Q. How many players will be able to play in one game in team deathmatch or deathmatch games?

A. "After changing engine I can say only I don't know. We have thought about numbers around 20"

We have included 16 maps on which we are planning 16 multiplayer scenarios and 32 single player. Our goal is to make the bots totally autonomous without the help of scrits or waypoints. The bots will be privates while the players will be officers.

GameSpy: What do you think is behind the public's fascination with terrorism and counter-terrorist tactics? Why is the subject so fascinating to us?

Paul Schuytema: We all tend to be attracted by things that frighten us, and by its very nature, terrorism is dangerous and unpredictable. On the other hand, terrorism (unless you are the freedom fighter or terrorist) is very clearly an evil, and it's easy to envision yourself as the "good guy" who is going in to right a major wrong. In that sense, it taps into two deeply seated human interests: the intrigue of fear and the desire to be a hero.

In what could turn out to be very innovative move, IGI uses a flight sim graphics engine. In Rogue Spear, a mountaintop in the distance is actually a 2D bitmap image. But in IGI, a mountaintop in the distance actually exists in the 3D game space. That may not sound all that impressive, but imagine waging a firefight across a huge landscape instead of the cramped quarters of Rogue Spear, and all of a sudden you have an exciting new dynamic--one that promises to meld Rogue Spear and Delta Force with the wide-open spaces of Tribes.

From the types of weapons, details of historical operations, and even info on numerous CT groups across the globe, this trainer has it all. One of the editors called it "The Encarta Encyclopedia of Counter-Terrorism", that is probably not too far off a description of what the interactive trainer offers, information wise. This data isn't here without a purpose however. In a nutshell, the trainer is putting you, the player, in the shoes of an incoming cadet, who's just jumping at the chance to put some terrorist scum into their place, but in real life, before you can get your trigger happy hands on an MP5, you have to go through a series of tests.

For the uninitiated, the 2 CD set contains a Training CD as well as a Mission CD. The Training CD is chocked full of information, bristling with content. Everything one would be required to know and then some is all in there. Of particular interest was the subject of "Field Encryption" and in the CD itself, was teeming with specifics that could make any OCS (Officer Candidate School) Cadet wish he had this before enlisting. Make no mistake, the people behind this product are the real McCoys! I can't stress enough on the information found in the Training CD. Right there alone is worth what you may pay at retail and what you read is far better than any fiction currently out there. Heck - it's based on Real-World sources. You'll even be required to take a Covert Ops Exam!

If you played Quake all your life, and wondered what all the hype around Rogue Spear is, and you never knew anything about tactical games, and wanted a quick start in the Rogue Spear community, this is your ticket. To play Rogue Spear well you have to learn something in CT action and tactics. Myself, I picked it up through scurrying around for informations, hours browsing the web, and a LOT of books. You don't have to go through the pain, it's all in that Training CD of yours. Point is, you buy this title, you know what RS is all about, you learn about CT stuff, and the entire Rainbow Six series suddenly made a LOT of sense to you. It's more fun playing that way. Playing RS as a shooter is boring, playing it tactically, well, that's something you have to learn, and once again, all the info is in that Training CD.

All the five major powers are represented: USA, England, Russia, Germany and Japan. The theatres are North Africa, the Pacific, Eastern Europe and Western Europe. We've picked the scenarios which are well known to most people like Guadacanal, the Battle of Kursk, Iwo Jima, Stalingrad, Arnheim, El Alamein and many more totaling up to sixteen scenarios. All of them can be played in multiplayer and single player with the possibility of playing the Axis and then the Allied side in the single player game.

The game flow can be summed up by 'action sequence, cut-scene, action sequence, cut-scene', repeat. But, it does make the game very cinematic. There is a lot of story here, and it unfolds bit by bit in an intriguing way which keeps you interested. I don't know if I want to finish the action sequences to get to the cut-scenes or vice versa!

"The Mark 23 provides this accuracy without the need for hand-fitted parts common in custom-built match pistols costing thousands of dollars more. One of the most thoroughly tested handguns in history, the MK23/Mark 23 project originated in 1991 when HK began development for the U.S. Special Operations Command, the unit that directs the activities of America’s most elite military units, including the Navy SEALs and the Army Special Forces."

