Tactical Ops: Crossfire Interview and XIII Review

Tactical Ops:Crossfire Interview: I just interviewed my long time friend Petterf regarding the upcoming Tactical Ops: Crossfire release. TO:C is the free mod for UT2004, an updated of the original mod for UT99 which was the most popular mod for Unreal. Of course, the prerelease begins today (see April 2 news below), with the server version being released, as well as a client encrypted with a password– the password will be released in one week (Apr 28), so that servers will be up, running, and populated from minute one. Petterf is the official Mac member of the TO:C team, but I also know him from his earlier roles as TO:AoT [rm] server admin, and an official Mac betatester for UT2004, the original TO and TO:AoT, as well as for TOST. Petter also gave us some exclusive screenshots, and Province looks very nice indeed. Check it out here.

XIII Review: Our reviews editor just finished up his review of Feral Interactive’s XIII. Now I saw this game before on a Feral preview disk, and it was beautiful– it’s a FPS based on the Unreal engine, but omg, it’s beautiful with severe tweaking of the engine which results in beautifully cel-shaded (think comic) graphics. They did a great job on this, much better than that old Robin Hood cartoon mod. You’ll see comic panel headshots, and POW! hit damage, and the like. The thing is, now I want to buy this game, after reading his review. The storyline is apparently Robert Ludlum-esque, with the conspiracy theories ratcheting up a notch at every step, and of course, you wake up with a loss of memory and the world after you. Check out the review here.

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