Quick Gaming Resume for Week of 22nd Feb

[Ruslan74]

Not wanting to create many threads i thought this would be best to spread the news within the gaming world.

1. FEAR Sequel in the works, as well as an interview with a cute Monolith employee on the whole shebang.

"Though Monolith isn't divulging story details just yet -- or even whether the new games will tell one or several stories -- the titles will generally continue the story the mysterious Alma, whose hurt and rage triggered a supernatural crisis. Now that Alma is released into the world, the paranormal forces around her threaten severe consequences."

Outdoor levels anyone?

2. EA to slashes last-gen prices but keeps next-gen prices up.

3. Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords is available for purchase & download for the space strategy afficionados out there.

"Galactic Civilizations II is the sequel to 2003's hit turn-based strategy game of the same name. The player takes on the role of the leader of a space-faring civilization and must guide its expansion in a hostile galaxy. Gamers must balance their economic, technological, diplomatic, cultural, and military power to forge alliances, fight wars, and ultimately dominate the galaxy.

The game is single-player and allows the player to play randomly generated galactic maps or play through a multi-mission campaign that tells the story of an ancient enemy called the Dread Lords."

Read more on the game here.

4. Valve confirms HL2:Episode 2, read the story from CVG, sounds like star wars?

"Valve's Robin Walker, designer/engineer on Episode 1, informed us that Episode 2 "has been in development for some time" in an interview that'll be winging its way to you shortly. Although he didn't elaborate further, it sounds as though Episode 2 may appear sooner than we could have hoped. We're definitely keeping trigger fingers crossed on that one, especially as the developer has aimed to offer "between 4 to 6 hours" of gameplay time with Episode 1, according to Walker - shorter, perhaps, than fans might have expected "

Thats all for now folks!

[Darnit696]

Thanks mate!

[FeralBanana]

ooh! cool!

can't wait 2 play FEAR expansions multiplayer... new weps!

[SaintMg]

FEAR expansion packs ??? > i still need to get my copy FEAR<

[Ruslan74]

i can imagine they will mimick Valve's Episodes offering into FEAR as well... maybe it will become a trend and we'll get EA's weekly BF2 episodes too based on todays hot spots in the world!

[WAJKILLER2]

LOL, wish EA would make games like valve do. Man Valves graohics engines rocks, nothing like it.

[Ruslan74]

there are actually many game engines which deserver credit :

- Source
- Crytek's Far Cry engine
- ID's Doom 3 engine
- Monolith's FEAR engine
- Serious Sam 2's engine
- Unreal 2.5 engine ( quite a few games use this one too )

plus another handful coming up this year!

[WAJKILLER2]

Source is the valve engine i'm referring to. Whom ever owns it. I could run hl2with a fx5200 full blast and no problems, i try that on bf2 even with a GF6600man the whole damm thing comes to a standstill. In bf2 i have to turn the graphics all the way down the get a nice refresh ratio.

Man i tried winding up the graphics, turned the anti aliasing right up to 8x. F*&^ man what a laugh, i got 1 frame every 5 seconds. But what a beutiful result though, it looks like the intro onf the game. No wonder the guys with the blasted up cards scores so good. Not fair.