In Delta Force: Land Warrior, you play the role of one of five military experts, each with his or her own specialty. You'll embark on a series of 20 missions all over the world, from Egypt to South America. And depending on which character you choose, your COA (Course of Action) will be different for each. You'll be able to choose from a demolitions/grenadier expert, a heavy gunner, an underwater demolitions expert, a sniper and a close quarters specialist. I was able to play with Cole "Gas Can" Harris, a soldier with a penchant for shrapnel. He can launch grenades with deadly accuracy, taking out targets at over 100 meters with no problem.

5 new scenarios have been included with Elite Edition and the maps are certainly bigger and more complex than the previous offerings! Enemies are now more tenacious and depending on your settings, could be even far deadlier than yourself. Owners of SWAT 3 may also download the enhancements and update from Sierra when Elite Edition ships...

You'll be able to plan the actions of the team in a mission with the help of a similar system to that used in Hidden & Dangerous. However, now the tactics planning is done in the level rather than on the map.

Like Hidden & Dangerous, there's plenty of variety and various options for solving the problems you come up against. You'll get to play 23 missions in nine different campaigns, and there are also maps designed exclusively for multiplayer gaming.

Fans of Red Storm's popular Rogue Spear tactical counter-terrorist game will get a kick out of the mission pack Urban Ops. Objectives take place in populated areas around the globe under the threat of ghastly terrorist acts. It's up to you and your team of the UN's elite to save the targeted locations from a horrible fate.

Alongside four new weapons, five single-player missions, eight multiplayer maps, and five gameplay modes have been added. Terrorist tactics have been updated, demanding stronger nerves of steel than before. If you liked the parent, then you'll enjoy this add-on.

In addition to the multiplayer supplement, there are new characters, skins, and five new missions in the Elite Edition upgrade, including: Airport, Chang's Theater, Hollywood Hills, City of Angels Hospital, and Los Angeles Subway. And if that wasn't enough, Sierra has also included a new SWAT3 3.14 update (3.12 is the current), and some killer developer tools that allow you to "modify existing missions by creating scenarios, collections of characters and objectives;" an amazing retail package. But what makes this even more mind-blowing is that Sierra is giving this upgrade away for free for previous SWAT3 owners.

The campaign missions were built by the team at RSE and basically, they are RSE's finest work. While novices to the Rogue Spear series will see little to no differences between the missions seen in COE and seen prior, veterans of Rogue Spear can tell that there's just something special about how these campaign missions were put together. Even the little things, like the plot of the mission, were superbly crafted. The first mission, Lucky Snare is based in the jungles of Bolivia, and they look superb. The level looks great because they managed to use small hills and crevices to really convey the effect of real land. In past maps, the tendency had been either towards flattened out landscapes, or gradual, simplified hills. Furthermore, they were truly able to capture perspective for the backgrounds. The river below the gorge really does look like its 100 feet down, and the hill above the waterfall looks as if it rises to the sky. The other two missions, on an arctic base and at a missile silo are also superb looking missions.

Sierra has added several new moves for your AI character, which assist greatly in gameplay. While you've always been able to lean to one side or the other in SWAT3, there is now a temporary lean command, which automatically returns you to upright when released. Similarly, there's a temporary crouch mode as well.

New weapon commands are a magnified view with some weapons (basically just a zoom-in view with a new reticule), a new half-throw and full-throw for grenades, and variable reticules for your gun (ranging from the default reticule, to a small triangle, to a mere dot).

One of the main reasons NovaLogic stuck with voxels so long for this series was their ability to offer long ranges for sniping and tactical action. Polygons, they assured us, couldn't offer such flexibility at an acceptable cost in performance. Apparently the success of games like Tribes and Motocross Madness convinced them otherwise, because Land Warrior sacrifices little (if any) of the long range combat of its predecessors, and also manages to deliver exciting terrain detail. Actually, from what is visible in the desert setting of the demo map, the terrain may even be more realistic now, as the new engine seems to smooth out the dips and hillocks a bit, looking more natural and less exaggerated than before. And you can still reach out and touch someone a long way away.

The terrain looked awesome, and the AI on the enemies wasn't bad; they had good, but not perfect, vision, and their aim wasn't as good as the Rogue Spear AI, which at times was unrealistic. Some of the buildings are made of bullet-permeable material, so ducking into a shack may not be any protection from attacking guards. Finally getting to play the game really sold us on the potential of I.G.I. We can't wait to see a beta or demo.

