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And wonder what they are thinking. I just read recently a guy suggesting that Epic Games do a version of the editing tools for Unreal Tournament 3 for 360. I'm like... yeah right... and I bet he wants for them to port Photoshop and 3D Studio Max to the 360 and bundle it with the game to go with it. There's more to making mods than running UnrealEd and there's more to having a system capable of editing it than being able to run the game. The PS3 has a version of Linux for it but I would bet you not many people run it and even if they do the firmware on the PS3 doesn't allow you accelerated access to the graphics card so that's a no go for anything game related under PS3 Linux. If they want for the mod scene to survive and thrive they better hope that companies like Epic continue to support the PC because that's where the mods are made. The editing tools are being made for PC and Mac so they better learn to love their PC and Mac gaming cousins because any mod they might be able to download to their consoles are made by a PC\Mac person.
I was playing this mod tonight for UT2004. It's in the steampunk genre. That's a genre which I actually really like. I like the idea of retromodern or retrofuturistic style like in movies like Wild Wild West or League of Extrordinary Gentlement which while they might not be the best movies in the world the art style in them is fantastic. Like an idea that spawns from this genre is taking modern technology and designing its appearence as if a person from the past is designing it.
You pick from 4 different characters and it is interesting how it has some features that are slated to be in one of my most anticipated games, Prey such as spirit walk. Spirit walk is a mode that when you hit a button your spirit leaves your body and you roam around as a spirit sort of like astral projection. In this game you can posses the bad guys and make them turn against each other. All you have to do is fly up to a bad guy and press your attack button and you posess him. The spirit walk mode only lasts as long as you have spirit energy then you snap back to your body.
The game is also interesting because it's both a first person shooter and it's a third person adventure game. You explore and adventure in third person much like Tomb Raider or similar game but then when you have to fight you hit a button and it turns into a first person shooter. It is an interesting blend of two styles of gaming which makes it pretty fresh in my eyes.
The environment you start off in is at a place that is like the grand canyon and it literally seems as big as the grand canyon and it is richly decorated with trees that are losing their leaves like in the fall and the leaves blow around, and more stuff than I want to list here.
Best of all this game is free and it runs very good on my Mac Mini. Personally though I think this game seems professional enough to actually be sold in a box at the store as a standalone game using the UT2004 engine rather than being an add-on. But then again I might not be able to play it on my computer if they did that as they might not compile a binary for me to run it so it's nice that it is in a form where I can just run it with UT2004.
( Two screenshots inside )
You pick from 4 different characters and it is interesting how it has some features that are slated to be in one of my most anticipated games, Prey such as spirit walk. Spirit walk is a mode that when you hit a button your spirit leaves your body and you roam around as a spirit sort of like astral projection. In this game you can posses the bad guys and make them turn against each other. All you have to do is fly up to a bad guy and press your attack button and you posess him. The spirit walk mode only lasts as long as you have spirit energy then you snap back to your body.
The game is also interesting because it's both a first person shooter and it's a third person adventure game. You explore and adventure in third person much like Tomb Raider or similar game but then when you have to fight you hit a button and it turns into a first person shooter. It is an interesting blend of two styles of gaming which makes it pretty fresh in my eyes.
The environment you start off in is at a place that is like the grand canyon and it literally seems as big as the grand canyon and it is richly decorated with trees that are losing their leaves like in the fall and the leaves blow around, and more stuff than I want to list here.
Best of all this game is free and it runs very good on my Mac Mini. Personally though I think this game seems professional enough to actually be sold in a box at the store as a standalone game using the UT2004 engine rather than being an add-on. But then again I might not be able to play it on my computer if they did that as they might not compile a binary for me to run it so it's nice that it is in a form where I can just run it with UT2004.
( Two screenshots inside )
