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The survival of your men is also key to your success. If one of your comrades falls in battle they will not be seemingly replaced by another unit in the next mission. This does a number of things to the game play. Again, it makes the campaign much more realistic and it also forces the player to cherish and respect the men under their command. If you do not, you will likely find yourself fighting for the resistance movement alone, which becomes very difficult. You might at some point find partisans who may choose to join your cause, but this happens very rarely. So take care of your soldiers!

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Due to the fact that Splinter Cell takes place "the day after tomorrow" Sam has an impressive arsenal of gadgets at his disposal, these include a fibre optic camera that can be slid under doors before going through them, a modified F2000 gun capable of lunching grenades, and sticky cameras. Sticky cameras are small enough to be fired from a gun and, once they adhere to a surface, the player can look through them and even rotate them to get a good view of the location ahead.

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If you finish the campaign and are still hungry for challenge, the game includes 5 single player missions. These missions tend to be quite challenging, so they will keep you occupied for a while. Once you complete them, you can venture online to try out one of the nine new multiplayer combat situations. Resistance has completely revamped the game's multiplayer component, making it a lot easier to get online and into a game than in the original game.

Resistance boasts an improvement in graphics over the original. To notice the difference, though, you'll need to crank up the game's graphics settings and have the horsepower to do so. Even with the settings set to their maximums, the graphics are not a large leap forward from the original. They certainly look better, especially the vehicles and flora, but the game is still not on par graphically with today's top first person shooters.

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Your enemies seem quite intelligent in this opening level - what can you tell about your opponent AI routines?

Marek: Well the AI kind of adjusts itself according to the environment and the game situation: They'll make decisions based on what kind of weapons they have, whether they're indoors or outdoors, whether they're in a group or one their own. They behave quite naturally and they've got tons of idle animations, they'll lounge around, maybe have a smoke, walk around, group up when they're attacked. We spent a lot of time on the AI and we're still working on it. There's always things to improve but at some point we'll have to say that's it.

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Leviat here with a good news and a bad news.

The bad news, you will have to wait a little bit longer to get your hands on Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: RAVEN SHIELD. The release date of the game is postponed till beginning of February.

The good news, as I know some of you are dreaming day in and day out about the game, be glad about this decision, as with the time we have now, it will permit us to deliver to you guys the ultimate Rainbow Six experience and a game worthy of the Clancy name.

The work we still have to do is tweaking and balancing the whole game out...and let us not forget the very important testing and debugging period that has already started a while back. So there you have it, this is the straight story, the real deal from the Producer to the fans.

Talk to you soon

Chadi lebbos
aka Leviat
Producer of Raven Shield

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Download the OFP Movie, made by the Northern American Alliance squad (clans are for Braveheart and outdated sheet-wearing in-breds). It weighs in at 5 Megs, is compatible with version 1.42 of OFP (and later, I would assume) and is guaranteed to amuse you. Note that there is a soundtrack rife with profane language, so if that sort of thing offends you, better pass this up or turn the music slider all of the way down. Simply extract this one to your OFP/Missions folder.

[Rushian's note]: Yup, this is seriously cool.. Def a must see for OFP owners. The docs say it doesn't work with Resistance, so just put in your OFP disc and run the old OFP exe..

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AT: Many gamers have complained about the fact that the first game lacks a save game option. The levels were somewhat lengthy, which was too much for some players to handle. Are you planning to remedy this in IGI 2?

HR: This is definitely something we took to heart, and have included in IGI2 Covert Strike. It's regulated by difficulty-level and done with the Map Computer. You have enough battery for 3 saves in Easy, 2 saves in Medium, and none in Hard mode.

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If you've never heard of NOLF, think "Lady James Bond" in the 60's. The dialogue was intelligent and humorous, the story was about as good as you could expect from an action PC game, and the environments were nearly tangible.

Maybe I need a life, but who needs a girlfriend when you've got Cate Archer?

As to whether NOLF could be considered "tactical", I'd have to say, "Yes, because cover, concealment and gun control (the good kind) are big factors in determining a player's success." NOLF2 promises to allow the player to exercise even more creativity when interacting with the enemy.