It was interesting how the game makes you visible (or invisible when you crouch or go prone), since that is certainly one of the crucial elements in the field. It had something to do with whether you are wearing the Ghillie Suit, too. All these parameters decide your stealth. On the other hand, if you are not visible to other players, opening fire will give you away. Such a trade-off is something often encountered in actual combat. It's the little things that make this game so appealing in multiplayer… The engine took care of some cute little details, like whether or not your enemy is visible to you (and to what extent, if he is). It considers angle and altitude, as well as "extra" camouflage he/she is wearing. It's sometimes possible that you see tracers coming out of "thin air", sort to speak.

SWAT 3 Elite Edition is a major upgrade to the original title. How does Sierra plan to combat impressions that this is just another rebundling of old content?

The game is so much more than "just a gold version of the original." The team has added an incredible amount of content and features, to the point that S3EE is a unique experience. Fans will find that all aspects of the original game have been enhanced. In addition to the multi-person mode, new multi-person and single user missions are included: a hostage rescue mission at LA General Hospital, a scenario set on the LA commuter train, one set in Chang's Chinese Theater, and a cool mission that has the German Rap Star Tristan as one of the enemies. [more..]

SOLID SNAKE IS SOLID GOLD! METAL GEAR SOLID PC GOES GOLD

Microsoft today announced that Metal Gear Solid PC, the PC version of Konami's number one selling console game, has gone gold. This means that the product is completed and is expected to hit store shelves in the U.S. later this month. Metal Gear Solid PC has all the intense action, cunning espionage and tactical stealth of the original, with exciting new features that improve the game play experience.

Metal Gear Solid PC builds upon the original console title with several new features, such as high-resolution graphics, a first-person play mode, and the ability to save the game at any moment. All missions from the original Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid VR Missions are included for added game play depth. Showcasing stunning graphics, an immersive, cinematic experience, intriguing story line and revolutionary gameplay, Metal Gear Solid PC delivers all the thrills of a blockbuster spy movie.

In the game, players assume the role of retired Special Forces veteran Solid Snake as they attempt to liberate a secret Alaskan weapons base from a band of ruthless terrorists. Armed with only a pair of binoculars and a bad attitude, gamers must rescue the hostages and save the world from nuclear destruction before time runs out. But danger lurks around every corner, with deadly AI enemies on the prowl. Encompassing a multitude of intense missions, Metal Gear Solid PC entwines fans in covert operations and thrilling action that guarantees a heart-pounding game play experience.

In association with Novalogic, DF3.NET is offering the opportunity to fans of the Delta Force genre to name Land-Warrior's tagline. In Delta Force 2, the tagline was "If you run, you'll just die tired!". We would love to see the public come up with a just as great tagline, with the winner being rewarded with a $500 special forces watch plus a free copy of Land Warrior for their troubles.

Tip 6: Prepare the Room with Door Breach/Flashbang

This is common tactic for CT teams. However, in Rogue Spear you have to do it a little differently. I noticed that when you throw a flashbang into a room with hostages and terrorists, the tangos will try and kill the hostages first because they took the flash as a grenade. So, if possible, try to aim the flashbang to land out of sight of the terrorists. That way they will still get distracted by noise, but won't see the flash coming, thus really giving you the 6s "window of opportunity" for you to go inside and pop them in the head. Of course, have someone that is not of the assault team to throw the flashbangs, so you can maximize the time you have for the assault. Better still, take for example the TV Station map, have someone on top in the catwalks and rain flashbangs down as the assault starts. That, by the way, is something that playing in singleplayer cannot do!

GameSpy: Do you think MGS PC will hold up well against the more FPS games on the PC like Quake III and Unreal Tournament?

Peter: It's hard to compare directly with these titles. As with the titles you mention above, MGS is a classic game. It will hold this class against any other, on any platform. It is not a twitch happy blood fest and offers users more then just endless carnage with each other. The user must use stealth, cunning and at the same time, be ready and able to tear heads when required. It is this breath of gameplay that makes MGS the classic it is. The PC version allows users on a whole new platform to experience this rich gameplay with all its enhanced graphical detail that the PC can offer.

With this in mind, playing Metal Gear Solid is truly an exercise in stealth. Your objective is to remain concealed from the enemy at all times, until it becomes absolutely necessary for you to engage the enemy to achieve your objectives. The game supports many varied modes of crawling, crouching, stiffening against walls or vertical objects and a miasma of variable viewpoints. The game does not play as a first-person shooter, rather it changes view continuously to suit a range of different situations.

