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  Re: Another game question  
From: Chambers
Date: 20 Aug 2008 10:17:59
Message: <48ac2797$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Actually, I'm waiting for the day when computer games will portray this 
> realistically. It's like HL2:DM. 12 guys run around inside a crumbling 
> dungeon hurling grenades and using rocket launchers. And after 20 
> minutes, the map itself just has a few bullet holes. Obviously, if you 
> did this in a *real* crumbling dungeon, there would be walls missing and 
> so forth! But no game seems to have managed to do this yet... Presumably 
> having a completely deformable map is just too much of a technical 
> challenge right now.

Wasn't there one a few years ago, Red Storm or something like that?  It 
was, IIRC, made by a group of Russion grad students, and the story was 
about miners on Mars revolting.

Completely deformable maps.  The demo let you blow a house to pieces, 
and make a larger and larger crater as you threw rockets at it :)

...Chambers


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