I got it for very cheap and got it because one of my favorite mappers Kew Jervis worked on it.

I agree, it was a great game - tons of atmosphere. I really liked Shadar Loggoth and those basement halls full of traps. 

The multiplayer was kind of interesting at the time too, but it never really picked up. Was lots of interesting tricks to do with the spells, like shooting a position switch spell just as your throwing yourself in lava with a fire resist rune. 

Bal

Oh yes, the WoT multiplayer was incredible - and I don't use that word too lightly. I think that it was too complex for people at the time, however. It came out right around the UT/Quake3 timeframe so all anyone wanted to do was blast each other with rocket launchers. Having to think about 20 ter'angreal and their various interactions was too much work I think.

WoT was one of those games where if you got a bunch of guys together who really knew the ter'angreals and how to use them it was an absolute blast. We had some killer deathmatches around the office during development. 

Tim Jervis did work on it didnt he, his unreal pack Illhaven is still awesome. 

Yeah I was quite sad it died out fairly fast, I had some great games on it, even on the demo before the full game came out. Was fun just having hundreds of homing stuff flying around, you're never sure how a battle is gonna turn out, depending on who has the most counters. 

w00t!

I never played more than the demo though. 

Yep, that was the first big game I ever worked on!

And arguably the best. Fsck Gears3 or whatever you're doing atm, get Epic to acquire the license for a remake tbh... 

Well, since it inarguably paid the worst, I'm going to have to decline. :) 

 

were you at legend during Unreal 2? do any levels for that? 

nitin

I was there during the very early pre-production work but I left for Epic before any real work got done. So, no, I don't have any levels in there. 

When is Matt Sefton returning to the Quake community? I miss that guy. 

Didn't he start remaking a map a while back? 

That was Matthias Worch. 

Oh yeh, ofc.

Why did all the truly old skool have names starting with M? 

8 March 2009 headline on his quake page at www.worch.com says he is looking for testers. 

but that's last I've heard of him mapping :(

BTW: http://lvlworld.com/a.php/Matt+Sefton 

Screenshots look fucking rad.

I think that levels gonna be kinda like a big deal. 

All this Mass Effect 2 E3 preview business is making me want to go back through and play it again. Eeeffffffffff 

It makes me want to play through the original again, not the sequel (of course.) 

played through it once on PC, it was a fantastic experience! The combat was a tad crap but the story and characters more than made up for it.

Really looking forward to the sequel! Hmm and the bioware MMO too actually! :P 

http://www.pcgames.de/aid,685633/Aliens-vs-Predator-Screenshots-Blutige-Bilder-zum-Sega-Actionspiel-erschienen/PC/News/?menu=browser&image_id=1136171 

always with aliens, zombies and trying to make it like real life and the like;

don't they have anything original for new first person shooters? 

But those ideas get cancelled when marketing comes back - saleability of content unknown, saleability of zombies 70%.

It's important to remember that execs don't give a shit what the game is about, only that it sells. And that producers tend to have their balls surgically removed upon signing their employment contract. 

originality is underrated but not as underrated as quality.