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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: TRiMmer on May 23, 2002, 03:23:00 PM
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Check this out...
IENT To Launch New Tank Simulation and
Two New Flying Simulations at E3 Show
All Three to Ship at Retail in Fall
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002-- I Entertainment Network, (OTCBB: IENT - News) announces today that it will launch three new massive multiplayer retail and internet products at the E3 show in Los Angeles, CA, May 22nd to May 24th.
International game publishers will ship each of these products for the fall retail season. IENT's CEO, Bill Stealey, can be found at the Simon and Schuster booth in the West Foyer at E3. Simon and Schuster will ship one of IENT's titles for the Fall retail season.
IENT will release its new World War II Tank game, "K.I.C. A.S.S." (KA). This new massive multiplayer online simulation game (MMOSG), originally called, "Knights in Combat, Armored Simulation Series", takes advantage of the new graphics technology developed for the award winning, "WarBirds III" flight simulation. This product features all the major ground vehicles of World War II and immerses the player in exciting and realistic combat between the Allied and Axis Armored Divisions.
Two new flying games, "WarBirds Korea", and "Dawn of Aces III", will also be launched at the E3 show. WarBirds Korea features the first jet combat the world had ever seen including F-86s, P-80s, MiGs, and many of the ground vehicles of the period. WarBirds Korea also uses real satellite topographical data for the Korean peninsula. WarBirds is the only product on the market that can display 256 square miles of 1 to 1 real world terrain. Dawn of Aces III brings to life the birth of aerial combat from World War I when Spads and Fokker Triplanes ruled the sky! Dawn of Aces allows players to experience the excitement of the first combat aviators the world ever knew. With wings of canvas these predators of the sky engage in combat aptly described as a knife fight in a phone booth. Get in close and react quickly to get the kill!
"These new products will introduce a large and growing number of retail players to IENT's online subscription service and should produce significant increases in both offline and online revenues enabling IENT to achieve its revenue growth goals," says IENT CEO, JW "Wild Bill" Stealey. "Also, we are already planning three additional retail products for release in 2003."
All of these new products use the IENT's Patented latency management system, (Patent No. 6,042,477), to minimize the effects of time latency in multiplayer online games. This Patent provides players all over the world a consistent Internet gaming experience and allows players from Europe, Asia, and the United States to play together in the same arenas while minimizing Internet latency problems.
All of the expected IENT Retail products can be viewed at
http://www.iencentral.com/corporate/licensing/index.php.
WarBirds III specific information can be found at
http://www.iencentral.com/corporate/licensing/wbIII/warbirds_reviewer.htm
Interesting title for the tank sim...hehe. I used to love DOA.
trm
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Allllriiight! I'm going to start holding my breath.
anyone else with me?
;)
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Hehe...hiya Westy :)
I just thought it was interesting...not excited about it at all. Prolly be quite awhile before we see any of it.
trm
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K.I.C. A.S.S. :eek:
Wow such an acronym!
Nice work of the marketing team i'll say. It immediately sounds like a serious simulation!
Edit: if they develop a submarine sim, I suggest to name it:
S.U.C B.U.T.T.S. : Submarine united Command - Battles Under The Terrible Seas
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They havnt finished WB3 yet and they are gonna make/are making 2 other sims too???
ROFLMAD!!!
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Which would explain why WBIII isn't done yet.
P.S. We already have a KIC-ASS tank sim .....World War 2 Online. The problem is it is ONLY good as a tank sim. Infantry, Airforce, and Navy are royally miss-developed.
Still, if it had been sold as soley and online vehicle game, it wouldn't have near the same problems with publicity it has now. Never promise what you can't deliver.
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DOA3 is being developed by a group of players, so it might actually have a chance of succeeding.
Daff
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"I just thought it was interesting..."
To be honest, I am too :) And if it was anyone else making it I might actually be a little excited at more options coming online to enjoy. Considering who it is though (WildThrill and the iEN crew) I can barely raise an eye brow.
But, as Daff noted DOA III is another thing altogether. Being developed by a company formed by players it looks the most interesting and IMO may have the most promise. About the only thing I think that could sour it's release for me would be for it to retain the age old "head that pivots on a fixed stick" view system. The one that all sims/games have used since the first pre-historic sims (except AH). IMO if any genre needed to implement the kind of virtual head/torso movement that HiTech created for AH it would be WWI aircombat. DOA as it is now is a fine looking/feeling WWI sim. But I feel legally blind flying those bailing wire crates with out the ability to duck, twist or look around a strut and have never bothered trying it out more.
Westy
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How can they have Dawn of Aces III without a Dawn of Aces II? :confused:
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I'd definitely give DoA III a look, if it ever materializes. Target: Flanders looks interesting, too...
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-nevermind- :)
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Wow...Warbirds Korea is gonna be interesting...
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iEN should just sell off the names and get money from that.
Otherwise they are gonna have 3 products- one half baked and the other two... well who knows since they actually have to start from the ground up on that one. :)
Any other company, and I'd say "interesting"....
-SW
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Nope, Natedog, you don't get off that easy. Which WWI birds are you guys working on? Or is that Korean War era? Please, please let the cat out of the bag! :D
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no, just yoda beat me to what I was gonna say......... I didn't know there was a DOA II...... I thought it hadn't changed since we finished working on it 3 years ago.
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Originally posted by NATEDOG
no, just yoda beat me to what I was gonna say......... I didn't know there was a DOA II...... I thought it hadn't changed since we finished working on it 3 years ago.
hehe speaking of 3 years ago or maybe it was 5 years ago now. Don't I remember Wild Bill Steely unvailing AW-Vietnam or something like that. You remember the game that was going to "revolutionize" online flight sims?
Hasn't WB3 been in developement only 6 months less than AH?
need I say more?
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I remember that. It was "Jetbirds"
Westy
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I would almost be excited if intuition didnt tell me that stealy is most likely looking for a product to hype his stock numbers so he can offload it for a good gain before the reality that nothing is happening sets in.
Seems to be his MO.....
Still, the WW1 thing will keep me watching at least.
Yes, target flanders also desevers to be looked after but anything from that whole operation seems more likely just a perpeptual playground for the (now) gray haired alpha testers.
Kieren, check this site out (if you havent already). Im not really clear on what the goings on are, but I found it awhile back and bookmarked it just in case.
http://www.wingswithwires.com/