Saracen

A few games in my repertoire recently - Strategy Title of the Year? [*] Lumines Plus (PS2) - Kills Tetris, Period! [*] Sonic Mega Collection Plus! (PS2) - Retro!! [*] Sonic Gems Collection (PS2) - Sonic CD FTW! [*] Tiger Woods Tour Golf 2004 (PS2) - Myself and the wife play this against each other a lot! [*] Universe at War Beta (PC) - Needs patching badly, but still good! And that's it really.

You can look at me and say it's my fault if you want to! It's a British thing. when our cars struggle up hills or fails to start on a cold morning we're like "Come on Girl!" Or when in business in Britain, if you refer to a smaller company or one of equal status, then you refer to it as a "Sister".... Anyway, as for the layout I spent a good 10 minutes browsing the forums there without reading the mirrored thread. Not once did I realise the change. But nevertheless I like it, it looks tidier and more importantly it looks fresh.

I'm not really a fan fiction writer. I tried it about 5-6 years ago, and it kept being inconsistent to the point where it never made sense. OK, my style and writing skill has improved significantly, and I now actually bother to proof read my stuff. But I'm not really passionate enough to give it a go again. The appeal isn't really there. In all honesty, I prefer to write reviews of games. They're short, and I can keep everything short and to the point. You may have seen it already, but I've written a Universe at War Preview, and people love it. Although I can't see why, it's not one of my best pieces. I've also received an offer to join the team at the new gaming magazine site Gaming Evolution, which launches in in just over 2 days. They want me to become a game journalist there. And if the site takes off, they're looking to go professional with corporate advertisement and sponsorship deals, which means monetary payments for my work. Right now though, I've had to decline the offer since my duty is with Petro-Gamers. That's where I plan to stay for many years to come. The only way I'm going to become a reviewer, is if a bigger gaming mag like IGN or PC Gamer shows some interest. But I know that's not gonna happen. so it's all good

You mean like C&C? :wink: If it brings in money, while kill a successful franchise? Companies have learnt to milk the cash cow until it it's dead. But then, why not flog a dead horse for the next 10 years, hoping it still gives off some activity.

It's just speculative theory. But my writing style is such that I like to write any ideas I have in "this is what will happen" fashion rather than a "what if" fashion. I like to give some depth to my theories as well instead of one sentence. I think it gives my ideas a believability factor. I've just checked my PMs and it seems a few people here have asked my the same question. Gotta love my writing style

Well at the end of Westwood's C&C 3 Kane was able to acquire a new body.. (cos concepts show he was just a head in concept and the body that McNeil punctured was useless). And was able to acquire Scrin technology for time travel and pyschic powers. With this technology he believed he could go back in time after the 1st Red Alert War and reside in Russia for 10 years slowly focussing his abilities for Psychic domination. He did this while working his way into Russian Government, and took on the name Yuri to cover his past from the previous war. Using Romanov as a puppet he would set out in his attempt to crush the Aliied forces to prevent the uprising of the Global defense Initiative. It obviously failed. C&C 4 was to start with Kane presumed dead and missing permanently. Nod was disbanding (ala. Modern C&C 3). The Red Alert 2 war had kept the timeline the same but changed something enough for the 4th Tiberium war to be a little different. The question of how the events in C&C 4 turned out, would only be answered in the periodic transition between Red Alert 3 and Tiberian Dawn.

Based on the awesome trailers that shows the museum of humanity with the Jonh-117 monument dedicated to the final battle that took place 50 years after the conflict. I'd say he dies. It's clear already that the human race comes out on top and wins the war. He had to be the man who took his own life against the Covenant to save humanity.. Afterall at the end of Halo 2, he says he's "Finishing this fight" I'm no Halo fan, but I love the videos. If you haven't seen, go watch: http://uk.gamespot.com/video/926632/617883...of-the-monument http://uk.gamespot.com/video/926632/617883...hn-117-monument http://uk.gamespot.com/video/926632/617883...es-of-a-soldier

So you believe EA should wipe out all the hard work of the APB team, and make a Red Alert FPS? I wouldn't agree with that at all. :roll:

