Full Spectrum Warrior's unique third-person squad-based, tactical-action gameplay depicting a modern urban warzone set itself apart at the show, garnering tremendous response among each of our key constituencies – from retail to press to the analyst community."

Full Spectrum Warrior is based on a light infantry-training simulator designed by Pandemic Studios for the U.S. Army as a tool to reinforce Army doctrine and squad tactics among troops. Incorporating squad-based, tactical-action for the first time in any game, Full Spectrum Warrior delivers the experience of squad level command in the heat of battle. The product was developed with expertise from University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, which worked with Pandemic to bring state-of-the-art technology to the game. Designed to simulate today's challenges of urban combat missions, Full Spectrum Warrior delivers a level of realism and accuracy that has never been seen in a military-based game.

Starting today, the new Chrome trailer, which was presented during E3, is available for download. "This trailer does not differ much from the previous ECTS trailer, but it uses mostly DirectX version of Chrome. We decided to make this trailer available for the Polish game fans that did not get a chance to visit our exposition in Los Angeles" - says Przemyslaw Marmul from Techland.

We saw two specific missions while at E3 this year. In the first, the four man SAS squad is trying to infiltrate a German-held castle and make off with some Abwehr records. Like most missions in the game, this one requires that you complete a number of successive tasks. First you've got to take out a German driver and steal his uniform. In disguise now, you'll have to clear a few German patrols, make your way in to the castle and take off with the documents.

Another mission has you infiltrating a meteorological base on an iceberg. Not only will you have to fend off attacks by dogs and enemy soldiers as you make your way to the base, you'll also have to stop an enemy submarine from leaving the scene and find a radio to send word of your success back to your headquarters. Since the ice floes will move and sink as you play, this particular mission can be pretty chancy.

Soldner will also be open-sourced. From what I've seen of the coding behind the game, it looks to be a very simple XML format. Therefore, whole new genres of games could be created by the mod community. Capture the flag could become capture the jeep, where a strike team is to capture an enemy jeep and drive it back to their base.

This patch addresses several gameplay issues, including, but not limited to, the following:
* Disabled collision on some bushes in the Jungle deathmatch maps
* Fixed "Grass in huts" in mission 3
* Fixed problem with some explosion fx always rendering behind trees
* Allows the use of the overhead map when in spectator mode or on dedicated server
* Changed text that says M-16 to CAR-15 in-game (the gun is a CAR-15 in the game but was incorrectly labeled)
* Changed default player name to "LOS Player"
* Fixed a few problems with getting server info with the in-game server browser
* Shows enough servers to fill up the server list box on the join game screen
* Tweaked 3D sound falloff values
* Fixed bug with M21 and M21 w/ Starlight where you couldn't select inventory items with keyboard if it was current item
* Fixed crash when flying around on map 11 in spectator mode
* Map voting works every time now Increased "no data" timeout value so players will be dropped less often

The expansion campaign will ship with eight missions. Eight more missions will be available for multiplayer. In addition to that, there will be classic missions from Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear recreated for Athena Sword. UbiSoft talked to fans of the previous games in order to find the most-wanted missions. Of course, the game will ship with an Unreal Editor tweaked for Raven Shield so the hardcore mod community can create more levels and missions.

Using the latest Unreal® Technology from Epic Games, developer Zombie Games is creating approximately 20 single-player levels that span the globe with detailed indoor and vast outdoor terrain. Real world locations have been scouted and photographed by the development team to create highly detailed reproductions of existing textures to mimic the exact look and feel of each battleground. Unreal Technology is being pushed to its limits to produce the most intense and detailed graphics on any system as well as unparalleled multiplayer gaming.

Players will face various single player gameplay challenges, such as hostage rescue, demolition and body guard as they fight alongside (and sometimes against) international special forces from the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France and Germany. More than 20 authentic general military and special forces weapons will be available to choose from, each with a unique strategic strength against various targets of opportunity.

Shadow Ops: Red Mercury will feature complete multiplayer support on both PC and Xbox. Xbox multiplayer will be playable in two-to-four player split screen mode or against up to 16 other players on Xbox Live!(TM), with support for Xbox voice communicator. Several different game modes will be included at launch, including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Plant the Bomb, Capture the Flag and Escort.

There are two main reasons behind the release of 1.2. First, it enables compatibility between versions using different alphabets (cyrillic, latin, asian, etc.). Secondly, it serves as a client upgrade to support future Linux and Windows(TM) stand alone dedicated servers.

“Conflict: Desert Storm II takes the squad-based realism of the first title and improves on it dramatically at every level of play,” said Jamie Leece, president of Gotham Games. “From the sharper graphics to the more intuitive controls and enhanced AI, this title is sure to be a blast for fans of action and combat games.”

Virtually every level in Call of Duty has a huge number of characters on-screen, some levels have as many as a hundred friendly troops running alongside you. The new scripting system really becomes necessary at that point - just to keep track of all the characters, not to mention the planes, mortars, machinegun nests!

