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« on: March 24, 2006, 11:32:22 AM »
WWII Battle Tanks: T-34 vs. Tiger.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: IDDK ( www.games.iddk.ru ) and G5 Software ( www.g5software.com ) announce a new tank simulation to be set during the Second World War.

WWII Battle Tanks: T-34 vs. Tiger” tells the story of the great triumph of the Soviet Army during the summer campaign of 1944.  The Soviet Army had won the battle near Kursk, and since that day, German tank forces were retreating. “Operation Bagration” in 1944 was one of the most significant Russian campaigns during the struggle of Soviet and German tanks in Belorussia.

The player will be able to experience “Operation Bagration” in two playable campaigns – a Russian campaign and a German campaign, where he can take control over the Russian T-34 or, respectively,  the German Tiger.

The player will be fighting in realistic locations, modeled after the Belorussian landscape of the early 20th century, recreated from hundreds of reference photos and maps. Additionally, the game will feature a realistic combat environment, including infantry, cars, armored personnel-carriers, motorcycles, artillery, aircraft.

The most detailed technical documents available were used to model realistic physics and tank behavior. To model realistic tank movements, the propulsion systems, transmissions and gear-ratios, tank masses, friction and suspensions were taken into consideration. For a realistic gunnery model, the mass of the shell, gravity, and the initial speed of the various ammunition types, as well as the various gunner's sights available, were taken into consideration.

Realistic effects, such as explosions, smoke, destruction of vehicles and buildings are modeled.  Tanks (and other objects) can be shot or rammed, displaying different levels of damage. The player can observe the battlefield from both realistically modeled 3D or virtual stations, as well as from third person views and various camera angles.

The latest 3D engine technology allows for stunning graphics effects, such as dynamic shadows, self shading, bump mapping, specular maps, glow and bloom effects. New technologies used make it possible to stretch the map-size to over 40 square kilometers and set up thousands of trees of the highest level of detail.  
   
Key features:

•   Storyline based on the Soviet Army “Bagration” operation in Belorussia in 1944;
•   Large scale of available missions;
•   Realistic handling and physics;
•   Realistic locations depicting Belorussian landscape of  the early 20th century;
•   Detailed animation of weapons, vehicles and infantry
•   Realistic combat environments of that time period, including infantry, cars, armored cars, motorcycles, artillery, aircraft, armored  troop-carriers;
•   Playable, detailed 3D crew stations for commander, driver and gunner;
•   Non-Linear Mission Structure;
•   Various external Views;
•   Realistic effects: explosions, smoke, destroyable units;
•   Both Internet and LAN Multiplayer Options;

WWII Battle Tanks: T-34 vs. Tiger” is scheduled for release in Q1 of 2007 in Russia.

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1. Driver's station

 


1.1 Driver's station hatch

 

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WWII Battle Tanks: T-34 vs. Tiger.
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2006, 11:34:58 AM »

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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2006, 11:38:51 AM »
looks like tread-head heaven!
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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2006, 01:24:01 PM »
Ok so the russians have made the best air simulation to date, now it looks like they will be doing the best tank simulation to date.

Whassup Wiff Dat?
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« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2006, 01:43:06 PM »
T34 was a great tank but it is so ugly.
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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2006, 01:52:07 PM »
dude, when you look at a T34, you are looking at perfection and perfection by definition...is beautiful :cool:
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2006, 01:52:45 PM »
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Ok so the russians have made the best air simulation to date, now it looks like they will be doing the best tank simulation to date.

Whassup Wiff Dat?


Basically free education and low wages.

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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2006, 02:00:01 PM »
Basically free education and low wages.
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you guys got that in finland........lets see some Finnish combat simulations :p
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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2006, 02:08:04 PM »
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Ok so the russians have made the best air simulation to date, now it looks like they will be doing the best tank simulation to date.

Whassup Wiff Dat?


Niche market. US & Japanese game companies spend more on marketing & packaging than other companies could ever dream about spending on just development. If there's not a high enough ROI they won't bother funding the game. Right now looks like most of the major players (SOE, etc) are trying to find ways to put a dent in Blizzard's mmorpg dominance. The solution seems to be to battle back with just as colorful games, loaded with thousands & thousands of hours of content.

Even truly great games (EA's Majestic), sometimes, unfortunately fail horribly in the US market. :(

Ahh, almost forgot, one of the more recent issues. If an American company made a tank game, and had an M4 Sherman on the box, it wouldn't be unexpected for GM to sue them and demand royalties. iirc, this happened recently to Pacific Fighters I think.
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2006, 02:38:17 PM »
Don't forget that they have the safest manned space launcher (per number of launches) and the fastest fighter (Mig 25, baby.  Laugh all you want, but the only Iraqi air-air kill in the gulf war was a Mig25 shooting down an F-18, there's still room for the 'there's no replacement for displacement' argumetn).

Russia is neat.
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2006, 04:53:59 PM »
This looks awesome. Hopefully the modeling is right and the T-34 and Tiger will not be equal.

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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2006, 08:34:16 PM »
Looks great but here goes another Hardware Upgrade :eek:

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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2006, 09:05:46 PM »
Laugh all you want, but the only Iraqi air-air kill in the gulf war was a Mig25 shooting down an F-18
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anyone know the name of the Iraqi pilot that claimed the kill?
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« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2006, 10:50:22 PM »
red orchestra captures tank battles pretty well...

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« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2006, 11:40:12 PM »
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Laugh all you want, but the only Iraqi air-air kill in the gulf war was a Mig25 shooting down an F-18
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anyone know the name of the Iraqi pilot that claimed the kill?
Dunno, but:

The MiG-25P and MiG-25PD Foxbat are the fastest fighter aircraft in the world with a maximum speed limited to Mach 2.83. It recorded the first air-to-air kill during the Gulf War when an Iraqi Foxbat downed a Boeing F-18 Hornet on January 17, 1991. Of particular note is that during the Gulf War, one Iraqi Foxbat-E eluded not only eight sweeping F-15s but also tangled with two General Dynamics EF-111A Aardvark.
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