For those of you interested in B17 II...

[AKSeaWulfe]

GOod news, it's gone gold. Will be in European shelves on Nov24th. I expect somewhere around Dec 18th for the US. http://www.bombs-away.net/ubb/Forum1/HTML/004115.html

That's the link to the thread, it's official.
-SW

[Dowding]

My Brother has pre-ordered it - he should get it on the 26th November.

I might pay him an unexpected visit.  

[AKSeaWulfe]

Lucky brit bastid!! ;-)
I can't wait to get my hands on it, but I gotta wait until it's over here in the US. Pre-ordering it from the UK would probably leave it on my doorstep around the same time it hits US shelves tho... I hope!! :-(

My C466 326MB PC100 RAM and V5 5500 should be able to handle medium detail.. and it is supposed to still look amazingly good at that level.
-SW

[Dowding]

I'll let you know if it's any good... you never know it might be crap and you can save yourself the $40.  

My brother's machine is a PIII 550 with voodoo 3000 and 128 Mb PC100 - I post some screen shots from it.

BTW, why is it released over here first - I'd assumed it was an american development team?

[This message has been edited by Dowding (edited 11-13-2000).]

[AKSeaWulfe]

WayWard is it's developer and is a British based programming team. UK Hasbro gets first dibs, so it's shipped to you lucky guys first then we'll get it a little later when US Hasbro gets CD copies from the UK.

See!! Some good things do come from the UK. ;-P
-SW

[Saintaw]

I WORK right next to a Game shop, the owner is a friend, I should get the copy as soon as it hits Brussels  

Saw

[Soulyss]

Bastiges, the lot of ya....


.... I hate waiting........  

[Dowding]

Hehehe  

BTW - there's a really good mailorder games company here, which is where my brother pre-ordered his copy from. I'm almost certain that it will ship to the States:

 http://www.gameplay.co.uk

I'm sure if you paid a little extra, you could have the game a couple of weeks before its released in the states.

[flakbait]

If you ever bought Blood 2 you'll notice a little warning on the back "Not for sale in the US". I've got a copy I picked up at a discount software place. When I raided the official site I found out that the game was made in the UK. Still a fun game, even if I'm a Bloody Yank and not supposed to own it  



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Delta 6's Flight School
Whattaya mean I can't kill 'em? Why the hell not?!

[Dowding]

I had a demo of that - it was pretty good.

Was it banned in the US? I guess it did have quite a 'dark' theme. Soldier of Fortune was more graphic, though.

It ain't illegal for you Bloody Yanks (tm)  to buy games designed for the UK market, direct from the UK. I hope it isn't, because I was thinking of buying the DVD version of 'Kelly's Heroes' from the US, because it isn't available over here. I found some software that will let my DVD drive play Region 1 DVDs.  

[Wilfrid]

I chatted to Iain Howe (one of the programmers) for some time at ECTS in September as I watched him play it. Looked nice (although a mid-air collision resulted in 3 planes bobbing about like ducks on a pond before reformating. I should say this was 2 weeks into beta testing). I already pre-ordered it  

Wilfrid