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The overall presentation for Battlefield also helps to add to the war-torn atmosphere. Graphics are just about Medal of Honor-quality, which is extremely impressive considering there can be up to 64 players in one game, where MoH only allowed 32. Every vehicle is expertly constructed, with a true attention to detail. True war buffs will be impressed with the wing alignment of the Corsair and the low riding nature of the Panzer IV. The physics of each vehicle feels impressively realistic as well, so while you won't be able to pull off triple flips in your APC, you'll still be able to feel like you're in control of a massively destructive ton of metal. Environments also get a special touch, with the cramped ruins of Stalingrad or the sandy expanses of North Africa being recreated in fully three-dimensional glory.

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The big deal with this game is its focus on guerilla warfare, and how to properly manage it. [...] With Resistance, you have no such cushion. Since your team is extremely limited and ammo is scarce (at best), you are required to lose as few men as possible - and to make every single bullet count. Of course, in war there are always casualties, but you have to plan for contingencies while knowing there will be few reinforcements - if there are any at all.

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Sent behind enemy lines, or scouting in front of a column of allied armoured vehicles, you and your boys are generally placed into the mouth of hell with only a selection of weaponry and explosives to help you. Each of your group has their own special skills; and although another one of your boys could pick up the sniper rifle, Foley is the undoubted king of the head shot. Jones is your demolition expert and Bradley your fearless leader; joined by Connor. Although this is the line-up you start with, our heroes are not immortal. Each has a health bar, and if that reaches zero, then `man down`. The health bar becomes a flashing red line, which quickly counts down to zero. You need to get to them with medical aid (presuming you have any medi-kits left) before it`s gone; otherwise you`ve lost them for the rest of the mission and the rest of the game.

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HomeLAN - What are the levels and environments like in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?

Oleg V. Javorsky - The game provides spacious levels sized 1x1 kilometer in average. The 15 game levels planned will combine both indoor and huge outdoor areas into the 20 square kilometers of the Zone. The territory of the Zone is made of boisterous greenery, woods, marshes, neglected roads, vehicles, villages, factories to make it a very murky and atmospheric place to be. We took two trips to the very Chernobyl zone, and about 60% of game architecture will be a real reconstruction. Special sites like Dead Forest, cities of Pripyat’ and Chernobyl, as well as the notorious atomic plant power will be featured.

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As in the past, the experience isn't just limited to single player. You'll have plenty of multiplayer fun to keep you going as well. With all of the mission maps and more specifically designed multiplayer maps, there should be plenty of fun to be had. Especially with the new multiplayer mission types. Three new types have been added at this point to give some renewed interest. We spent some time the new defend mode today where you and your friends can team up in defense of an area of the map. You'll see wave after wave of enemy units attacking your area. If you ever leave the area and the enemy manages to hold the area when you aren't there, you'll lose the mission.

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You've played the single and multiplayer demos and can't get enough. Now you'll be able to experience all the fury of World War II battle as Battlefield 1942 for PC-CD arrives at retailers nationwide on Saturday, September 14, 2002.

The complete game will feature 35 machines of war in 16 detailed maps from WWII's well-known battles: Kursk, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Midway and more. Each of the maps will highlight a full range of war machines from heavy armored vehicles to high-flying bombing runs to deep-sea submarines.

So suit up and get ready for action, Battlefield 1942 arrives on U.S. shores next weekend... will you be ready for battle?

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From an artist's standpoint, this technology FINALLY gives us the ability to put more detail into our decorations -- more detail into the objects that add flavor to the game. So say goodbye to the days of going into a building that is sparsely decorated with a table and a couple of crates. We can now decorate to our heart's content.

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The addition of sniper rifles in some levels adds a new depth to them. For example, one of my favorite levels, Insurgent Camp, is an almost completely new level because of snipers. No longer can the assault team stand in the open by their starting point. And now the defense team is really forced to stay indoors, at least until the enemy sniper is shot.

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The missions are well scripted and it is evident that some thought has been put into them. Twists in mission plans, surprises, and some good old time firefights are all present. The difficulty has also been elevated to a more realistic level, this time round, you are fighting an entire army with your small group of soldiers. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself restarting the mission again and again. I know I did.

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The demo will feature one multiplayer level and includes day and night settings. The demo will be playable over the NovaWorld Games Network and via LAN. Other features in the demo include:
· Night vision.
· Players can play as medics.
· Humvees drive around the map on a fixed course. Players can board the Humvees and use the .50 cal machine guns against the opposing team.
· Progressive Spawn Points - Players can "capture" neutral spawn points to add additional spawn locations.
· Players can lean around corners to look and shoot.
· Frag grenades.
· Grenade launchers (fixed weapon emplacements).
· New weapon ballistics.

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Whatever he's doing though, Sam conducts all of his operations in a slickly animated manner, stalking about rooms and corridors in the shadows with complete silence. The brilliant motion effects don't stop at Sam, either - they extend from the game's other characters right down to pieces of paper caught in the breeze and birds flapping about in a tree outside the window, moonlight casting their shadows onto the floor.