Codename Eagle's mission-based play and story give it some substance that a typical FPS lacks, and task you with everything from assassinations and sabotage to rescues and spy work. Still, the competition outpaces it in nearly every category, and while the vehicles are interesting, they're unlikely to convince gamers to drop their copies of Unreal Tournament or Soldier of Fortune. Codename Eagle gives players a different look and a different story, but the action is average at best.

A one-shot, one-kill game like the Delta Force series could really use an in-game save feature. Any chance of that happening in the new game?

Yes. We've gotten a lot of requests to add an in-game save feature, so Delta Force: Land Warrior will let you save your progress anywhere and at any time during a mission. Hard-core DF players may still want to play through each mission without saving, but the feature will be there for those who want to use it.

Rainbow Six: Covert Ops is the stand-alone mission pack based on Rogue Spear's 3D engine. The two-CD set offers a combination of new maps and missions as well as a knowledge-based CD where players train to become a counter-terrorist operative.

When the tall grass is gone, how are the snipers gonna hide? will there be trees, forests, swamps?

There will certainly be trees, plus the natural cover the rolling terrain has always provided in the Delta Force games. Our designers are compensating for the loss of tall grass by making sure the terrain itself is populated with the kinds of ridges and depressions snipers love to call home.

More importantly, while the move to a 3D-required graphics engine means losing the tall grass, it also means we can dress up the battlefields with bigger, more involved 3D objects -- buildings, towers, ruins, etc. -- and a sharp-eyed player will find we've designed some sweet sniper spots into those structures.

GameSpot UK: The screenshots show an airbase with all the weather and lighting effects gradually removed. These effects are obviously important to the game.

Innerloop: To add realism we've also added fogging, rain and snow effects. Combined with lightmaps on buildings and the landscape this gives a realistic atmosphere to the game. Lightmaps give shadows in the valleys and integrate the buildings nicely into the landscape.

In Project IGI a lot of the action takes place inside buildings or in the case of one level, underground. The Terraform's portal system has allowed for complex indoors and outdoors environments to be created. A portal are defined as a door or a window. This means that the complex interiors are not drawn while the player is outside the house, therefore not stealing frame rate. Only the things visible through the windows and doors are drawn, the rest is occluded.

It’s important that the texture creates an illusion that the character-model is a lot more detailed than it actually is in the mesh and that it has a proper contrast-value. Sometimes we scale up the textures and work with in a much higher resolution, just to include the most important details as good as possible. The end result is then scaled down, as the maximum resolution for in-game textures is 256*256 pixels. When scaling down the texture the rough strokes looks highly detailed and clean. It’s also necessary to have a simple light-source on the texture; because the light-source in the game-engine will take care of the rest.

The Maximal Sound option will increase the maximum number of 3D sounds that can be played at one time. On low-end systems, this option will slow the game down a bit. If you have a very high end computer with a good sound card, performance should not be affected. Also, not all sound cards support this feature. Check your sound card manual for more information on the maximum number of sounds that can be played at a time.

The latest UK release schedule has just arrived from Take 2 Europe, with several notable changes since last month. Several key titles have slipped, with the third of the "Blair Witch" games now delayed from the end of November to early next year, and "Oni" following suit - hardly surprising given the state the game was apparently in when we saw it at ECTS recently. Caribbean dictator sim "Tropico" has been pushed back from first quarter to second quarter 2001, and "Max Payne" has been delayed yet again, this time slipping from second quarter to third quarter 2001.

Worst of all are "Hidden & Dangerous 2" and "Mafia : City Of Lost Heaven" from Illusion Softworks - both games are now due at the end of 2001 rather than the beginning of the new year. Meanwhile the PC version of the bizarre action game "MoHo" has been pushed back a month to November 24th, although flight sim "Jetfighter 4" has been brought forward a month to October 27th - now there's something you don't see very often...

I actually managed to have a play around on the jungle map and I was pretty good, certainly different to any other location I had previous played in Rogue Spear. The general landscape was heavily "polygoned" (if such a word exists!) and you were forced down certain paths by large tree trunks. What must be bushes covered the ground, although they do look like tow pieces of card slotted into each other. If this sounds negative then you are right, however bear in mind that the Rogue Spear engine was not made for extensive outdoor maps, you should see the new Delta Force: Land Warrior screenshots for an engine which does outdoor terrain superbly.

