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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? ![]() |
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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 |
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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... |
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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.
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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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Ahh The One was/is so good !!!! Love that magazine !!
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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 ![]() |
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Ta for the info Shatterhand! That era of The One was undoubtedly their finest hour.
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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.
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