I would more than likely say that EA will leave the modders to get on with their projects. So I can't see a Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 game coming out. In the typically uninspired world of this industry the highest bets will be on this First Person shooter being based on C&C 3. It would technically help patch up the poor storyline of the game, and would work around Kane's wrath as well. The most ideal scenario would be to take the game to somewhere completely new altogether. So it could be possible to take the game 10 years after the Red Alert 2 era which could work towards Red Alert 3. Or use it as a full blown sequal to C&C 3 by basing the game entirely around the next chapter which would be able to set up an RTS version of C&C 5. The possibilities are endless. But all I have to say to EA is for goodness sake employ a decent story-writer and music composer for this project!

The backing to the Insignia matches that of the Colonial Marine Corps in Alien as found here The insignia patch appears to be from the "UNITED STATES COLONIAL MARINE CORPS AEROSPACE WING COMMAND" Make of it what you will.

Those were more SageKing's words than mine, and he said at the time he was mirroring the General thoughts around the offices.

Yes, it's true you know. But I'll hand Sonic back to you guys when I'm finished with him :wink:

Actually, for the season finale of season 2 What? You're gonna do that idea in the finale? hahaha.... awesome! What about the unused ideas for this episode? Or are you spreading them out across the rest of the season? PM me your plans buddy

Most of these unit concepts have been taken to Petroglyph and worked on as a foundation. Universe at War's concept designers used alot of the original unused concepts as inspiration for designing the game. To create Tiberian Sun's Spiritual Successor. This particular unit is the foundation for The Novus Blade trooper as the body design and the Masari Disciple for the body armour. I know this isn't a UaW Forum, but I just thought I'd point that out. :wink:

I provided some of the random inspiration on Zee's part. And it's worked out pretty well I'd say. I've already given him ideas for season 3.. Zee has pulled this episode off perfectly. What I'm concerned about though is, I was laughing Hysterically at one of my own jokes!!

I've bought pretty much most of the RTS games to ever hit the shelves. I don't stick with 1 franchise that often... bar C&C and any Petroglyph games now. I even bought Maelstrom this year... which was a huge mistake. That's probably the worst RTS of 2007. Poor gameplay, voice acting, buggy as hell, and exceptionally boring. It's proof that you shouldn't mix a third person shooter elements with an RTS. Because like last year's Rise & Fall: Civilisations at War, it just doesn't work.

He's a Starcraft Fanboy, that about sums it up :wink:

I'd buy it anyway. It's an RTS afterall :wink:

Great. we've got the Quake Wars Demo, Universe at War Beta and now the APB Beta... Alongside Warhawk on my PS3, there's too much online Game time to be had!!! Thank God for unlimited Bandwidth

The Warthog Tank Buster is a great piece of American engineering capable of many different roles. No one should deny that. But I don't think people hate it for what it is, more or less what it represents. The A-10 has probably been involved in more friendly fire scenarios than any other aircraft. The men who have piloted these things have bombed Americans, British, French, Canadian and Germans. Plus everything between aliied troops, tanks APCs and the odd occassional aircraft as well. That titanium bathtub must make them feel invincible. :wink:

Halo Wars is an RTS. ET:QW is a first person shooter Now your personal standpoint will depend on 2 things. Which genre you prefer the most, and what your view is on the rise and fall of the C&C: ZH TC Halogen.

Yeah his reviews are usually quite spot on. He's quite funny and accurate in the process with these things... and releases a new one every Wednesday now.... He's only been hired for a month and is already causing a storm. check out his other vids, especially the console Rundown. That's actually quite accurate too: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...eropunctuation/

This is probably the only definitive review that you need to see on Bioshock! That is all :wink:

lol, not gonna hump the monitor again are ya. I'll be interested to see what the APB Beta brings... Look forward to it.

I'm glad Apoc decided to use the audio from what probably is the Best video in C&C history... You can't knock Kane's reappearance in Tiberian Sun... absolutely epic. That was a good podcast.. anything with Joe in is good, but that's not the point... Loved the Bikini reference though, that was a classic