Monday, July 31, 2006
Drawn To Be Alive - where intelligence meets creativity
In some cases, it's the idea which makes a game. Something along the lines of Spore - or this title, "Drawn to be Alive".
The game is actually an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod and is being developed by French design school students as a school project. It's due in October 2006.
From what you can see so far, the gameplay is about being a 2D cartoon character who is deployed in a 3D world. Your character (made of paper, since he has just escaped from a comic book) has to hide from people in the real world and avoid dangers like fire. The game features very unique, intelligent moves in a PC game like "folding" your character to or jumping into drawings and being part of it to hide.
"Drawn to be alive" shows that the UT 2k4 engine is very versatile and far from being dead.
Related:
A gameplay trailer - http://www.jeuxvideo.tv/drawn-to-be-alive-video-22195.html
Official site with another trailer (French!) - http://www.drawntobealive.com/
The game is actually an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod and is being developed by French design school students as a school project. It's due in October 2006.
From what you can see so far, the gameplay is about being a 2D cartoon character who is deployed in a 3D world. Your character (made of paper, since he has just escaped from a comic book) has to hide from people in the real world and avoid dangers like fire. The game features very unique, intelligent moves in a PC game like "folding" your character to or jumping into drawings and being part of it to hide.
"Drawn to be alive" shows that the UT 2k4 engine is very versatile and far from being dead.
Related:
A gameplay trailer - http://www.jeuxvideo.tv/drawn-to-be-alive-video-22195.html
Official site with another trailer (French!) - http://www.drawntobealive.com/
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
First NBA Live 07 screens
25.7. - The first screenshots of NBA Live 07 (EA Sports) on XBox 360
This is probably as close to photorealistic as it gets on the 360. You can see the players' sweating, detailed reflections on skin and muscles as well ass realistic blurs in the background. If they get around and make the player faces more dynamic, it will become shockingly real.
This is probably as close to photorealistic as it gets on the 360. You can see the players' sweating, detailed reflections on skin and muscles as well ass realistic blurs in the background. If they get around and make the player faces more dynamic, it will become shockingly real.
Nurburgring Nordschleife GTR2 add-on track
Nurburgring Nordschleife GTR2 add-on track
We don't have to wait until September to floor the pedal for some immerse action on the Nurburgring Norschleife. The green hell can now be installed as an add-on track for the GTR2 demo!
GTR2 Nordschleife "Brakesman Edition"
Download link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/26628274/NS_Brakesman_GTR2.rar.html - Rapidshare mirror
Basically, you can use any GT Legends add-on track in GTR2 as well.
Instructions:
1.Backup your Barcelona folder somewhere.
2.Copy your GTL track to \GameData\Locations
3.Rename the track folder to "Barcelona" (might be unnecessary, but did it anyway to keep the form)
4.Rename the files in a way that you replace the prior track name prefixes with "3Barcelona"
5.Open the .gdb and rename the track to "3Barcelona" in the first line
6.Open the .trk and change the paths to match the new folder name and file names
7.If the skies_central.gtl is linked in the .trk, change it to skies_central.gtr
Files as: Nürburgring, Nordschleife, TheM, The Green Hell, add-on, track
We don't have to wait until September to floor the pedal for some immerse action on the Nurburgring Norschleife. The green hell can now be installed as an add-on track for the GTR2 demo!
GTR2 Nordschleife "Brakesman Edition"
Download link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/26628274/NS_Brakesman_GTR2.rar.html - Rapidshare mirror
Basically, you can use any GT Legends add-on track in GTR2 as well.
Instructions:
1.Backup your Barcelona folder somewhere.
2.Copy your GTL track to \GameData\Locations
3.Rename the track folder to "Barcelona" (might be unnecessary, but did it anyway to keep the form)
4.Rename the files in a way that you replace the prior track name prefixes with "3Barcelona"
5.Open the .gdb and rename the track to "3Barcelona" in the first line
6.Open the .trk and change the paths to match the new folder name and file names
7.If the skies_central.gtl is linked in the .trk, change it to skies_central.gtr
Files as: Nürburgring, Nordschleife, TheM, The Green Hell, add-on, track
Disable the ghost car in GTR2 demo
Disable the ghost car in GTR 2 demo
The GTR2 demo seems fine, except for the fact that the ghost car in time trial mode gets on my nerves. Plus, there is no way to disable it via the GTR menu.
To deactivate your ghost car and make it disappear, you have to edit your player configuration file which is located in your GTR2 directory (GTR2demo/UserData/profilename/profilename.plr).
Use a text editor such as Windows Notepad and set the following value:
Ghost max alpha value="0.00000"
Save your file and start GTR2. From now on, your ghost car is invisible.
Filed as: GTR 2 demo, time trial, ghostcar, disable, deactivate, turn off
The GTR2 demo seems fine, except for the fact that the ghost car in time trial mode gets on my nerves. Plus, there is no way to disable it via the GTR menu.
To deactivate your ghost car and make it disappear, you have to edit your player configuration file which is located in your GTR2 directory (GTR2demo/UserData/profilename/profilename.plr).
Use a text editor such as Windows Notepad and set the following value:
Ghost max alpha value="0.00000"
Save your file and start GTR2. From now on, your ghost car is invisible.
Filed as: GTR 2 demo, time trial, ghostcar, disable, deactivate, turn off