DR: Why did you decide to create a new engine for the game? Is this Delta Force totally redesigned?

WE: The primary reason was that we wanted to be able to create bigger, more impressive buildings and interior environments than the voxel-based Delta Force and Delta Force 2 graphic engines could handle, but we didn't want to ditch the long-range outdoor engagements that have become a hallmark of the series. That meant using a new, 3D-only engine.

Land Warrior is a new game in the sense that it's built on a redesigned engine that gives us some new capabilities in terms of mission design, but fans of the series can rest assured we're not turning it into another Quake clone. The emphasis will still be on realistic combat in realistic, rolling terrain, but now we also have the option of taking things indoors for some close-quarters combat.

Battlefield 1942 recreates the most famous battles of WWII in full 3D, and allows players to experience events like D-day, Iwo Jima, and El Alemien from a first person perspective.

According to Eckhart, "The first thing players will notice is the new primary weapon, the Objective Individual Combat Weapon, or OICW. It's a new weapons system that integrates a 5.56mm rifle with a 20mm grenade launcher, a laser range finder, and a video scope with thermal optics for night vision.

What enhancements will be made available for controlling soldiers from a distance? Will you be able to give orders to remote soldiers via a portable radio?

The gamer is going to have a tactical map at hand. It will enable him or her to send soldiers to more distant places using the same commands as the 3D mode. Furthermore, both views can be on at the same time. I see this as a great advantage in comparison to H&D. People will understand what the situation on the battle battlefield is and, at the same time, be able to control a selected soldier in a 3D view.

SWAT 3 uses Worldcraft 3.3. If you happen to already have it, then your ‘good to go’. We will also have a Scenario editor which will allow you to set up your own scenarios, characters, objectives, etc.. We are giving the player everything they need to create their own missions.

Hidden & Dangerous 2 has focused on a stronger sense of immersion by giving the player a central character who must be kept alive throughout the game.

Although his fellow soldiers will again be controllable and expendable, there will be RPG experience elements and veterancy will be important as missions get tougher.

Tactical maps will be far easier to use and less essential to play than previously, in a sequel that will be even more action oriented.

More vehicles will be drivable, including a mini-sub and a variety of aircraft. Tutorials will ease players into the quick-to-master control systems for these.

How different will Shrapnel: Urban Warfare 2025 be from the previous incarnations of SpecOps games?

It is set in the future and will be faster paced. There will also be vehicles that you can ride in.

Once in the mission and with controls mastered, right from the start it's clear that H&D's strength comes from its ability to create tension and atmosphere. The first mission opens our adventure on a wet and blustery night. Low visibility, a number of guards and a train will stand in your way as you try to rendezvous with some Italian resistance operatives.

Zombie and Ripcord have teamed up once again to produce Spec Ops 2: Operation Bravo, which is essentially the free expansion mission pack for SO2. Like the original formula they employed with Spec Ops: Ranger Team Bravo back in October of 1998, the design team has gone to the customers, listened to their complaints, and produced a sophisticated patch as well as offering twenty-five brand new missions and some new multiplayer game play modes. Furthermore, while the retail box (known as Platinum) will be available with all these enhancements, the patch can be downloaded for free.

However, you're not the buffed out guy you'd expect yourself to be. You can't carry a dozen weapons at once, which means you have strategic choices to make throughout the game. You start with only a few tools, and must kill enemies to procure more. Most of the weapons are based upon the weaponry of the Warsaw Pact, such as the Kalashnikov AK-47, Spas 12, T80 .556, H&K MP5SD, Glock 17, and a load of others. You'll also be given access to high-powered arms like the LAW 18, proximity mines, and fragmentation grenades.

Any game that is to be used as training "tool" for U.S. Army Land Warrior training program, and among the top ten bestsellers on every chart, should be automatically considered "as realistic as they get". Well, the game is excellent, probably the best in its genre, but as far as the realism goes, the Army is using a customized version of the Nova Logic's Delta Force 2, one that has those little untrue (read: unrealistic) aspects of the game made over. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed playing DF 2, well, the first two hours or so, but then it got kinda, well, predictable. Again, compared to other combat sims, and some of them tend to over-elaborate the tactical aspect making the game too complicated, and hence boring. DF 2 has this fine ratio of tactics and gung-ho, but it is still predictable. It didn't matter whether I tried to infiltrate quietly the enemy compound, or went in Rambo style; the outcome was usually the same. Shoot enough bad guys, and you'll probably complete the mission. Sure, there were subtle differences --- if the guards just around the corner heard you shoot, they would displace the "entire" 50 meters, but of course, they where still sitting ducks.

