Universal Combat: Hostile Intent [Oct 04, 2004, 10:07 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The Universal Combat:
Hostile Intent Product Page has details on this
newly announced
installment in 3000 AD's Universal Combat/Battlecruiser series, due fourth
quarter of this year. There is an article on the announcement on
The
Adrenaline Vault that offers some screenshots and movies from the project,
which they describe like this: "The game is based on the new engine technology
being used in next year's Universal Combat: Hold The Line, which will provide
vastly improved graphics than those seen in Universal Combat. According to 3000
AD, Hostile Intent will be purely combat focused, with most of the complexity
and micromanagement normally associated with their games removed."
Does this mean he didn't get the rights to the game (whichever it was - Freespace maybe?) that he wanted to?
I bloody well hope so. Every plan he mentioned in his ambitions for that game went directly against what you'd expect from a Freespace game (ground combat? When the main enemy doesn't even try to capture planets but just blows the hell out of them?).
One of the Volition employees indirectly posted a message on HLP stating that he doubted that DS could even afford the license, and also pretty strongly hinting DS wouldn't have any support - i.e. storylining - from the original developers if he did.
Of course, DS also said this stunning(?!) new engine would allow him to an FS3 for a quarter of FS2s budget and in about 6 months.....just a shame it already looks about 2 years out of date (seriously, Flashpoint still looks better than those screenshots - at least it had more than a single cube-building set in a few square miles of low-res textured flat ground)
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