Maelstorm Interview

Das Virgin Interactive Spiel Maelstorm wird von dem neuen UnrealWarfare Engine angetrieben und ist eine Mischung aus Konsolen und PC Shoot`em up. Es wird FPS und Spaceshooter kombinieren und für Xbox, PC und PS2 ende 2002 erscheinen. VE hat nun ein Interview (engl) nun mit den Entwicklern geführt.

Voodoo Extreme - First, the movie that Virgin Interactive released a few weeks ago has stirred a lot of interest in this game. Can you tell us if this was all in game footage or whether some of it was pre-rendered?

Damien Hosen - The movie released featured all of Maelstrom's in-game Xbox models but, due to a time shortage, we had to render out some the sequences. The movie is a combination of in-game renders and pre-rendered work, using in-game animations and models. We were careful to make sure that this was demonstrative of gameplay and so what you see is how the game will look on Xbox. You can now play the space shoot'em up section and it looks exactly the same as in the movie. The first person section is actually more detailed than the movie which featured only a very bland section of level geometry.

06.06.2001, 16:56 [Joe]