World destruction comes in small shrink-wrapped packages...
Speaking of Thief 4 (Thi4f, officially), there’s been a rare update on the game's progress lately.
Months ago it was officially announced after being one of the worst kept secrets in the industry for months prior, and it was eventually noted that the game was in early pre-production, while Eidos Montreal looked for a team to actually work on the title.
The game is still in pre-production, but it’s more in the middle than the early stages, if general manager Stephane D’Astous is to be believed. He was contacted by IncGamers, and the following was said:
“Personally i (sic) have NEVER seen a team, at this milestone (middle of pre-production) in such good shape!”
And we will “NOT be disappointed with Thief 4”.
As if we haven’t heard that before. I just hope that Eidos doesn’t screw up this game like they almost, nearly did (some say they did) with Thief: Deadly Shadows. The game was still good, but not great, and a lot of stuff that was in Thief II, like all the potions and not to mention the rope arrows, was missing.
That title was by Ion Storm though, and they're not around anymore.
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Thief 4 Coming Along In "Leaps And Bounds"
Thief 4 now in pre-production, team in “good shape”
Thi4f Still in Pre-Production, Except Further Along, Perhaps
It's all been about Uwe Boll this week, it seems. Well, I was just talking about Far Cry 3, and now another Far Cry news piece is here!
Far Cry , released last year in Germany, has now crossed the pond to the US. It's not showing in theatres however, as it's going straight to DVD, with no supper!
The movie was directed and produced by the infamous Uwe Boll, and no surprise, it got sub-par reviews. It's supposedly based on the first game, Far Cry. Some of Boll's films at least have some recognizable names, but not this one, seeing as I don't really see any big names on there that are well-known, except...oh god, those d1ckeads from ScrewAttack, Craig and the other guy, Thomas. And Craig Fairbrass, who voiced Ghost in Modern Warfare 2.
Dare to watch?
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Big Download
Far Cry Movie in the US on DVD
…as well as quite a lot of other stuffThe other day, I came across a thread at TTLG.com forums where a guy was asking for people to come up with some questions for one of the people who worked on the original Thief games with the sadly missed Looking Glass Studios, as well Thief: Deadly Shadows: Daniel Thron.Thron, not Thorn.Daniel Thron was mainly known to me and others as the person who did the voice of the guard who constantly bickered with “Benny”, the other, drunken guard in all three Thief games. I think his name was supposedly Sinclair. He also voiced the creepy sounding Eye from Thief and Thief Deadly Shadows, as well as several other characters, allies and enemies, from the series.But he’s done more than that, it turns out. He made the box art for both Thief: The Dark Project, and Thief II: The Metal Age. He did the wonderful cutscene art and animation in both games too, and on top of that, he had something to do with the in-game maps, and the particle systems (whatever that means).So, quite a lot to do with the art of the Thief games, in general.
Anyhow, a few days later, and after sifting through all the suggested questions for the man, the most interesting ones were picked and quite an interesting interview was put together on the forum in another thread, as well as on the same domain, except on Dominus' blog, which has some pictures. I like reading through interviews sometimes, seeing as the reveal a lot of behind the scenes style stuff, and give you more insight into what it was actually like to develop a game. And not just any game, in this case, one of the most iconic PC exclusive titles that helped start a new genre, instead of the usual FPS titles of the nineties.So, Daniel talks about what he did before getting into the video game business, what it was like working at TTLG, the art of the Thief games that he was so heavily involved in, his inspirations while working on the games, his opinion on why Thief Deadly Shadows paled in comparison to the originals, what he thinks of the Dark Mod, and whether he will work on Thi4f (Thief 4), announced this year. And he also gives some other info on what he’s working on, some movies mainly, as well as tosses a few names around and such.Quite a good read, so go and check it out.----Questions for Daniel ThronOut of the Shadows – interview with Daniel Thronhttp://dominus.ttlg.com/?p=65http://www.danielthron.com/http://eidosmontreal.com/en/games.htmlhttp://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=98473&page=3
An Interview with Daniel Thron, AKA the guy who did the Thief box art
Black Friday
So I was talking about Uwe Boll's new BloodRayne film, Warhammer, which will begin shooting next year in January, the other day.
Well, just at the right time it seems, GoG.com (Good Old Games) has added BloodRayne 2 to their list of DRM-free games, in addition to BloodRayne all ready being there, since earlier this month.
You can pick up the game fro $9.99, and it comes with extras like a screensaver, artwork, and the soundtrack for the game.----
http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/
GoG.com adds BloodRayne 2 to their Games Catalogue
It's funny, you're going to see why I titled the post the way I did just now.
Well, I've been reading about how there's a mod for Crysis and Crysis Wars, called DeLorean Time Machine. If you don't know what the DeLorean is, then please go and watch the entire trilogy of Back to the Future. It's a nerd favourite, produced by Steven Spielberg back in the 80s, and features the DeLorean, a time-machine on wheels. It also starred Michael J. Fox, when he was still normal and had a career. It seems that even though this mod has all ready been around for a while now, the latest version 1.0 just came out a few days ago. What this mod does is it brings the famed DeLorean into the games, which allows you to travel through time. If it has to be explained to you, this is in-game, and is achieved by clever level design and mapping. By the way, the model for the DeLorean is very good.
Now, onto why I decided to post about this in the first place.
I watched the Back to the Future trilogy recently, but not only that, I saw the thing in another mod, but this time for Duke Nukem 3D (actually EDuke32). In the Community level in Duke Plus, you can find a model of the DeLorean as well: This one is not drivable like the one in the Crysis mod, and neither can fly, for the moment. Although, in the same level, there is a skycar that Duke can enter, and well...fly.
----http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?fileid=4147&lim=0http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=43920&threadview=0&hilight=&hilightuser=0&page=13http://tirido.blogspot.com/DeLorean Goes Back to the Future in New Crysis Mod
Where in the World is the DeLorean? A Mod for Crysis, and...
Well, I was going through my feeds, when all of a sudden I cam across a review of Assassin's Creed II, by Jim Sterling, naturally one of the more cynical, negative journos or bloggers out there.I was surprised to see that after reading through the review, which was overly negative, in my opinion, the game scored a 4.5. By Dtoid's standards, that's an average game, but try and tell that to a lot of "Assassin's Creed fanboys". I wouldn't regard myself as one of those, but I was just a little shocked to see this. It's one of the only bad reviews I've seen about the game. Mind you, it is the console version, so perhaps when I get to play the PC edition next year, it will be better. That happens sometimes.Besides, I've also read recently that reviews are very low on the list of things that get a person to buy a game anyway.
Destuctoid Murders Assassin's Creed II in Review
Thanksgiving
I was thinking of some widgets I could add to the blog recently, and in connection with my post on Rage having classic id weapons, I put a poll widget on the blog, which is currently at the bottom of the right sidebar.That poll will end next week sometime, and after that I'll have to think of a new poll question and answer options to come up with.If you're interested in learning on how to put polls into your actual blog posts on Blogger, I know how, because I looked it up with Google. You can find the easy way to do this here, or here.
AAA Update: The new Poll Feature, How to put Polls in Your Posts
What does AAA stand for?
It's not an abbreviation of anything. It just means the best of the best...
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