Comments on: Biology Lesson: Immune Attack

By: jont

jont — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:53:17 +0000

There’s nowt wrong with that engine, you can still go back to the original Half Life even now.

But that design, now there’s a thing. I’d be happy as Larry swimming about in my little gut-sub if they’d just let me do so for about five fucking seconds without having to click on a pop up window, or having Major MacWhateverthefuck telling me that a new pop up message has appeared that needs urgent attention.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:33:39 +0000

“You can’t fight eye disease with bullets.”

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:54:02 +0000

I saw Inner Space for the first time in about fifteen years the other week. I shed my required annual tear of toy.

It’s surprising this hasn’t been done sooner, more recently. That I know about, anyway. The scope for playing with the setting is vast, and the level design could be great fun.

It’s tempting to blame Microcosm, obv.

By: Urthman

Urthman — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:52:48 +0000

Actually, this is a super-futuristic top-secret government graphics engine (as you would expect from the NSF label) that shows you exactly what things look like at that scale.

But at that scale, photons seem much bigger, and so everything you see looks blocky and pixelated.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:44:46 +0000

Ding, ding-replace that nanobot with a school bus and you’ve got the world’s greatest Magic School Bus computer game.

By: hoff

hoff — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:32:16 +0000

So they stole the Ambrosia shipment?

By: Bret

Bret — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:11:30 +0000

“Germ defenses are so big, you don’t even know who you’re working for. That’s terror. Terror built into the system. The IMMUNE system.”

By: Krondonian

Krondonian — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:24:57 +0000

The zero-G spaceship environment from Crysis. But in a human body.

That is all.

By: Persus-9

Persus-9 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:54:58 +0000

Not in the trailer they don’t. Although I must admit I did for a moment think John might have been making a really weak joke about how far his reading ability had been corrupted by gaming as a follow up to his NSF remark.

However after watching the trailer I agree with HexagonalBolts. They’re using alien in the sense of unfamilar/not part of normal experience.

By: aldo

aldo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:19:53 +0000

I was at a conference/seminar thing recently which included some ‘serious’ games, including one designed as a triage simulator – that is, identify the worst wounded, perform an evaluation checklist, and mark their urgency, etc. It was actually pretty graphically advanced, and their demonstration footage of 3d guy bleeding to death from a head wound (that is, from head only, with facial expressions, realistic blood flow rate, skin pallor etc changing) was genuinely spooky.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:19:24 +0000

The US government must surely be rueing the day they decided to cut off their funding.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:59:40 +0000

Anyone remember 3D body adventure? That was my favourite game as a kid. it came bundled with a bunch of freeware when my dad bought a shitty packard bell PC.

I spent hours running around the hospital and shrinking myself down to shoort 2D doom style sprite viruses.

there was also a 3D flythrough of the heart and digestive system. I used to spend more time playing that then i did doom.