Advent Rising

Published 20 May, 2005

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  • sharpkiddie Verified Lead Developer, Eurogamer Network #1 7 years ago

    I'm Jake the Peg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um, with my extra leg...

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #2 7 years ago

    Xbox and PC Sci-fi action/adventure game, release date [as I've just found out] May 3rd.

    The game's built on the Unreal Warfare engine, offers a first and third-person view and downloadable levels from Xbox live and PC online.

    You fight through space in an attempt to uncover a myth about the nature of humanity, using your normal guns n' ammo, aswell as vehicles and whatnot. This game differs slightly from others though, when you take into account the special powers that Gideon Wyeth (you) can develop. All sorts of jazz from Telekenesis, to blasts of energy, to energy shields are at your command, levelling up the more you use them.

    The game uses a 'flick lock on' system to target enemies, whereby you'll sort of flick the analog stick (on the Xbox version) and lock your sights on to an enemy, freeing up the other buttons for bashing.

    The story's been written in collaboration with Orson Scott Card, a well known Sci-fi writer (apparently), and has a full musical score played by a 70 piece Hollywood union orchestra, and sung by a choir.

    There's more information on their homepage.
    Edited by 1 at 01/03/05 @ 16:59

  • Zero Beat #3 7 years ago

    This'll never come close to Halo in popularity because the gameplay may be great but the visual style and cutscenes leave a lot to be desired. It's American cheese.

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #4 7 years ago

    Right o. Thanks for the info about the engines, I did wonder. That's how they had it listed on their site, so I thought I'd juts pinch it as it was, and then blame it on them if it went wrong :)

  • Thamuhacha #5 7 years ago

    >Unreal Warfare is really just neither here or there.

    IIRC there was a version of the unreal engine (with associated online bits and bobs) that was licensed out by Epic under the banner "Unreal Warfare". It's symantics only really, but I think that might be waht they mean?

  • symmetry #6 7 years ago

    I'm pretty sure the Unreal Warfare engine was the engine used in UT 2003.

    As to Advent, it's basically a mixture of The Matrix, Star Wars and Halo. And like those three, it will be released as a trilogy of games.

  • marilena #7 7 years ago

    I'm quite sure the Unreal Engine is in fact called The Unreal Warfare engine. :)

    There was a rumour at some point that Unreal Warfare was going to be an actual game, but I haven't heard anything about that for a long time.

  • Razz #8 7 years ago

    i'll buy it.

  • Teeth #9 7 years ago

    Been looking forward to this for ages. Looks FANTASTIC.

  • Hilton #10 7 years ago

    well as you can see if your reading this you ppl above me have bben waiting ages and still it hasnt come out yet im getting annoyed ive been waiting ages too (im in the uk)

  • Darth_Flibble #11 7 years ago

    The game is not very good I'm afraid to say, it's very buggy and gets boring very quickly (gametrailers have a video review, which shows some of the annoying bugs) It's not a crap game like driver3, just a very average game and not worth importing or paying full price