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 Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 02:22 Post subject: |
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Didn't Xatrix go bankrupt?
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 02:36 Post subject: |
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according to IGN the developer was never chosen, interplay was publishing, or did they go bankrupt too. I just installed the first one (never got very far) again. Game is effin hard.
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 02:46 Post subject: |
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Ah well, it's a brilliant game, albeit a bit unrealistic, it still stands out as an sentimental gaming value for me.
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 02:48 Post subject: |
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Ya, first game to be banned on the shelves of stores here in the states. Reading wiki it seems it was canceled.
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Kingpin would prove to be Xatrix's last game; on the day that Kingpin shipped, Xatrix Entertainment ceased to exist. Many of their team however, would reform later to create Gray Matter Interactive Studios.
A sequel to the game went in production in Interplay in 2005. Work got as far as creating a playable demo version of a level, but after a string of disastrous decisions of the company's CEO, the project was canceled and soon afterwards, Interplay itself practically collapsed. |
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 02:52 Post subject: |
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stupid ceo's they really are nobbers. Are gray matter still around? didnt they do the mutliplayer version of rtcw.
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 03:02 Post subject: |
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thompa
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 03:37 Post subject: |
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Kingpin was great. I remember buying it in Denmark, and playing it as hell when I got home.
The ending was also a nice touch.
Har knullat med Anne Frank.
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 09:22 Post subject: |
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yea.. was a game that came earlyer to it's time..graphic was great and gameplay was kinda strange and intresting.
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 09:39 Post subject: |
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The strangest game that went ahead of its time (apart from Trespasser), a true neglescted masterpiece was Strife - a Doom-engine based first-person RPG & shooter like Elder Scrolls. You could get quests from NPCs, buy and sell stuff, there was a good plot and dialogs. And an open world (!).
here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strife_(game)
screens: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/strife/screenshots
And it can be found on some oldies sites (you know, abandonware etc.) and run using Zdoom.
"Only one country can destroy NATO in 40 minutes - it's Russia"
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 10:00 Post subject: |
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I hope it stays dead. Activision picked up soldier of fortune and completly ruined it
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 10:26 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | I hope it stays dead. Activision picked up soldier of fortune and completly ruined it |
haha rofl..if that's gonna be the case..i am with you. |
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wawrzul
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 10:38 Post subject: |
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Finished it 2 times. I admit it is a hard one, especially in the beginning where you often have to hide. But once you got all the guns & ammo, they can suck your shotgun barrel. Maybe except the bosses - blanco was hard, the biatch too and so was the kingpin himself.
The music by Cypress Hill is fucking amazing. Also the dialogues are AWESOME - "what's the count" and all the yelling. The atmosphere of slums is great too.
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wawrzul
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ThOMaZ
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Nov 2007 19:04 Post subject: |
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Had no idea they were once talking about a sequel. Finished the game again a couple of months ago. Graphics got seriously outdated but the game is still awesome
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Nov 2007 19:05 Post subject: |
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Sequel was planned back in 2004, not heard a thing about it since. Guess it's canceled
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Nov 2007 19:19 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | I hope it stays dead. Activision picked up soldier of fortune and completly ruined it |
what, you dont want activision value to make Kingpin Payback for consoles and pc? |
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wawrzul
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Nov 2007 13:16 Post subject: |
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| LeoNatan wrote: | | SpykeZ wrote: | | I hope it stays dead. Activision picked up soldier of fortune and completly ruined it |
what, you dont want activision value to make Kingpin Payback for consoles and pc? |
YES
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 06:27 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | Ya, first game to be banned on the shelves of stores here in the states. |
"Banned" is completely the wrong word to use. Some stores refused to sell it, and that's fine; all stores have the right to choose what they want to sell, and what they don't want to sell.
Nothing is "banned" in the United States. And furthermore, Kingpin was hardly the first game that any store chose not to sell. Jeez...
| SpykeZ wrote: | | I hope it stays dead. Activision picked up soldier of fortune and completly ruined it |
Activision has always been the publisher for the SoF series...
| MasterJuba wrote: | | Are gray matter still around? didnt they do the mutliplayer version of rtcw. |
Gray Matter (which was actually Xatrix, just with a new name) was bought by Activision back in 2002, and they've since been merged into Treyarch. A lot of the former Gray Matter employees within Treyarch specifically worked on Call of Duty 2: Big Red One. Treyarch is now making the new James Bond games which Activision will be publishing, so it's a safe bet that that's what the old GM employees are up to these days.
Oh, and GM did the single-player of RTCW. The MP was by Nerve Software (who recently have done the Doom 3 expansion, the port of Doom to XBLA, and the Xbox 360 port of Quake Wars). And of course, Wolf ET was by Splash Damage.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 07:28 Post subject: |
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| Cedge wrote: |
| SpykeZ wrote: | | I hope it stays dead. Activision picked up soldier of fortune and completly ruined it |
Activision has always been the publisher for the SoF series...
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Doesn't matter if they published or not. They developed the shitty 3rd one. Raven was the dev of the first two. |
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 07:37 Post subject: |
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What happened to Raven Software anyway?
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 08:29 Post subject: |
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Aw... I remember that I only played Marvel Ultimate Alliance for perhaps 7 minutes and then quit and uninstalled it, pretty crappy game... pity about the artist too.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 08:30 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | Doesn't matter if they published or not. They developed the shitty 3rd one. Raven was the dev of the first two. |
No, Cauldron did. Activision doesn't really have any internal development capability anymore, save for a few teams that do some budget and children's titles.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 08:36 Post subject: |
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I'd say that SoF3 is something way worse than budget.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 13:27 Post subject: |
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Come on don't kick Cauldron in the nutz , they did a pretty good job for a valusoft game maker , show me a valusoft game that looks the same like this hmmm
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