The mysterious THREE-Player Chaos Engine.

MethodGit · 30 October 2003, 00:23

Believe it or not, I was watching today's episode of Gamesmaster on Challenge, and after the reviews they ran a short feature on the "forthcoming new game" known as The Chaos Engine. But you should've seen the look on my face when they ran the actual game footage.

It turns out that the chaps we call The Bitmap Brothers were originally going to make it a simultaneous three-player shootfest. :eek :eek :eek This would clearly mean more firepower on screen at once, and no doubt it would've generally kicked behind and joined the list of fellow past three-player fests. But we were later handed a downgraded two-player edition. Wonder what happened during the production that shattered the triple-character dream?

kametyken · 30 October 2003, 14:35

Getting this beta would be indeed interesting,...

...but personally I don't miss the third character in the game and a 3-players-on-screen-mode would be practical neither in single- nor in multiplayer mode.
I still hope one day we'll see a network version of CE with deathmatch, CTF and domination modes.:eek

cebulba · 03 November 2003, 23:01

well...

I just read in the last issue of a German game magazine "PC GAMES" that the BITMAP Brothers indeed are working on a network/multiplayer online version of CHAOS ENGINE...

7-Zark-7 · 05 November 2003, 06:19

I'd have to chase up my old copies of The One for the WIP of the original game to see if there's a mention of this, but if so,I'd suspect it,(3 players),would probably have had to have been dropped on technical grounds more than anything.

Shatterhand · 06 November 2003, 04:37

taken straigthly from the WIP from The One, October 1992 issue.

"On each level, the two heroes (there were originally supposed to be three players on-screen, but the third man was abandoned after early tests found him to be superfluous to the action and downright impractical)"

kriz · 06 November 2003, 13:26

Ahh The One was/is so good !!!! Love that magazine !!

Antiriad · 06 November 2003, 14:50

Would love to try a three player Chaos Engine.

Does anyone know if their online version will be *spit* in 3d?
I fookin hope not

7-Zark-7 · 06 November 2003, 15:46

Ta for the info Shatterhand! That era of The One was undoubtedly their finest hour.

Akira · 06 November 2003, 16:24

Quote:

Originally posted by Antiriad
\Does anyone know if their online version will be *spit* in 3d?
I fookin hope not

Don't be naive my friend. It will obviously be in 3D.

MethodGit · 20 November 2003, 01:04

Saw the episode again today and am starting to think that maybe the version shown on GM was a slightly different version to the one highlighted in kametyken's pic - the status panel, although showing three players, looked a bit more like the final status panel than the other versh.

30 October 2003, 00:23	#1
MethodGit Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Streets Age: 29 Posts: 2,579	The mysterious THREE-Player Chaos Engine. Believe it or not, I was watching today's episode of Gamesmaster on Challenge, and after the reviews they ran a short feature on the "forthcoming new game" known as The Chaos Engine. But you should've seen the look on my face when they ran the actual game footage. It turns out that the chaps we call The Bitmap Brothers were originally going to make it a simultaneous three-player shootfest. :eek :eek :eek This would clearly mean more firepower on screen at once, and no doubt it would've generally kicked behind and joined the list of fellow past three-player fests. But we were later handed a downgraded two-player edition. Wonder what happened during the production that shattered the triple-character dream? __________________ Meh.

30 October 2003, 14:35	#2
kametyken Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Rugia Island/Germany Age: 43 Posts: 70	Getting this beta would be indeed interesting,... ...but personally I don't miss the third character in the game and a 3-players-on-screen-mode would be practical neither in single- nor in multiplayer mode. I still hope one day we'll see a network version of CE with deathmatch, CTF and domination modes.:eek __________________ gods-country.de (out of service) The Bitmap Brothers Tribute

20 November 2003, 01:04	#10
MethodGit Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Streets Age: 29 Posts: 2,579	Saw the episode again today and am starting to think that maybe the version shown on GM was a slightly different version to the one highlighted in kametyken's pic - the status panel, although showing three players, looked a bit more like the final status panel than the other versh. __________________ Meh.

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Shatterhand Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Brazil Age: 30 Posts: 1,637	taken straigthly from the WIP from The One, October 1992 issue. "On each level, the two heroes (there were originally supposed to be three players on-screen, but the third man was abandoned after early tests found him to be superfluous to the action and downright impractical)"

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7-Zark-7 Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Brisbane/Australia Posts: 1,237	Ta for the info Shatterhand! That era of The One was undoubtedly their finest hour.

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