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        <p align="center"><font size="+3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8">loonygames 
          goes to E3!<font size="+1"><br>
          (part one)</font></font></p>
        <p align="RIGHT"><font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
          Jason &quot;<a href="mailto:jason@loonygames.com">loonyboi</a>&quot; 
          Bergman</font></b></font></p>
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        <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Other Oddworld Stuff</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">: 
          It's very subtle, but in the Oddworld PR stuff, there's all kinds of 
          other projects mentioned. The PR sheet mentions that there will be other 
          "side game" announcements coming soon (like the <b>Oddworld: Adventures</b> 
          title for the GameBoy Color that was released) but what I really dug 
          from this part of the PR sheet was this line, "just wait until you see 
          the bomb we drop on the world of action figures!" And since I can't 
          do their hyperbole any justice, I'll just read off the section regarding, 
          yes…the Oddworld Motion Picture: </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Finally and most ambitiously, 
          Oddworld is moving into the world of feature films. Our first motion 
          picture, to be created entirely on the premises of Oddworld Inhabitants, 
          is already in pre-production. Expanding on the events and characters 
          glimpsed in the Quintology series of game titles, our feature films 
          will cement Abe and his fellow Inhabitants in place as the key entertainment 
          icons of the 21<sup>st</sup> century."</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">How cool is that?</font></p>

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              <div align="center"><i><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Woo..check 
                out these (very!) early screenshots from <b>No One Lives Forever</b> 
                (14 screens).</font></i></div>
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        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>No One Lives Forever</b>: 
          I saw a very early version of this Monolith game running, and it was 
          enough to get me excited. <b>NOLF</b> is a first person shooter that 
          centers around Adam Church, a sort of James Bond-ish character. The 
          designers are aiming to capture the feel of the 1960's James Bond here, 
          and the result is a delightfully retro game. The title was shown using 
          the current LithTech engine, but they will be moving it over to the 
          LithTech 2.0 engine shortly. Cool stuff.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Star Trek: Voyager</b>: 
          I had seen this briefly during my trip to Raven Software, but it was 
          nice to see it up and running in public. The game uses the <b>Quake 
          3: Arena</b> engine, and they are doing a spectacular job of putting 
          the curved surfaces to great use here. They are used <i>everywhere</i>, 
          and the end result is a reproduction of the <i>Voyager</i> ship that 
          is exactly what you would expect. You play a member of a security team 
          that's sent around to defend the ship from aliens who are boarding the 
          ship, but part of the game will take you to the Borg cube (yeah, baby!). 
          I got to see a bit from the Borg levels, and man…they rock. In all, 
          there are nine weapons, and ten missions in <b>Star Trek: Voyager</b>, 
          and levels will be introduced by characters from the show (yep, they're 
          going to be featuring the real actors) who will give you your assignment. 
          I can't wait to see more from this one.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Heavy Metal: FAKK 2</b>: 
          I'll admit it…I'm a <i>Heavy Metal </i>junkie. I always have been. I 
          grew up repeatedly watching the original film, I've been an avid reader 
          of the magazine for over a decade, and man…I just love the stuff. And 
          who better to make a game based on the upcoming film sequel than Ritual 
          Entertainment? This is the second announced game that is made using 
          the <b>Quake 3: Arena</b> engine, and like <b>Voyager</b>, it looks 
          great. Considering that they've actually only had the technology in 
          their hands for 8 weeks, they've done a great job. There are tons of 
          lush, organic scenes, which like <b>Voyager</b> make extensive use of 
          the curved surfaces. They've ported over the scripting system from <b>Sin</b>, 
          so expect to see lots of cool stuff going on in the background. It's 
          tough to make any judgements about the game based on what I saw here, 
          but it does look pretty, that's for sure. Oh, and just to be a stickler 
          here…the film (and the game along with it) is based upon Kevin Eastman 
          and Simon Bisley's graphic novel <i>Melting Pot</i>, which never actually 
          appeared in Heavy Metal. The characters graced the covers, and small 
          excerpts were run (including the prologue) but the biggest part never 
          actually showed up in the magazine. :)</font></p>
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              <div align="center"><i><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Three 
                screenshots from <b>Daikatana</b>. </font></i></div>
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        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Daikatana</b>: I'm a big 
          fan of the MPlayer demo that was released, so I was kind of looking 
          forward to seeing the full game in action. And boy, was I disappointed. 
          With all the bad things being said about <b>Daikatana</b>, I was kind 
          of rooting for this one quietly, hoping that they would prove everyone 
          wrong at E3. Unfortunately, what I saw (which admittedly wasn't much) 
          isn't going to quiet the nay-sayers yet. As fun as the deathmatch is, 
          the single player stuff I saw looked outdated at best (when compared 
          to the <b>Quake 3</b> or current <b>Unreal</b> engine titles, it's looking 
          downright ancient), and the sidekicks that I saw in action didn't appear 
          to do anything especially revolutionary. If anything, they just seemed 
          like overhyped versions of the Barney character in <b>Half-Life</b>. 
          I'm still hoping to be proved wrong here, because after all this time 
          I can't help but think that they're still working on the game because 
          they believe they've got something worthwhile to show the world…but 
          I haven't seen that yet. In all, this year's E3 demo didn't look that 
          different from last year's. Which as you may recall was one of the things 
          that resulted in the scrapping of <b>Prey</b> (or at least, that version, 
          anyway). Let's hope they've got a master plan to unveil soon…or <b>Daikatana</b> 
          is going to get snowed over real fast by the other titles out there.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Nerf Arena Blast</b>: 
          Amongst all the controversy about the Columbine High School shootings, 
          the concept of a game where you actually go around shooting kids may 
          seem downright in poor taste, but leave it to Hasbro interactive to 
          make a game that does it with class. <b>Nerf Arena Blast</b>, a previously 
          unheard of <b>Unreal</b> engine title, is basically <b>Quake 3: Arena</b> 
          for kids. It's multiplayer only (the single player game uses bots) and 
          you go around shooting kids with big happy Nerf guns. Some of the weapons 
          are original, but the large majority of them are licensed versions of 
          actual Nerf weapons. I wish I had a kid to get this one for...it looks 
          stupid, but fun. :)</font></p>
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        <p align="RIGHT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><i>(<a href="index4.php">Continued 
          in Part Two!</a>)</i></font></p>
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        Illustration &copy; 1999 Rowan Crawford. This article is &copy; 1999 Jason 
        Bergman. All other content is &copy; 1999 <a target="_self" href="http://www.loonyboi.com">loonyboi 
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