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Bohemia's title contains many of the award-winning elements of Cold War Crisis along with some new additions. Players control their character from both a first- and third-person perspective, and can switch to a special overhead command view in order to instruct units on the battlefield. Numerous vehicles can be commandeered, from civilian cars and tractors to military tanks, transports, fighters and helicopters. Resistance also adds new vehicles like motorcycles, cars and boats to the equation as well as several new weapons, including the Sa61 Scorpion, the Glock 17 and the XM-177E2 rifle. Graphically, the developers have revamped the Flashpoint engine, allowing for higher-quality textures, detailed trees and foliage, and realistic faces. The island of Nogovna itself consists of 100 square kilometers of all-new territory, complete with dozens of towns and villages.

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Since we are spending more time in cities in this Delta Force game, the levels have many more objects than is the norm. The levels that I have seen so far are much more engaging and lush than those in previous Delta Force games. Each mission this time will be longer than the typical Delta Force mission. I have played three of the early missions so far and they each have a distinct feel and flow that make each stand up as an entity unto itself. The mission write-ups indicate that mission types will be diverse and challenging with varied objectives and tactics.

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Acting as an elite soldier, players of “Vietcong” command the A-team, part of the U.S. Special Forces, in realistically represented Vietnamese environments. Players will lead as many as six expertly trained soldiers through 20 dramatic missions, and follow a storyline that captures the danger, fear and unpredictability of the war itself. The full-featured multiplayer mode also allows gamers to play as U.S. Special Forces or Vietcong soldiers and to battle over specially designed levels.

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The Rainbow Six series has enjoyed a long reign as king of the tactical action genre, and Ubi Soft are hoping that the latest instalment will bring that winning formula up to date. Not only do its Unreal powered graphics mark a giant leap forwards from the rather dated visuals of previous games in the series, but the developers are also promising much better AI this time round.

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Reminiscent of Medal of Honor, the game will be split into different theatres of war, each with 4 maps representing the major battles of that theatre. The games producer - Ken Balthaser - commented that for example “(…)in the Pacific, we've got Guadalcanal, Wake, Iwo Jima and Midway.” Of course no WW2 game could possibly be complete without emulating the carnage of the Normandy landings so expect to see a map based off one of the five landing sites (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword). It has also been mentioned a few city maps have been planned, including fighting through the battered remnants of Stalingrad, so you can replay “Enemy At The Gates” to your hearts content.

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Perhaps because the levels are so big, you can take control of vehicles, such as attack copters and Humvees. There are vehicle-mounted weapons to control, such as the 50 caliber machine guns. And yes, air vehicles can be shot down. They demonstrated this for us by shooting one of their own Blackhawks down. You probably don't want to be aboard when that happens.

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Everybody knows that chopper or helicopter become unofficial symbol of Vietnam War. And we could use helicopters in game for rescuing yourself, when you will be in trouble, or as a support for air attack. Some missions begin on board of these flying machines and sometimes you will use onboard machine gun. Except helicopter, we will use jeep, huge military truck and fast river boats. But there is no sign that we will drive all these vehicles. It seems that we only use them as passengers operating weapons.

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Infiltrate terrorists' positions, acquire critical intelligence by any means necessary, execute with extreme prejudice, and exit without a trace!

You are Sam Fisher, a highly trained secret operative of the NSA's secret arm: Third Echelon. The world balance is in your hands, as cyber terrorism and international tensions are about to explode into WWIII.

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While you can man, pilot or drive anything from a multi-person B-17 bomber to a near invincible Panzer tank, mechanized equipment is few enough that they won't overrun infantry forces. In fact, concealed infantry equipped with rockets can make short order of enemy armor in no time. Battlefield 1942 currently runs on a twenty second spawn cycle; a good choice because it keeps the action close without idling too long after death. The ticketing system, unique to Battlefield 1942, acts as a resource pool to keep spawning in check so there aren't any needless kamikaze or banzai-style charges.

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In regards to content, were there features you wished to include but were unable to do so, and if so what were they?

I would like more interactivity between vehicles and the armed infantry. Again, time is important. Doing something merits doing something right. We looked into what type of experience we wanted to give the player given the amount of time we had, and what was appropriate with a Red Storm game. I'm happy with the result, but I will explore this area more in the future to expand the experience.