Chambers wrote:
> 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

I think the game you mean is Red Faction. It wasn't completely 
deformable, though. There were sections of walls that could be blown up, 
parts of a hallway wall could be knocked down with just grenades, others 
would seem to be impervious to everything short of a rocket launcher.

It was a pretty good change to gameplay when it was released. I remember 
a few LAN games when someone would find a new part of the wall that 
could be removed, and gain a sudden advantage.

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