Comments on: Making Of: Hostile Waters

By: luvin-hw

luvin-hw — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:25:44 +0000

*Right-click the shortcut to HW. Make a COPY of the shortcut.
*Right-click the copy of the second shortcut, select PROPERTIES. You should be
looking at the “Target” box. It should say something like “C:\Program
Files\Interplay\Rage\Hostile Waters\HW.EXE”
*You add a space AFTER the end quote, then add the whole parameter
-setusupthebomb
“C:\Program
Files\Interplay\Rage\Hostile Waters\HW.EXE” setusupthebomb

By: Smirnoff

Smirnoff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:16:20 +0000

A shame to see another year and a half gone and still no leaked MP patch or sequel. HW is a fantastic game, even now it looks ok, plays and sounds fantastic and has a nice balance of difficulty, I would love to see this updated graphically with some new missions, equipment and maybe even vehicles, but mostly it needs the multiplayer (co-op and versus modes).

By: Hostile Waters Retrospective at Resolution « Wordcore

Hostile Waters Retrospective at Resolution « Wordcore — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:05:37 +0000

[...] Things have been a bit quiet on the games front for me lately, besides playing more of the Heroes of Newerth beta and planning my article on it and other Defence of the Ancients-inspired games for The Game Reviews. Something I’ve had festering for a little while has seen publication today though – I’ve put together a retrospective of one of my favourite games, Hostile Waters, which is waiting patiently for you at Resolution. It’s one of those overlooked classics, doomed to relative obcurity by various unlucky occurrences around its release in 2001. It’s still fairly widely available on budget, mind, so if you like the sound of this great hybrid strategy game, it shouldn’t be too tricky to track it down. Also, if you’d like to read some more about its intriguing development, those kindly men at Rock Paper Shotgun did a “making of” article a while back, which can be found here. [...]

By: Jubaal

Jubaal — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:31:22 +0000

My pleasure. Spread the Hostile Waters Love!

By: John

John — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:09:15 +0000

Jubaal -great! Thanks! Gotta love that GOG!

By: Jubaal

Jubaal — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:49:19 +0000

Just found out from some helpful soul at http://www.gog.com that if you create a shortcut to the HostileWaters.exe file, and add a ‘-windowed’ (Minus the ‘s) at the end of the target line in the shortcut properties, the game runs in windowed mode. So you can alt+tab to your hearts content. Yay!

By: Mr. Weedy

Mr. Weedy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:47:16 +0000

The game is old and I don’t think the developers at that time imaginated that anyone would alt+tab back then because the computers weren’t powerful enough for that. I still remember how my old computer choked up because of my PCI graphic card instead of AGP. The AGP cards were very high-tech back then. :)

Anyway, if someone can offer their help in the sense of creating a game, know what it takes to create a game and you know what Steam program is, feel free to contact me: minimister [at] gmail [dot] com.

Antaeus may raise again. ;)

By: Jubaal

Jubaal — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:48:46 +0000

Bah no. If it was an average game I wouldn’t care, but as I love Hostile Waters so much it makes me a sad monkey. :(

By: John

John — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:53:43 +0000

Many games don’t let you ALT-Tab, so don’t blame a single game about it! :) Anyway, plenty of very average games don’t either – so having a great one like Hostile Waters makes it easier, surely! :)

By: Jubaal

Jubaal — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:32:17 +0000

If only I could alt+tab without the game crashing *sobs*

By: John

John — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:05:35 +0000

Let’s not forget, amongst the names mentioned, the Sean Connery sound-a-like! :) Made that first cutscene sound like a movie or TV show! :)

By: Jubaal

Jubaal — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:57:24 +0000

Hostile Waters has to be one of my favourite ever games on any platform. It has the exact kind of gameplay I love i.e. the ability to manage units from a strategic level or get in there and dirty yourself.

The background story and cut-scenes are nicely put together and with a narration cast like Paul Darrow, Glynis Barber and Tom Baker you can’t go wrong.

What puts the icing on the cake for me is the personality of the characters and the banter between them. Listening to Patton say “Son, this is not a gun” if you dare to equip him with any weapon smaller than the statue of liberty still makes me smile.

Personally I always tried to allocate the characters the same vehicles, Ransom was my main chopper pilot, Borden flew my Pegasus, Koralev was my healing scarab, Patton had a Rhino etc. What about the rest of you?

I’ve started playing it again and I’m surprised how much I am still enjoying it. So often when you come back to old games you loved they never quite live up to how great you remembered them, however I’m loving Hostile Waters this time as much as I did the first.

It is such a shame to hear that the multiplayer code was never released. To be honest though I would have preferred a plain skirmish mode where the game creates a randomised island based on some user defined settings e.g. island size, difficulty setting etc.

Right, I’m off to perform a ritual sacrifice and bargain my soul in return for the development of Hostile Waters 2.