There's a new Slave Zero preview on Computer Games Online with an extensive look at this upcoming third-person game where you can live large as a giant cyborg. Thanks Apache at Computer Gaming Review. Here is a bit from the piece about the game, and its Ecstasy engine:

To match its dark, foreboding story, the environments of the Megacity are vast, dark, highly populated and incredibly violent. As Slave Zero, you'll be put through firefight after firefight and if the action shown off in the pre-alpha is any indication, then saying this game will have wall-to-wall action is something of an understatement. The power behind all this mass carnage is the game's 3D engine, dubbed the Ecstasy Engine, which does a lot more then just make pretty lighting.

The Ecstasy Engine was made specifically for Slave Zero, but one of Accolade's big goals for the engine was to create a technology that could be used for future products. "The main features of the engine are its ability to animate many objects in the world, provide a lot of interactivity in the world, no restriction (from a technical sense) on size of the world or world layout, and a tools chain that allows designers and artists to create and modify the game easily," Matt Powers, Slave Zero's Producer, explains. "The goal of Slave Zero and the Ecstasy Engine was to create a large, populated and animated interactive environment, and to have a lot of action on screen at the same time."