2005 highlights in SANTA CRUZ 2005 highlights SANTA CRUZ

2005 highlights in SANTA CRUZ

2005 highlights SANTA CRUZ

2005 highlights in SANTA CRUZ.In 2005 the show was dominated by news about the nextgeneration of game consoles, which certainly do look impressive without price tags.
As far as online play is concerned, we know xbox 360 will have more xbox live.
The word is that you will be able to download and play games dating all the way back to the nes.
The consensus on both the nintendo revolution and the ps3 is that, at this stage, they are largely smoke and mirrors.
There is still plenty of room for surprizes on the console front over the next six months.
Compared to last year, pc games barely made it onto the radar.
Nevertheless, the pc platform is still the center of the universe for most online gamers, and there are a number of titles on the way that will cater specifically to this crowd.
Battlefield 2 now very close to release, battlefield 2 is poised to be one of the most popular shooters of the year.
Expect plenty of modern day vehicular warfare, impressive graphics and physics, scaleable maps, integrated voice chat, and a command position on each side to give the action some depth.
I had heard rumors that they were going to support more players, but the number on the official site is 64.
Look forward to jumping into battlefield 2 as early as this summer.
Enemy territory: quake wars splash damage has been working on the next enemy territory game for a couple years now.
Oddly enough, it will be set in the quake universe, before the time of quake 2, and it will pit humans against the alien strogg invasion.
An assortment of hightech combat vehicles will be available, along with some maps large enough to make use of them.
They intend to focus on the same objectivebased multiplayer gameplay of earlier enemy territory games.
Tactica online set in europe during the late renaissance, tactica online aims to be a turnbased, multiplayer, persistent world, strategy game.
Rather than a single character, you will control a squad of characters which you can tailor to your liking.
No ai mobs to grind through here, all the action takes place against other players.
It looks like there will be options for team play and guild support.
We could be witnessing the birth of an entirely new genre.
Stay tuned for the beta which should start later this year.