I think it's God's Actual Reality engine. 

Never heard of it, but it does look almost pre-rendered. Just imagine Half-Life 3 in that.

/drools 

The ray tracing is obviously at a quantum level of precision. That engine God's Actual Reality is fucking phenomonal. I have heard industry rumours though that (obviously aping Carmack) He plans to scrap it all together for a Next Gen engine overhall. 

 

...no, and where's my patch, dammit? 

lol, try hitting them with a crowbar - it's well funny! 

It looks as if PS2 got itself a new and good-looking FPS game, KillZone:

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I've played the demo. Brilliant art style, and generally very polished and "solid" feeling. Pity it plays more like Dragon's Lair than an FPS. 

Although there are these keyboard/mouse adapters out recently... 

In the demo I thought that the controls were bloody terrible and unresponsive, and the thing where your head/POV looked all over the place when you reloaded was annoying. It took about half an hour to ready and throw a grenade, which always seem to bounce off doorways back into the room you are standing in even if you are standing smack in the middle of said doorway being shot to bits. The PS2 pad does not lend itself well to FPS games obviously, but this is a fairly weak attempt at coping with the dubious positioning of the sticks and their big "dead zone". Other games have managed far better.

It did look great for a PS2 game, although the Helghast (bad guys) are just anonymous black shapes with glowing eyes unless you're standing right next to them. And the art is a wasted effort when the gameplay is below par.

Apparently the full game has chronic framerate issues, especially in multiplayer. All in all, it's a bit of a shame, I was really looking forward to it until playing the demo. I'll probably still buy it eventually, but most likely only when you can pick it up second hand for a tenner.

It's out this Friday in the UK... I think it might have already been released in the US, any of you crazy kids played it? 

If it weren't for Hitler and Orwell, war games would look quite a bit different. 

There would be more Zeppelins dropping bombs and Kaisers as end game bosses. 

If it wasn't for Hitler and friends, WARs would have been quite different. 

Well, I can't say I like World War 2, at least what actually happened (World War 2 as entertainment rocks!) but the Nazis had some uber cool costume designs. Some were real badass. Futuristic almost. Looked like cybernetic ninja assassin people. Cool stuff. 

Funny, I just came across this quote and your post above came instantly to mind; from George Orwell: "Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." 

his Hommage to Catalonia. Great biographical narrative.

He joins the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, only to find himself being used as a puppet on the string by a bunch of homocidal, power hungry thugs being made into heroes by the Western media of his day.

I'm not sure how that changed wargame history though. 

I don't read things that might beneficially increase my cultural awareness. That's exactly what they want me to do. 

So Logic says that you don't read anything, which we know isn't true. Is that Schrodinger's cat I hear scratching? 

I was refering to things along the lines of high and medium culture, and not pop and low culture.

Also, is this really reading? Or is it just talking in a drawn out fashion for the mock-deaf? We may never know... 

... just like Schrodinger :-) 

 

you know, we have a thing called an Xray machine nowadays, and they're advanced enough to tell if the damn cat is alive or not. 

oh, it is dead alright, and Schrodinger killed it! The entire theory is a construct to hide the fact! 

... was made of lead. And of course you don't KNOW that the cat is dead or alive.