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Tex Atomic Gone Gold

by Maarten Goldstein, May 03, 2001 7:25am PDT

Related Topics – Gone Gold, Games: PC, Monolith

The Adrenaline Vault has the news that Monolith's Tex Atomic's Big Bot Battles has been finished. This is not a retail game, but rather will be offered by Real.com in their RealArcade program later this month. While the first screenshots looked like they were gonna use colored lighting in a bad, bad way the latest screenshots that AVault has dont look all bad. So what is the game all about?

Tex Atomic's Big Bot Battles, gamers strap into giant fighting robots and compete in a lunatic combination of monster rig rallies, pro wrestling and conventional warfare. Gamers can customize their bot's chassis, weight, weapons and power generator before attempting the solo campaign against the computer or competing in one of four online game modes: Atomic Battleball, Tex's Space Race, Galactic Domination or BattleBrawl. Features include a total of nine fighting robots in three weight classes, ten futuristic weapons, and 13 outer space arenas. ...

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The screenshots are borked. I can't view a fullscreen shot of the GIANT COMMUNIST ROBOT!
What gives?

-Rev.

May 03, 2001 12:41pm PDT

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  - There has never been a blueprint for the tyrrany of the proletariat. : xvdl
- maybe thats the resolution they were taken im ;) : elosorojo

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Avoid anything involving Realplay. If you have it installed and ctrl-alt-delete,you'll see it running in the background,even though you've restarted a dozen times and haven't used Realplayer in weeks.

What's it doing there?!? Inquiring minds wanna know...

May 03, 2001 7:58am PDT

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Avoid anything involving Realplay. If you have it installed and ctrl-alt-delete,you'll see it running in ... : TheDreamDragon
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  it's just the tray icon; somewhere in the settings, uncheck the box that says "Load StartCenter at start... : the archvile
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      yeah thats their little thing that checks for "news". basically wastes your cpu cylces and network conn... : eghartman
      
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any game that showcases giant communist robots is a good game in my book!
even if its stinky Real Player >:(

May 03, 2001 2:30pm PDT

any game that showcases giant communist robots is a good game in my book! even if its stinky Real Player : sexninja!!!!

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Ok...where is GIANTCOMMUNIST ROBOT?

May 03, 2001 7:39am PDT

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Ok...where is GIANTCOMMUNIST ROBOT? : madgrad
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- THIS GAME IS REVOLUTION, COMRADES!! : GiantCommunistROBOT

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Hey, Vantage! Where's your kick-ass character?

May 03, 2001 2:22pm PDT

Hey, Vantage! Where's your kick-ass character? : lurker^2

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Every screen I have seen of this game looks like my dog ate a box of crayons, and then puked it up on my monitor.

May 03, 2001 11:43am PDT

Every screen I have seen of this game looks like my dog ate a box of crayons, and then puked it up on my ... : x-eyd|mary

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What's the big shit avout real?

Probably going to d/l the game when it comes out

May 03, 2001 11:16am PDT

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What's the big shit avout real? Probably going to d/l the game when it comes out : Nemo_NX
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- "avout" = about. God what I would pay to have a spell checker right now. :( s{Clue to Steve on how ... : Nemo_NX

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Oh yeah!! Gone Gold baby!! Ya'll better buy this game or I'ma gonna kick yer shiny metal asses!!!

I still can't believe I registered this account...

May 03, 2001 11:22am PDT

Oh yeah!! Gone Gold baby!! Ya'll better buy this game or I'ma gonna kick yer shiny metal asses!!! I s : Tex Atomic

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Gah no one download it! Its from real networks man! These guys are trying to kill mp3 and make you listen to real audio!

May 03, 2001 10:07am PDT

Gah no one download it! Its from real networks man! These guys are trying to kill mp3 and make you liste... : eghartman

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Hrm...this game looks interesting I suppose. If not for the gameplay and graphics than for the public reaction to it. Serious Sam took off because it was a cheap game that was highly entertaining, and this game, I would think, would be cheap as well, and looks like it'd be entertaining (bright flashy colors and robots), only difference is it's being distributed online only (something I think should be a standard in today's broadband age), and we'll see how much of that Deer Hunter and Barbie Fashion Designer crowd actually shops online...

*scratches chin*

May 03, 2001 9:47am PDT

Hrm...this game looks interesting I suppose. If not for the gameplay and graphics than for the public re... : wunderbred

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- Epic used to be a firm believer in that as well; remember the sub-100 poly player models in Unreal, and ... : the archvile

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Waiting for the demo, personally... at 5 MB I don't think any of us has an excuse not to try it

May 03, 2001 9:14am PDT

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Man this game was dead before it even came out.

May 03, 2001 8:46am PDT

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I'd pay/download it... if I didn't have to have any Real shitware on my computer as a result. Fat chance of that though. Sorry Monolith, your online distro stuff is a good idea, but forcing me to take Real in the ass is decidedly NOT. If it were just billboards in the game I could ignore those, but come ON...

May 03, 2001 9:15am PDT

I'd pay/download it... if I didn't have to have any Real shitware on my computer as a result. Fat chance ... : three-d

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REAL = SUCK

May 03, 2001 9:04am PDT

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- agreed. I just installed RealPlayer8, and it took me 7 minutes to get rid of all the crap. And it's st... : the archvile

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- my main reason for abandoning NOLF was because the controls kept sticking due to the input code. And Mo... : the archvile

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tee-hee. stomped is reporting that "Tex Atomic's Big Pocket Rocket" has gone gold.

May 03, 2001 7:39am PDT

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tee-hee. stomped is reporting that "Tex Atomic's Big Pocket Rocket" has gone gold. : jet-poop
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- yeah that got a chuckle out of me :) : Maarten Goldstein

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this game was the birth of GIANT COMMUNIST ROBOT :)

so since this game isnt retail, is it going to be downloadable like a large demo?
it dosent look like it, it looks like a crossbetween battle.net, gamespy, and mplayer
i try to stay away from real.com, if i was starving and real.com was the only place in the world that had food, i'd go eat my lawn

May 03, 2001 7:49am PDT

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    - yes, i've noticed the democracy system in the US makes people nauseous. =) : Becoming

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i really dont care ... anyone else like this?

May 03, 2001 8:20am PDT

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- no, I don't really care about this either. : the archvile
- not me. sorry. : Quagmire

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Man such a strange name. You know, I actually want this game to be good, but it just seems to look like the Unreal engine with Day Glo colors ...

May 03, 2001 8:09am PDT

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I might buy that if it was a stand alone game. But given any association with Real.com, it's got a skank on it I won't get near.

May 03, 2001 7:36am PDT

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- men! I absolutely hate Real Networks. They are the worst company evar! : dorker

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I saw the title and got all excited that there was a New Tex Murphy game. Boy I was dissapointed.

May 03, 2001 7:37am PDT

I saw the title and got all excited that there was a New Tex Murphy game. Boy I was dissapointed. : baron calamity

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Hey, that screen shot thumbnail is linked to SHUGASHACK.

May 03, 2001 7:34am PDT

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- hm, i'll be damned :) : Maarten Goldstein

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For some reason, I think this game will be fun!

May 03, 2001 7:32am PDT

For some reason, I think this game will be fun! : butch_toenail

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at least monolith gets them out on time

May 03, 2001 7:28am PDT

at least monolith gets them out on time : xvdl

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close :(

ehhe

May 03, 2001 7:27am PDT

close :( ehhe : Spezzer

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now THIS.. is a first post.

May 03, 2001 7:26am PDT

now THIS.. is a first post. : haiku

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