JEO 24/46
//// Unfinished Games/Hyper Image
Jaguar Interactive
Date received: 1/17/98 10:0 from ad35-240.arl.compuserve.com (Doug Engel)
Subject: RE: RE: MORE strange Jaguar rumors... That may be true...!
>None of those sound like games totally done to me, with
>the exception of Brett Hull Hockey. I don't MKIII was far
>along,
I'm not sure it was even STARTED.
>although Thea Realm Fighters MIGHT have been,
It was bout 25% done.
> phaze zero was but needed missions to be added,
>although everything else was done.
No it was not. All that was done was the game engine and a mission
briefing screen. There were a couple of out-game screens done too, but
they were low quality and looked like placeholders. The game-engine
itself was nice to look at, but crashed very often. The engine seemed
very incomplete, not only due to the fact that it crashed, but also
because it had the variety of a game of tic-tac-toe. There were 5 or 6
levels done (but I could only see 4 of them because that's the
farthest I could get in 5 minutes between crashes once I mastered the
first levels). ALL of the levels were identical except the landscape
colors and terrain were different (big deal). The missions all started
with some text telling you to rescue some downed pilot or pick up a
spy or something like that. So, you'd fly around these maps shooting
the same enemy ships until you found the same little pilot figure
(which was the same image even if it were a man or woman you were
supposed to rescue) and then the level would end. Whoopee.
The game had a lot of promise, but it was only about 50% done when
Magic Arts...er.... Hyper-Image started getting money from Atari for
it which they could spend on their Saturn Game development. Once that
happened, then work stopped on the game.
> Highlanders were probably not far along, as
>it seemed the first one still needed some tweeking.
Possibly.
>Games that probably were done include Skyhammer,
I have heard this one was finished enough for release.
>Arena Football,
Don't know.
>Soulstar,
Possibly. No info on this one either has surfaced.
>and maybe a couple others. Most still had some or a lot of work left.
>I wonder how far Legions of the Undead was along (it was a redone AVP
>engine which would included angled ceilings and a higher framerate)
I don't think it was very far along.
Thunderbird
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