Red Orchestra wins MSU
Apparently the Red Orchestra mod has won the Make Something Unreal Contest. Their prize is $50,000 cash and an Unreal Engine license (worth $350,000) that allows them to sell their mod as a standalone game. To be honest I was hoping that it would go to someone more deserving. Sure, RO has all the hype surrounding it, but it is essentially nothing more than a weapon pack. Aside from movement speeds it doesn’t actually alter the Unreal gameplay at all- you have slow-firing, long-range weapons for sniping, high-power but inaccurate weapons for close combat etc. etc. Why couldn’t this prize have gone to a developer that did something that a 10Mb modpack can’t? The likes of Deathball, FragOps, Alien Swarm or Air Buccaneers. They actually came up with a new way of playing UT2004- turning it into a sports game, RTS, top-down adventure game and flight simulator respectively- which after all is supposed to be what modifications do. Sticking a few new 3d models onto the existing unreal gameplay is nothing special.
June 14th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Well this is my oldest surviving post. Although there were older posts than this, they were lost in the Wordpress 1.2 –> Drupal –> MT –> Wordpress 1.2 –> MT whirlwind I found myself in when first setting up this blog.