By John Walker on November 29th, 2010 at 12:09 pm.
An email arrived from Orion: Prelude developers, Spiral Game Studios, asking us if we miss Starsiege: Tribes. Which I misread as “Miss Starsiege: Tribes”, which would be the strangest beauty contest ever. It is, in fact, the multiplayer shooter Alec mentioned a couple of weeks back, based on the success of their previous Orion: Source mod experiment. Oh, and it contains dinosaurs of course. And humans (called Carriers). Which have had something of a makeover. So they don’t look like Master Chief any more. There’s new artwork and the old video below.
Dinosaurs in shooters really does seem to be the new zombies, and I welcome it in with open arms. Orion: Prelude boasts the following features:
01. MULTIPLAYER ONLY.
02. DINOSAURS
03. VEHICLE COMBAT (6 VEHICLES)
04. 7 ENORMOUS MULTIPLAYER LEVELS
05. 6 UNIQUE PLAYER CLASSES
06. 30 WEAPONS & ITEMS
07. 3 INTERACTIVE GAME MODES
– VITAL
– LOCKDOWN CTF
– CINEMATIC CO-OP
Which looks promising. Prelude is going to be only a part of the full game, apparently.
To redesign the Carriers they hired four concept artists and told them to go wild. They were very pleased with the results, and the new art reveals the new vehicles too. Click on the man-face above to see it bigger. The other three are about actual size anyway.
There’s also a bunch of new community features, which you can get involved with via here.
29/11/2010 at 12:11 Jsnuk says:
I, for one, don’t see why we can’t have both dinosaurs AND zombies co-existing peacefully.
29/11/2010 at 12:17 Omroth says:
Because dinosaurs are awesome and zombies are boring.
29/11/2010 at 12:25 sockeatsock says:
With hats. Zombies with hats. Or maybe, just maybe, dinosaurs with hats.
29/11/2010 at 12:41 Surgeon says:
Surely you could just triple the awesome by combining all three.
Hat wearing dinosaur zombies.
29/11/2010 at 12:43 SanguineAngel says:
Just hats, no zombies no dinosaurs. Just hats.
29/11/2010 at 13:04 Dawngreeter says:
Can we sell our own dinosaurs? Or zombies? Or zombie dinosaurs? I rest my case.
29/11/2010 at 13:41 Epsz says:
Dinosaurs wearing zombie hats
29/11/2010 at 14:13 squirrel says:
I dont know, but if a dinosaur is infected to be a zombie, I guess I will not be able to tell the difference. It is going to eat me anyway.
Remain me of the Area 51 by Midway in 2005.
29/11/2010 at 20:22 GoodPatton says:
A T-Rex with a top hat and a monocle? Yes please! And perhaps, just perhaps, a tea cup and saucer for his little hands? One can only dream.
29/11/2010 at 20:45 Tei says:
What about Zombie Hats, undead hats with a hunger for brains.
29/11/2010 at 21:07 DrGonzo says:
Zombie dinosaurs only eat your brains. A T-Rex eating someones head much like a boiled egg.
05/12/2010 at 12:26 Superbest says:
Blah, what does who is dead and who’s extinct, and who dons what chapeau, if I can’t buy the hats at 17.99$ a piece. Crap, I say! This hat-store-less game isn’t worth my consideration.
05/12/2010 at 12:27 Superbest says:
Blah, what does it matter who is dead and who’s extinct, and who dons what chapeau, if I can’t buy the hats at 17.99$ a piece? Crap, I say! This hat-store-less game isn’t worth my consideration.
29/11/2010 at 12:21 strange headache says:
Is the spam filter still eating my messages?
29/11/2010 at 12:33 SF Legend says:
It is very hungry and requires lots of carbohydrates.
29/11/2010 at 12:42 P7uen says:
Spam is protein, surely?
29/11/2010 at 12:59 DevilSShadoW says:
Cinematic co-op..
as in
co-op
that plays itself?
29/11/2010 at 14:24 Jake says:
They hired four concept artists and told them to go wild, then later re-evaluated that and said ‘actually, just a bit like Master Chief is fine, y’know, power armour stuff, nothing fancy.’
29/11/2010 at 16:19 Santiago says:
I read Command Carriers and thought of Carrier Command, which really interests me. Unlike this.
30/11/2010 at 01:59 Peanut says:
Me too. :(
Although this is still interesting in its own right.
29/11/2010 at 16:23 Christopher M. says:
#01 ain’t a feature for me. It’s a bug.
29/11/2010 at 17:33 Unknown says:
I concur.
29/11/2010 at 21:19 DrGonzo says:
What a narrow mind you must have then.
29/11/2010 at 16:24 Gibbobobo says:
I read the title and thought someone had decided to remake Carrier Command, someone should.
29/11/2010 at 17:04 Blather Blob says:
@Gibbobobo: Someone has.
Having just played ArmA 2 for the first time (thanks to the Steam sale), I was also very excited to think there was new information on the Carrier Command remake. But it seems to have gone silent.
29/11/2010 at 17:08 noom says:
I was under the impression someone was.
edit: looks like I was too slow :3
29/11/2010 at 16:54 Zomby says:
Dinosaur vehicles?
29/11/2010 at 20:23 GoodPatton says:
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs?
29/11/2010 at 23:37 Mantel says:
Of course!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9c2K4Jl5LI
“One man stands alone… as long as you pay no attention to the chick and his black friend.”
29/11/2010 at 19:52 snv says:
That video looked strangly unappealing off. Then they threw those Xbox-Live and Playstation Network logos around and it all came together.
29/11/2010 at 20:26 GoodPatton says:
I said it last time the trailer was posted and I’ll say it again…I’m impressed with the sense of scale in the trailer! It really looks like they captured a realistic size comparison for the world. It’s a bit disappointing though that this Multiplayer only.
29/11/2010 at 20:48 Tei says:
The map seems small to fit on the 512 MB (or less) ram of a console.
Other than that, I like the art. But the engine seems old. Grass is not impresive to this date, and some rocks props around was done by Half-Life Lost Coast like a million years ago. Maybe I sould be impresed because this was done by a small team?
I wait for how this will feel in my hands in a demo.
29/11/2010 at 21:22 DrGonzo says:
There are quite a few console games with big levels though.
30/11/2010 at 05:36 Joe W-A says:
They’re using UDK, so the engine shouldn’t seem old.
29/11/2010 at 20:53 Army of None says:
I thought of Cortex Command and carriers therein….
30/11/2010 at 02:44 Maltose says:
I sure hope the game modes are interactive. I wouldn’t want to play a game that was limited to non-interactive modes.
30/11/2010 at 04:19 Pew says:
Why not just make a Dino Riders game? Lasers on a T-Rex to shoot down Pterodactyl carpet bombers while evading a rushing titanium plated Stegosaurus? DINO RIDERS!
30/11/2010 at 16:25 MrBRAD! says:
I want a nuclear t-rex :(
02/12/2010 at 10:49 PC_Gamer says:
“01. MULTIPLAYER ONLY.”
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand you lost me.