Act of War demo released News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
Atari has released a pretty hefty demo of Eugen Systems' extremely promising real-time strategy title Act of War: Direct Action, which makes battlefields out of the likes of San Francisco, Washington, Moscow and London and sees the player fighting against terrorists funded by a consortium of petrol giants trying to destabilise the economy and profit from rocketing oil prices.
The 685MB demo features one single-player mission with five objectives, and can be downloaded from the official website right now, although you'll have to provide an email address and pick your country of origin from a drop-down list to get at it.
The full game, due out this spring, features a story crafted by best-selling author Dale Brown, looks absolutely gobsmackingly gorgeous and toys with RTS conventions like building troops in Barracks in the like, having you medevac wounded troops and imprison enemy soldiers rather than replacing and killing respectively. The full game will also feature multiplayer options and a single-player skirmish mode, and we should have more to tell you about its progress in the near future - assuming the near-future scenario invented for the game hasn't taken full effect by then...
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AntiVir. The clue was my saying 'AntiVir' in the comment above...:) (I know, it sounds generic enough it's not obvious it's a product name - it's a free but decent German product).
Info on the trojan is at http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?virusid=494 15 I'll download the demo, install it on a quarantined PC and see if the symptoms described occur. |
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AntiVir. The clue was my saying 'AntiVir' in the comment above...:) (I know, it sounds generic enough it's not obvious it's a product name - it's a free but decent German product).
Hm, I am using the very same AV program, it's updated, and of course it's running in the background, but it didn't complain when I downloaded/installed the AoW demo. edit: I got it from the game's official homepage, if that's any help.
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Royal Fool
17/01/05 @ 21:05
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How come I've never heard of this game before? Why does such a promising game slip under everyone's radar?
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Well, the demo did crash my PC at what I think was the end of the first mission.
Looked interesting so far, although the fact that you did not get to built tanks meant that you had to do almost everything with airplanes, but then again you are playing as the US, lol. And now the demo just crashes mid mission, nice.
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KiLlerKnight
18/01/05 @ 02:04
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I looked at the screenshots, and thought this is unbelievable. Play the demo, and it WAS unbelievable. Unbelievable boring with crappy graphics that is. A poor man's C&C. And it will be published by Atari, oh my God LOL.
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Royal Fool
18/01/05 @ 10:33
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I installed it last night, but didn't really have the time to play it for very long so I decided to wait until today. I'll get to it after school, I guess.
The readme did mention lots of bugs with graphics cards, mostly freezing. And the demo apparently features virtually no base building. Well, it looks cool anyway. :P |
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