New Anachronox Shots

Didn't Daikatana also use the Quake2 engine?

Heh, Daikatana sells for $5 in most bargin bins. It probably won't be their much longer, after spring cleaning.

Surprisingly, after all the so-so Anachronox shots, these look rather nice. Brooding, sinister - yet, I like it.

The addition of colored fog to the Q2 engine is very well-done. As updates of the open_gl-enhanced Quake 1 engine have shown, fog is the way to breath greater nuance into these old engines. Lighting is handled very well, too - seems closer to the brilliant Q1 lighting model than to Q2.

Hell, I'd buy this if it came with an option to throw out all the RPG crap and just let me use the updated Q2 engine to run old dm levels on. ;)

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/anx/Anachronox/1/042001/0420_anachronox_5.jpg

does that look like JC Denton on the right? :)(Cameo?)

The game looks a bit dated, but that is the price RPG's pay, and particularly First Person RPGs. After Deus Ex I have really high hopes for this title.

some of the screenshots on the 1st page looked like they use a voodoo 2

Heh, looks like Anachronox just snagged the title of "screenshot whore" from Tribes2.

i smell ZeroWing type writing....
http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/anx/Anachronox/2/042001/0420_anachronox_7.jpg

woah! i thought this game came out like a year ago.

all those whinning about the engine, take a look at the screenies.. teh game dont look _that_ bad.

I CARE ABOUT WHAT ENGINE!# THASNAKS YOU MARTIN FOR TELLING ME THAT IT IS QUAKE2. I PERSONALLY MYSELF CHOOSES MY OWN GAMES BASED UPON WHAT ENGINE A GAME IS MADE COMES WITH> I AM 13. LOLRMAO!

Oh come on... release a demo already

q2 engine game? lol

This game looks like shit. Poop on ION Storm!

They still haven't released this title?

-Rev.

Got a question about Tom Hall.

Back in 1985 when I was trying to figure out programming Basic on my Atari 800xl,I used to get this magazine that had tons of cool programs that you could type in yourself and use.Most of them were straight Basic and only marginally confusing,but a person named Tom Hall used to produce these very cool machine language things that were absolute TORTURE to type out.There were maybe 10 lines of code that were the data compiler bit,and the other hundred or so lines were blocks of data that needed to be copied exactly or else the machine would splort and you'd have to start alll over again. But the few I did get right,and managed to save on *shudder* cassette kicked ass for it's time. Was THAT Tom Hall and this one the same?

Kinda curious....

I remember when the visuals for this game looked fuckig rad... Now they're just average.. Oh well. Still looks pretty sweet and if the gameplay is as tom hall describes it...this game is going to own.

Maartens alive!

seriously tho there getting good results from the q2 engine, it looks pretty damn sweet all things considered.

doesn't that use the Wolf3D engine?

First post maybe?