Well, this weekend has marked the first half of id Software's 14th annual QuakeCon...
For those of you who don't know what QuakeCon is, its an annual get-together of gamers who compete in lan tournaments and so on. It is also where game development studio giant, id Software (responsible for Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and so on) give their big release info, and reveal new announcements on upcoming titles and so on.
If anyone is at all interested, I'd suggest heading over to a site like GameTrailers and checking out the footage of the conference. On top of news about new games for the iPhone, a brief mention of a new Doom game, and a few other bits and pieces, there was a lot of stuff about Rage... id Softwares new IP that is set to take the gaming world by storm. Similar to many other recent games, Rage takes place in a postapocalyptic world, where Apophis, an actual meteor (one that is set on a near-miss course for Earth in many years) has crashed into the planet, wiping out much of humanity and civilisation. Prior to its crash, the governments of the world had set up underground 'arks' where they selected groups of people (scientists, doctors, etc) to live in to be able to come out and re-establish the world after the Apophis' fall. You, as the player, take control of one of these Ark members who is the lone survivor of a malfunctioning Ark. You set off to discover the fates of the other Arks.
So does anyone else think it sounds a bit like Fallout 3? You could be forgiven for saying so IMO. However... despite all the fanboys in the world writing this off straight away as a FO3 clone, there's one important thing to remember her. id Software are the father of all FPS games. They are usually known for straightforward linear shooters. However, Rage is far from that. This is very new territory for the software supergiant.
Set to wow us with intense action-packed shooting, fast-paced vehicle combat and racing, a deep story and even deeper character, Rage looks sweet as. I can honestly say that I wasn't particularly interested fromt he initial trailer that came out back at E3 2007, but the new footage of the game really looks amazing. On top of that, there is some truly amazing technology under the hood of id Tech 5.0, the new engine.
Anyways, enough from me - if you're keen on learning be sure to check out the conferences... especially the stuff about the megatexturing and so on. Really cool technology. But here's the new trailer that came out a couple of days ago.
Anyone else looking forward to the game? Certainly looks awesome to me.
Beyond the QuakeCon press conferences, gaming has been a bit slow this week. Lil_Azza and I had a fair bit of fun on UT3 on the weekend. And I gave Splosion Man a ncie co-op session with my old housemates. Can't stress enough that those two games are absolutely awesome. Splosion Man in co-op is hell odd but fun. Timing plays such a big part... you end up stuck on some level pieces for ages simply because you need all players to play ball at the same time.
Finally - I gave the Batman: Arkam Asylym demo a go, and I'm fairly impressed. I'm not 100% sure I'll buy it, but I'm keen of getting a hold of it one day.
There's no progress made yet on any new levels that's worth showing... but I've done a little concept art work and designs that I'll polish up and show sometime for you guys to see. Til then, keep on gaming!
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