No, it’s not a new Wing Commander or Privateer‘s second coming.
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With my game, I want PC gamers to stand up, be counted and get excited again about all the great experiences their computer can deliver. But the PC is still incredibly capable of presenting an experience that doesn’t take a back seat to any other platform out there, including consoles. There is a lot of noise out there regarding social and mobile games right now, and I think PC gamers are feeling a little left out of the mix. “I plan on bringing that kind of development mentality back into PC gaming and space sims in particular.”Īnd then he paints Star Citizen as a kind of wake-up call to a world currently infatuated with social-mobile:
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“In recent years, game designers have stopped innovating and pushing the boundaries of what you can do in this genre,” says Roberts. That decade was instead spent producing Hollywood movies like The Punisher, Lord of War and Lucky Number Slevin.īut no, he means the PC in its traditional sense, that platform-of-platforms competitors like Steve Jobs enjoyed referring to in the past tense after tablets like the iPad hit the scene. He hasn’t done anything in gaming-dom for over a decade. I assumed Roberts was being self-referential.
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“They said I was dead,” reads the text-tease as the trailer opens. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot.īut a space game unabashedly calling itself a “sim,” as in “simulation”? Isn’t that 2012-casual-gaming-speak for “suicidal”?
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I have no idea what kind of tricked-out hardware it’s running on or how many GPUs it’s tapping, but it’s kind of startling to watch - a brilliantly choreographed sizzle reel that’s a little like seeing the cinematographic ballet between the USS Kelvin and Narada at the outset of J.J. It looks like footage from a missing episode of Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica, maybe even better, with bright, reflective colors striped on blade-like fighters and inside cockpits, ridiculously ornate capital ships dressed with all the moving parts and crevices and bulky bay doors you’d expect, and the whole shebang rendered 100% in-engine (for wonks, you’re looking at Crytek’s CryEngine 3).
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( MORE: Maine Republican Party: Playing World of Warcraft Makes You Unfit for Office)īefore we proceed, have a look at the trailer for the game, dubbed Star Cruiser, and be sure to crank it up to 1080p with the “quality” wheel if you can. Roberts confirmed as much at GDC Online in Austin, Texas on Wednesday. Follow one expects the Spanish Inquisition, much less Wing Commander maharishi Chris Roberts to emerge from the ether and demo a space sim that looks like something you’d conjure on a Pixar Renderfarm, least of all one that’s PC-exclusive.īut - and listen up, anyone who fondly remembers stuff like “Kilrathi” and “Dreadnought” and “Tiger’s Claw” - that’s exactly what’s happening.