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Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich Preview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2005-01-08 00:01:00.0


The folks over at GameSpy have fired-up a preview on Irrational Games' upcoming superhero RPG, Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich. Here's a bit on the games spiffy physics:

The benefits of the Gamebryo engines also became abundantly clear when I jumped into my first battle against super villainy. Everything you can see in the game is a real object, able to be manipulated, moved, and picked up or destroyed using much more realistic (well, comic-book realistic anyway) physics. If someone picks up a car and throws it at an enemy, the resulting bounce may take down a hanging sign, destroy a phone booth, or even knock down part of a building, injuring any innocent bystanders unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity. During my first battle against Entropy (the game's main villain), my super team ended up demolishing an entire city block. Sometimes it was even an accident. Fortunately, the "Prestige" penalties for urban destruction aren't as severe as they were in the first game. Somebody at Irrational must have realized that knocking down buildings should be part of every superhero game.


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