We have put a lot of work into the AI, and things that would have to be done in script in the past are now done by the AI. This makes for a very dynamic game experience, where players can experience a level differently every time they replay it. We also have put a lot of effort into making the friendly AI squad mates behave like real soldiers on a real battlefield - so the player is completely drawn into the experience of being in the trenches with his fellow soldiers.

What's happening with player-controllable vehicles in Conflict: Desert Storm 2?

Grinke: There will two vehicles in Conflict: Desert Storm 2 that players will be able to control. One is a GAZ jeep and the other a Bradley APC. Another improvement here is that, in the first game the passenger in the vehicle was not able to shoot or use any of his inventory items - this time around he can.

You've got one guy driving, two guys on guns and the passenger is able to shoot out the back using any of his weapons or grenades or whatever.

As you see you have to pick an item which best fits with your playing style. However as you can still pick your other weapons you aren't restricted as in other games. You can still use cool guns but are also able to help your teammates as a medic or engineer, or plant bombs. The sniper kit is a special case as it enhances the sniper role. Everyone can snipe with a weapon, but with the sniper kit you are better suited to the role, what we call specialized.

It's also revealed that an important part of the main campaign will focus on events from the Vietnam war in late 60s, when US forces in South Vietnam numbered over half a million. Missions will see players engaging in solo action, commanding a squad, driving military vehicles, or taking to the air in authentic 'copters and planes. Weapons and military and civilian mobile units are being accurately modelled from period military data.

Marek Spanel: We want to keep game play style similar to the original game but we still want to introduce some never seen game play element. We also want to introduce second generation Flashpoint Engine that would allow larger and more detailed environments, using many new techniques and some significant optimised algorithms. We want to offer more freedom but on the other hand we want to make controls more polished and intuitive.

Pathfinding is pretty fantastic. NPCs will climb, jump, mount, roll, duck, peek, crouch, scurry, run like hell, advance, lay down covering fire, assess a two-way threat, get the hell out of your way when you're coming at them, and generally not annoy the player to death or confound him with their staggering ineptitude. It's a pretty good start, and with plenty more time to polish, it could be a stellar finish.

"There's suppressing fire, which works for both Allies and enemies," explains Infinity Ward Chief Creative Officer Vince Zampella. "Your allies will give you suppressing fire, and enemies will stay down and cover; they won't just get up blindly, pop up, and get shot."

This new single player demo features the "Crash In The Jungle" mission. After your huey goes down, you and your five-man squad need to make your way through the jungle to rescue another team.

This mission can be played on three difficulty modes, and gives you a taste of the action you'll find in the full game.

Our overall opinion on Line of Site is that it’s just plain awesome. If you like first-person shooters based on historical events, then you will likely love this game too. It’s challenging and that’s precisely what makes it fun. The fact that this game was based on a real group of solders is pretty spiffy and really helps to draw the player into their role.

As U.S. Army Sergeant John Baker, players join the battle at Kasserine Pass in North Africa, race to capture Messina in Sicily, and finally repel the German army at the historic battle of Monte Battaglia in the heart of Italy. Armed with a new arsenal of weapons, players will fight alone and with squad mates as they rush to stop the Axis powers.

The British campaign starts the player off as a glider infantryman on D-Day, capturing and defending the bridge over the Caen Canal that is now known as Pegasus Bridge. From there, the campaign chronicles the exploits of a group of soldiers in 2 SAS (Special Air Service) who are tasked with highly difficult sabotage operations behind enemy lines. The battleship Tirpitz and the Eder Dam are also real parts of World War II that set the stage for several missions in the British campaign.

Call of Duty is all about fighting as a group--it's not about one-man armies. Fighting alongside friendly soldiers--even friendly tanks en masse, in some missions--is the core theme for many missions. The scale is generally squad-level (small groups of four to eight tasked with a specific goal), but it does scale up to larger numbers depending on the mission at hand.

We have beaches, jungles, extensive underground tunnels, temple ruins, forests high up on the hillsides, and crumbling urban cities. We’re already playing the game in all these environments, so "yes" they’ll definitely make it into the final build.

You will enjoy driving and fighting from a wide variety of vehicles. We have everything from gunboats to jeeps. We even have some souped up chopper action.

HomeLAN - What new handheld weapons will be found in the new expansion?

Mikael Rudberg - The German Elite and the British Commandoes get the new weapons. The assault class for each team gets new assault weapons, for the Germans and FG42 and for the British a Bren LMG. The German Scout gets the Gewehr 43 semi automatic sniper rifle. The British medic gets a silenced and more accurate Sten SMG. The German engineer gets a rifle grenade while his British counterpart gets an Remington Auto 5 shotgun.

The game contains a solid single-player campaign (over 20 missions) which will take a veteran player 8-10 hours to complete, and a beginner considerably longer. During the single player campaign Hawkins either works alone or with a squad of teammates to accomplish the various missions in the jungles. The jungle is full of simple but deadly traps that are hard to notice with an inexperienced eye, so you have to watch and listen to your point man. Moving through the jungle quickly will mean running the risk of hitting these snares, but moving too cautiously will often give the enemy an advantage. The mission goals are somewhat forgiving in how you should accomplish them, so every once in a while you will have no clue what to do.