DATD!
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yup, stalker has a pretty unique gameplay concept, can't wait. have you seen the movie of it's physics engine??? very nice
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That sounds good. I'm glad they didn't try to replicate the story. Story plots rarely translate well into game rules. But the basic idea is very nice! Thanks for that DATD! Yet it looks the developpers suceeded in re-creating the same athmosphere. I am eager to see the game in action, though I don't think it will run on my current computer. We'll see in the future *mysterious smile*
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some nice screens of STALKER can be found HERE
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