Battlefield 1942 recreates the most famous battles of WWII in full 3D, and allows players to experience events like D-day, Iwo Jima, and El Alemien from a first person perspective. Take to the skies in a Spitfire or Messerschmitt, or roam the high seas in a massive battleship. Make your bombing runs over enemy territory or hunt down tanks with your rocket launcher. Just remember to look out for enemy snipers and shock troops.

As a strong multiplayer game, Battlefield 1942 pits players against player as two teams struggle for tactical supremacy. The game will offer unrestricted use of fighters planes and bombers, armoured vehicles and ever warships in a first person perspective that will use every aspect of the battles of World War II.

The ECTS build of Land Warrior also added a realistic, new sniping effect. While standing, your view through the scope is unsteady, which makes it difficult to aim at longer distances. However, while crouched and prone, this effect starts to wear off, which makes sniping easier.

What's up with the grenade launchers? They're too accurate in the demo!

We've noticed a lot of people commenting on this, but the accuracy of the MM-1 40mm grenade launcher and the OICW's 20mm high-explosive rounds is a function of the character you're playing in the demo. He's the squad's Demolitions/Grenadier expert, and one of his special abilities is near-pinpoint accuracy with grenades. He can put a grenade on target just by centering the bad guy in his crosshairs; other characters will have to estimate the range and lob grenades as in the previous Delta Force games. It's also worth noting that the ranges of the 40mm and 20mm grenades are a exaggerated in the demo; they'll be reined in for the finished game.

Novalogic have finally taken note of the criticisms levelled at the game and included a hybrid of the Voxel Engine and current 3D accelerated technologies. The end result is a graphics engine that allows for large open areas as well as much more attractive indoor arenas that are quite simply very impressive. When the game was demonstrated to us we where able to view a mission set in Egypt with the pyramids as well as an Oil Rig style mission. A true indication of how good the engine is, was when climbing to the top of one of the pyramids. We where quite amazed by the distance that could be seen and the true size of the mission area.

Spec Ops is an action-oriented, real-time 3D first- and third-person game bassed on elite warfare units - with the emphasis on action and realism. Spec Ops: Platinum brings together 100 levels of intense first- and third-person military action. The Platinum Edition includes Spec Ops: Rangers Lead The Way; Spec Ops: Ranger Team Bravo; Spec Ops II: Green Berets: and the new add-on Spec Ops II: Operation Bravo. Spec Ops Platinum also includes a new strategy guide covering all 100 levels plus gameplay hints.

Question: Is Covert Ops more about what the title suggests, or is there real gaming value here? What can people expect to find in the program? How will gamers be tested? What will they take away from this program?

Perry: “The two CDs enclosed in Covert Ops integrate into the Rainbow Six series in two separate ways.

"The first is as a simple mission pack. Covert Ops has nine new missions for veterans and novices alike, ranging from simple covert operations training missions (busting a meth lab in a trailer park) to no-holds-barred RAINBOW action (tracking a downed airplane through mountainous jungle terrain under enemy fire). This is a stand-alone CD – again, I want to reiterate that the player need not have purchased Rogue Spear or Rainbow Six to play the missions.

“The second CD, however, is new to Rainbow Six and unique to the genre. The player, in the guise of a new member of Team RAINBOW, undergoes document and tactical training derived from the most accurate of real-world sources. The player will use actual military documents, executive-level briefings, and dozens of interviews with experts in the field to progress through a series of tests; success in an area earns a ribbon of achievement for the character. [more..]

As for the oil rig mission, there is not much to say except that its more of the same good stuff. You start off by parachuting onto the oil rig, similar to several missions in DF2, and run around blasting the enemy into kingdom come. As you most likely have experienced the demo, there is little point in commmenting on the speed of the software. Novalogic was using a PIII 800, 128Mb RAM and GE-Force2 to show the game off and unexpectedly the game ran incredibly smoothly.