Interview with Mirek Dymek contains new infos about Earth 2170

[Phalynx]

GRY-Online.pl, a well known polish online mag, has done an interview with Reality Pump - mostly with Mirek Dymek, Projectleader. They focussed on Two Worlds and it's successor The Temptation. In this interview Mirek explains the beginning of Reality Pump and tells us it's story.

Around three minutes of the interview are dedicated to the Earth Universe and the RTS genre. There were no pictures or even movies of the new Earth, but Mirek confirmed Earth 2170, even if he says they planned for the next years. Dirk P. Hassinger, Producer of Earth 2160, has already made a statement where Earth 2170 will not be available before 2010.

There will be a console version of the game, too. Let's remember: Earth 3 aka Earth 2160 was planned to be done for the (at the time young) Xbox. This project was aborted. But the world changed, in the meantime mostly all new games are released for PC and Consoles. With that step Earth 2170 will be trimmed to the mainstream: It will have less complexity and be more friendly for causal gamers. A nice looking graphic will replenish this.

Mirek admitted also that they released games too soon in the past. But they will do a new beginning with The Temptation. They have learned from past mistakes, also they will invest more time for quality assurance.

Two Worlds: The Temptation got a complete rewritten networkcode. We can assume that Earth 2170 will benefit of this. The new networkcode will allow lagfree games even on bad connections.

After all, the interview does not offer dramatically new things, but it delivers us a second sign of life and therefore a second confirmation that they don't forget our community.


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• Interview (obly für GRY-Online.pl abonnements)
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[Duchu47]

Are there any signs of development?

[Phalynx]

No, there is no new information.... Rumours are telling the year 2012 is not only bringing the dead to the earth *caugh*

[Duchu47]

Let's hope for the best. The third paragraph sounds a bit scary though.

[Drew]

Lol, 2012......... it figures....

[euo)(seek]

really funny, i was watching this movie a few minutes ago and now i read this posting ;-) hmm...

[HiFish]

Console Version? thats sad news Its gonna be the same as SupCom 2 - a dumbed down fast paced kids-game. Why cant they just accept that the concept of a proper rts-game is incompatible with how console games are played? Same procedure as every year...

[vb]

Why can't people just understand that console bashing is absolutely unecessary?
Really, it's just annoying.
The plattform got nothing to do with the complexity of the game. The market that is aimed at is way more important - In the case of new RTS games, it's the FPS crowd. That's why all new RTS are dumbed down to borderline RTT levels and stupidly filled with BO roulette in order to make them even faster.