Ritual's CZ Preview

[Keisuke Takahashi]

the ct looks kinda deformed

[gobd]

I sense another 1 year delay since it has been handed off to a new developer, and a month before this dev gets the game done I except it handed to another dev who will then delay it another year.



Yes, what you see here is an endless cycles of delays just to annoy everyone, i think its a great master plan :)



Or they want 99,000,000,000 great reviews so the game is so fricken hyped there is no way for it to fail.



I myself think the top option has more truth to it

[FAF]

Preparing to cancel my CS:CZ pre-order. This is just becoming too much BS for us to stand IMHO. Funnily enough, the only game I really enjoy apart from CS is Tony Hawk's, so I was looking forward to a linear game, with the added value of T.H. style levels; going back through without reloading etc. From the look of all the preview videos, there were a lot of good looking levels too. Now all we have to look forward to is a single player game that a 12 year old noob could finish in his first sitting. I can picture that many average CS players will be finishing this "new" CZ in a weekend. It's about time that Valve/Gearbox/whoever stopped worrying so much about getting it spot on first time and just released something for us to play with. Heck, we all put up with a lot of crap in the first betas of CS, I don't mind having the same with CZ....

[|cyborg|]

the two screenies definatly look good.

[pags]

I'm am incredibly UNINTRESTED in CS:CZ. I do like that linear thing is a little better than tonyhawk gameplay, but it can't be short and easy to beat. This new VGUI menu thing must mean that steam cs 1.6 will be delayed as well. Counter-Strike and it's future life seem grim :/ CS:CZ is dying off. I really wish that gearbox didn't give up the project because I really liked gearbox's stuff. I don't think I will get cz, and if I do, I don't think I would like it as much as if gearbox made it. Sorry! I really dislike gearbox >

[kaxman]

Dunno, I certainly only played FFX once, but I still thought it was better than most excellent novels I've ever read. It was about as linear as you could get and still call a game an RPG, but if you took it more like a story it was fantastic. On the other hand, I've played through Fallout 2 about a dozen times, every time getting a very different experience. I've played through Deus Ex several times, and probably still not seen everything.



But rizzuh is right, you see. It doesn't matter. The single-player can be as linear as it wants as long as it is well done and immersive. All of the replay value you could ever want will be found online.

[Dangki]

That knife on the guys uniform looks a little dangerous, if he ever looks over his right shoulder he could have his eye out. I prefer the look of the Gearbox player models.



Has the Podbot guy been "sacked" from CS:CZ?

[MikeJ]

FAF wrote..

Preparing to cancel my CS:CZ pre-order. This is just becoming too much BS for us to stand IMHO.

You said what I was going to say.

Cancelled Items



Items Price



1 of: Counterstrike: Condition Zero [CD-ROM]

Sierra $0.00

Done and done. I'll re order it if it ever comes out.

[Dangki]

I assume the game is 'linear' in the same way that Rainbow 6 and SWAT3 are with an storyline that overlaps the mssion linking them all together?

[MikeJ]

Yes, I don't think it's going to be final fantasy with Aks.

[oReiLLZ]

Ooh, think of the possibilities! Turn based gun-fights! "Aiming" potions! Bliss!

[Simplex]

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I don't know why I'm thinking of this, but the ct shot you have looks like they took a ninja and threw some Kevlar, a side arm, weapon and helmet on. Anyone else agree?

[Dangki]

I don't know but it does look a bit crappy compared to the gearbox models, current CS models and most custom models. Maybe the article was faked thats why Gamespy took it down?

I can't look at that screeny without thinking how dangerous that knife placement is. It had better not bein the final release of the game as I just wouldn't be able to concentrate. I hate little things like that that haven't been fully thought through.

[puffycloud]

Simplex wrote..

I don't know why I'm thinking of this, but the ct shot you have looks like they took a ninja and threw some Kevlar, a side arm, weapon and helmet on. Anyone else agree?

Apparently you've never looked at the GIGN.

[Dangki]

It says on Gamespy that the preview will be up tommorow.

Tommorow being Friday.