Friday 7th May 1999 |
Server Change - Daniel |
We have just moved servers and reorganised the site (but the page shouldn't look much different). Please tell me if there are any problems or dead links on any of our pages. Also, please update your bookmark with our new URL: |
PCG Top 100 - Daniel |
The PC Gamer UK Top 100 Games Awards 1999 (whew) has just arrived at my door, along with the rest of the magazine. Anyway, this is bad news I'm afraid. Red Alert was at the measly number 38! It's slipped 20 places since last year's chart, and is now well below it's number 3 score of 1997. Mind you, it is over two years old now, but I still think it's a great game and deserved a better rating. Civ 2 is also over 2 years old, and they had that at number 3, only beaten by the excellent Quake 2, and of course Half-Life, which was number 1. Other RTS Titles which beat Red Alert (but only just) included Starcraft at number 31 and Total Annihilation at number 29. Hopefully, next year, Tiberian Sun will top the chart! |
New PCG Image - Daniel |
This image is from the TS Adver in the May 99 issue of PC Gamer. Rainman from TS Center has scanned the image. Click on it for a larger (and I mean large) version:![]() |
New Cutscene Movie - Daniel |
Proclone from CC4Ever has made a 34 second fake cutscene called 'The First Shots'. It is an 8.5Mb AVI file and a 2.5Mb MPEG file. It features two NOD Banshees flying over a desert then attacking and destroying a hidden GDI base. Download it at CC4Ever. |
New TS Pic - Daniel |
TiberianSun.de have got a good quality image of the TS Ad released recently. Here it is (click for a larger version):![]() |
Saturday 1st May 1999 |
Sorry - Daniel |
Sorry the news has been a bit slow this week but I've been doing my exams! I dont' know what Alex has been up to, an English project I think. Anyway, hopefully we'll be better organised over the next few weeks while I'm busy doing the rest of my exams. Here is all the news for this week: (there's a lot of it) |
TS Going Gold in May - Daniel |
TS Command Center have received confirmation from Rade that TS will be going gold in May and it will be available in the shops shortly after that! Excellent! |
Current Events on Official Site - Daniel |
You may have noticed that Westwood have been using current events in the world for their GDI news updates on the official TS site. RSN have written an article on this, here is one of the examples they give:TS: "Among the survivors was the driver of the supply truck who said he was alerted to the fire when oncoming traffic flashed their headlights about four miles into the massive twelve mile tunnel." |
Map Editor and Expansion Packs - Daniel |
Tiberian Zone asked Adam Isgreen, lead TS designer, a few questions. Here are two of them:Zed: Just how much does the map editor need to be changed to make it good for release to the public? We'll go a long way to figure out the map editor just as long as we get it. |
Molly Culver Info - Daniel |
Molly Culver is the actress who plays NOD Officer Oxanna Kristoss in Tiberian Sun. Here is some more information and a pic from TS Center:![]() |
Adam and the TS LOL3 Realm - Daniel |
TiberianSun.de asked Adam Isgreen about the TS world in Lands of Lore 3, where there is a NOD temple. Louis Castle, President of Westwood and producer of LOL3, said that this was all Adam's idea, but here is what Adam said:Adam: I can't take credit for having the NOD-influenced realm put in LOL3. If I suggested it, I completely forgot I did. Most likely it was Jeff Fillhaber, the lead designer on LOL3, that came up with the idea. As for information about it, suffice it to say that there's a realm in LOL3 called "shattered desert" (I believe that's the correct name) that has some structures in it that bear some striking similarities to NOD style-wise. In that realm you may even get a sneak peek at a certain computer entity that you'll meet in TS. |
Release Date - Daniel |
TCC discovered this suprising information on the release date:
"I went over to my local retailers Software First in Manchester and asked them about the TS release date. They then directed me to a piece of paper on the front desk which had all the release dates on for big games coming out over the next 3 months. I went down the list to look for TS expecting to see it say June/July and to my suprise I saw the following: 7/02/99. I then asked the shop owner were he gets the release dates from and he told me straight from the game publishers, in this case EA. I remains to be seen if this is the real confirmed date but it is first time I've seen an exact day for TS."Westwood Studios have, however, been saying that TS will go 'Gold' sometime in late May, and would be released in June. Hopefully, Software First made a mistake. I hope this doesn't mean the game's coming out a few weeks later in the UK though! |
Disruptor Beam or Obelisk? - Daniel |
Ben Dickorson sent an e-mail to BGTS concerning the following screenshot. He has quite an interesting theory, here you go:![]() 1. It is pointing at the Obelisk of Light 2. There is some debri in its path 3. It looks like it refracts the ground underneath; the lines on the road are not in line with the rest of the road, indicating a transparent beam - that would be cool and more realistic. Of course, it could be the Obelisk beam fading out, but I do not think so; it is much wider than the obelisk beam. It not straight either, it waves slightly from side to side. The final explanation I thought up was that it could be the disrupter beam dying out.. |
PC Gamer Info - Daniel |
TiberiumSun.com found some TS info from the June Issue of PC Gamer. Here is a small part of the preview:In a Nutshell: After what seems like an interminable wait, arguably the most infuential real-time strategy game of all time finally gets the sequel it deserves. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun's impressive new feature set includes newly diversified GDI and NOD forces, multi-level terrain complete with real physics, spectacular lighting effects (check out those night missions) and an all-new isometric view of the action. |
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