Quakecon Rage!!
Firstly Enemy Territory Quake Wars. Due for October 2nd release in the US, Europe gets much respects and sees Splash Damage pulling their Euro Developer might and representing 4 days earlier on the 28th September. This is great news, "When it's done!" is great for the initial 3-4-5 years of development but as you're tasting the beta and tripping over previews it's good to get that date out there. Remember pre-orders score name reservation codes and some addition blag in the box.
RTCW2 or Wolfenstein 2 was mentioned but was lacking in video, screens and actually much detail . A big highlight, and really the only announcement as far as the game was the news the Threewave are involved in the online portion of the game, along with the original developers of RTCW online, Nerve Software. This is great news as both developers have a proven track record of providing a consistent and fun online experience. Single player details however were non existent with Raven still helming he single player portion of the game, instead news that there is to be a Wolfenstein movie in the pipeline helmed by Roger Avary was handed out, they didn't announce The Rock was going to be in the film, guess we can't say it'll be another sucky game movie just yet. :)
The DS saw a lot of love from the Carmack family with John's wife, Katherine, showing off Orcs and Elves. John also covered his ground up philosophy demonstrating how they build IP from a low platform and add on features rather than build to the top end and strip down on features. It's an interesting design philosophy for sure, I hope he pulls it off because it'll mean we see a lot more id stuff on phones, DS and Wii, with the PC, 360 and PS3 talking the ideas a lot further over time. Talking of the DS John has said he has a definite interest in making a Quake Arena style multiplayer game for it. The idea of cart sharing and the easy wifi of the DS appeals to him and he is prepared to design the game for long play times, even to the point of simplifying the game back to Doom 2 style deathmatch so you're not experiencing wrist cramp after 10 minutes. Nice!
Speaking of Quake Arena, it was also announce that id are forming a second tier team for the first time. This team will be developing a version of Quake 3 Arena under the title of Quake Zero and using the id Tech 5 engine. Perhaps most stunning is that this game will be 100% subsidized by advertising and as such is totally free to gamers. With the subject of advertising in games being a sore point amongst many, it's refreshing to see id lead the way in showing that it can bring definite positives to a gaming community.
Finally id Tech 5 and the new IP. Well actually id Tech 5 gets showcased tomorrow so we only got a glimpse of it in action before John revealed their new IP. Darkness, was going to be it's name and actually was worked on by id for a period of time. The game seems to have been a kind of Lost meets Far Cry and gets f**ked by insane id lunatics. However, the id guys just didn't feel right about he idea and dropped it off the edge of Q3DM17. No! Rage is the new IP and they only said that it they enjoy a "Road Warrior" style of game with lots of running people over as well as shooting them, looks like Mel is outta luck with the anti-semitic portion of the game. Perhaps we'll see more clues about Rage tomorrow.
I won't cover the usual Carmack commentary, instead let me teasingly summarize it in short word form so you click over to Shacknews for more. :) DX10, PS3 Architecture, physics, rocket building, Fusion reactors, Wii Ware and Live Arcade, Microsoft and Sony, retinal scanning and many many more. :)
Update 1:
Damn I'm stupid. I forgot the mention the entire back catalogue of id software is hitting Valve's Steam Digital Distribution service. Now I've got a lot of id software sitting on scratched up CDs in my loft so if $62.95 (10% off the regular price of $69.95) is going to score me all of id's games from Commander Keen right up to Doom 3 Resurrection, and I can have them on hand at the click of a mouse then hot damn it I'm prepared to pay for that and avoid the dust and spider bites. Steam is also offering packs of different flavours if you only like a slice of the id software cake. Check out the Steam website for more details on the packs. Hell, in the time it's taken me to write this I've actually bought them all. :)
Doh, the link I had posted and then promptly greased myself up to watch was actually QuakeCon 2006's keynote. I should not drink and write. I'll update again when I find this years feed. :)
Update 2:
No sooner do I take down the link than up pops the files I was looking for in the first place.
Courtesy of QuakeUnity.Com
Rage footage [1m26s]
Absolutely stunning stuff and if you needed more proof id is back on form, the Rage logo rocks too. :)
Update 3:
Here is Todd Hollenshead's Keynote [15m10s] and of course John Carmack's keynote [1h05m]
Again props to RogerR at QuakeUnity.com for recording and uploading this excellent footage.
1Up has a piece on Quakecon and get Tim Willits to reveal a little more on Rage. It is Mad Max! Read it here
Shacknews has tidied up their live blog and produced a nice summary. If you think my post is too wordy you should check this out.
Don't forget id Tech 5 is getting its own 30 minute presentation right now, I hope we have some more news and video later today.
Update 4:
Okay this should wrap up the updates and Quakecon coverage. IGN currently have two videos up detailing the id Tech 5 demo and tools. It's all pretty stunning stuff and I sure there are some developers out there feeling exactly the same way.
6 comments:
Daaaaaaaaamn Rage looks awesome. I really hope this gives both Unreal Engine 3 and CryEngine 2 a run for their money. While I don't know much about the latter, we've already heard Epic and Sony had to spend considerable resources on optimizing Unreal Engine 3 for the PS3.
This will almost definitely be a huge thorn in Epic's side, seeing as how Tech5 performs similarly on every single platform it was designed for. Kudos to id.
It won't be easy though. Epic and Sony seem to be getting along rather well. When you buy a PS3 devkit, you get Unreal Engine 3 along with it. That's some deal. id's going to have to fight past a lot of that stuff if they want Tech5 to be successful.
Moving on ... more confirmation of the Quake-like game on DS sounds awesome. I'm slightly disappointed about Carmack's suggestion to leave touch-based controls out of it, but I can think of several ways they could alter the gameplay to make up for that, and make the game mechanics more fun at the same time.
Besides, everyone knows the big thing to look out for in Carmack's FPS DS game are the graphics. That new engine just screams "license me!"
Now ... Rage. I'm glad to see they're diversifying a bit this time around. It is another FPS, but the decision to make it 60% shooter and 40% driving is interesting. I wonder what kind of pace the car combat will take on.
How's the Enemy Territory beta going? Any chance of some impressions later on?
If John knows anything it's code and it seems he's set to widen the scope a lot with the new engine. id Tech 4 seemed way to focused on both technology and platforms. Steve Nix who is heading up their engine distribution business has said they are really pushing it this time round.
I think Epic have made their bed with Sony and will not need to do much else but tweak Unreal 3 for the next few years. Crytek and id are going to be seriously snapping at those people who are yet undecided. I think Crysis and Rage being commercial successes will help them in the same way Gears helped Epic.
I think the touchscreen on Metroid is very cramp inducing and it's hard to play standing or even sitting. If we get something that can give a fast and skillful MP experience I'll sacrifice the more accurate touch screen controls.
I'm no racing fan but I'm not adverse to using transport to further a gaming experience. I think GTA does this well to some degree and as long as the driving doesn't frustrate the gameplay I'm going to be interested i seeing how it plays out.
I'll look at pulling something together on ETQW although a lot of it has been covered in the previews. So far I'm stunned at how much polish they've applied between Beta 1 and Beta 2 (that's about a month and a half).
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