Re: Perhaps Marathon 2?

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Re: Perhaps Marathon 2?

Posted By: Wail of Suicide
Date: 2007.8.23.00.42

In Response To: Re: Perhaps Marathon 2? (Dave Lister)

Not for Unreal Tournament.
More modern engines with decent support for natural terrain could handle making Marathon 2 environments pretty easily, but there's a huge amount of asset creation that would be involved in getting anything like that to the point of level creation (and there's a lot more detail work in general that goes into a level -- but terrains would be pretty straightforward).
I'll add that I'd prefer to see a more interpretive approach taken if someone were going to do Marathon projects in any modern engine at this point in time -- There's a lot of scripted sequence stuff that you can do that wasn't available when the original maps were made. A lot of the story could be preserved, but there's a lot that could be done to make it a more immersive and coherent experience.

Messages In This Thread

Perhaps Marathon 2? -- Hawkeyefile -- 2007.8.20.02.34
- Re: Perhaps Marathon 2? -- Dave Lister -- 2007.8.21.07.36
  - Re: Perhaps Marathon 2? -- Wail of Suicide -- 2007.8.23.00.42

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