The PC version of Red Faction hits retail shelves today in North America!
To celebrate, Volition has released the "Red Faction Toolkit". This is a collection of in-house utilities and exporters for players to use when creating custom content for Red Faction levels and mods. These tools enable easy addition of custom character models, animations, special effects, level editor objects, and more.
Red Faction revolutionizes next generation gaming with Geo-Mod™ technology, the ability to completely alter and destroy the environment in real-time. Wage war through 20 diverse levels with 15 weapons of mass destruction. Hijack 5 fully armed land, sea and air vehicles. Red Faction is a revolution.
Geo-Mod™ Engine: The only game with real-time, arbitrary geometry modification allowing for complete environmental destruction.
Controllable vehicles: Hijack 5 land, sea and air vehicles each equipped with their own weapons including an ATV, submarine and high flying fighter.
Weapons of mass destruction: Red Faction features 15 weapons of mass destruction, each with its own secondary firing capability including rail guns, rocket launchers, riot sticks and heavy explosives.
Immersive storyline: A true first person shooter with an engrossing single player storyline, taking place during a revolution on Mars.
Varied objectives: Stealth, cooperation and action driven objectives are all important aspects of gameplay.
20 levels of varied environments: Play 20 intricate levels through the deep seas of Mars, natural caves inhabited by bats, the Ultor Corporation's bases and more.
Location-based damage system: Realistic enemy damage.
Advanced physics simulation: Supports falling geometry, particles and liquid.
News source: redfaction.com
To celebrate, Volition has released the "Red Faction Toolkit". This is a collection of in-house utilities and exporters for players to use when creating custom content for Red Faction levels and mods. These tools enable easy addition of custom character models, animations, special effects, level editor objects, and more.
Red Faction revolutionizes next generation gaming with Geo-Mod™ technology, the ability to completely alter and destroy the environment in real-time. Wage war through 20 diverse levels with 15 weapons of mass destruction. Hijack 5 fully armed land, sea and air vehicles. Red Faction is a revolution.
Geo-Mod™ Engine: The only game with real-time, arbitrary geometry modification allowing for complete environmental destruction.
Controllable vehicles: Hijack 5 land, sea and air vehicles each equipped with their own weapons including an ATV, submarine and high flying fighter.
Weapons of mass destruction: Red Faction features 15 weapons of mass destruction, each with its own secondary firing capability including rail guns, rocket launchers, riot sticks and heavy explosives.
Immersive storyline: A true first person shooter with an engrossing single player storyline, taking place during a revolution on Mars.
Varied objectives: Stealth, cooperation and action driven objectives are all important aspects of gameplay.
20 levels of varied environments: Play 20 intricate levels through the deep seas of Mars, natural caves inhabited by bats, the Ultor Corporation's bases and more.
Location-based damage system: Realistic enemy damage.
Advanced physics simulation: Supports falling geometry, particles and liquid.
News source: redfaction.com
In the UK and several places in the US, copies of Microsoft Flight simulator where taken of the shelves. The theory being that the terrorists could have used the program to train for their mission. Also, the new version of the game has been delayed slightly as the World Trade Centers were being removed. Many other games were pulled such as Spider Man. Also, many movies were pulled.
In other MS news, the case between MS and the US Justice Department has been delayed a week. This will further hinder any attempt to stop the shipping of Windows XP.
The president of Akamai was killed in one of the planes that hit the WTC. Akamai is involved with distribution of images and files all over the web. They are the Connexion of images and more.
Yet, I do not think these will be the real effects on the industry. I believe that consumer confidence is going to drop to the bottom. The market for computer games, new processors, and better operating systems will not exist. This will create a massive slowdown as to the future of computer development. This will mean all our news days in a few months will look like the last week’s stories.
As citizens of the world, we must continue to purchase as we have previously. This is the only way that we will salvage the tech industry and many others. Current war does not have a massive effect on the productivity of companies as it did in the past. I do not expect war to have a positive or negative effect on the economy.
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