Freitag, 21. März 2003

Pass the Gamecube: Watched a lot of CNN last night and wow that game (it's called "Iraqi Freedom") is good! Although I'm not sure why they are showing this game for so long - probably nothing else of interest going on in the world. The graphics are really really good. Ambient lighting, environment mapping - the works. It works like this: You see a neat satellite image of Baghdad and then get to choose your position (1, 2 or 3). After you've selected that position you see shots of things going on in the distance (flashes, explosions the lot). The whole thing is in real time - so when it gets dark you have to remember to put the night vision on. You have the option of then switching your view to advancing troops in South Iraq (man they even add distortion so it looks like a satellite phone is being used - and check out how they mapped the sand - awesome!). But the key to the whole thing is a three dimensional display where you see AWACS airplanes flying around and ships moving. If you're playing the licenced version you even get to see the Stealth bombers! Now the trick is that you can zoom into that part of the game and start moving the vehicles and planes around - or even backwards in time. A nice effect is that you can set of sirens and everyone starts hurrying for the shelters or bunkers (of course only if you remembered to build them in the previous stage of the game). Unfortunately CNN didn't mention which plattforms the game's available for. I hope they bring it out for my Gamecube. It really rocks! If I didn't know better I would think it was real.