Never played the Godfather game, but I played "Mafia", which was brilliant.
Oh, and "Pirates of the XXI century" turns out to become a standart shooter, where Pirates will be just a side role most likely:
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Company “DIOsoft†is glad to announce the change in the concept of the “Pirates of XXI century†project.
There are lots of people who believe that on the face of the Earth there are no white spots and places where man does not been, and the speculations about mysterious unknown territories – just a rumor. Although there are many detailed maps and every inch of the surface was snap from the satellite, we still can find such places. The ill famous Bermuda triangle is an example of such places. The act of our game will take place there, on the other side of the reality in parallel world of the Bermuda triangle.
The very existence of the mysterious Bermuda triangle and the unexplainable disappearance of the swimming and flying human vehicles and other anomalies – is a great mystery, which the humankind cannot solve. In fact the Bermuda triangle really is a gate to another, parallel world, escape from which is not so easy.
Play as main character players must to survive in another world, which on the one hand is similar to usual tropical paradise and from other - they will experience this world completely different – aggressive and odd. The main character of the game is David O'Braian, research-pilot of the secret detachment “Deltaâ€. During the test flight his secret fighter crashed in the Bermuda triangle, and pilot himself managed to eject in the last moment. Will David be able to return home, escape from imprisonment and overwhelm the dangerous, swarming with evil creatures’ jungles? Will he be able to know that world, and learn how to survive in it, will he able to forget and learn much? What waits ahead, whom he will find in this world, lost people or aliens, ancient races perhaps? Only walk trough the game the player will receive answers on these questions, and many others. Then, who knows, may be he will be able to find his way, that’s lead out of this trap to freedom!
USP:
* Huge, thoroughly detailed world full of mystery and puzzles
* Possibility to solve the main secret of the Bermuda triangle – why do people get trapped in it and how to escape from it.
* An array of challenging enemies demanding individual approach
* Advanced artificial intelligence
* More than twenty types of modifiable weapons
* Non linear game play process
* Side quests to provide money, better weapons and equipment
* Mini games that helps player to earn money
* Underwater missions
* Large amount of the vehicles, starting from quarto cycles and hydro cycles, finishing with large ocean ships
* Physical engine PhysX, by AGEIA, with support of the hardware accelerator participating the game play process
* Support of the Creative EAX 4.0 Advanced HD. This technology provides vivid sound atmosphere, maximally resembling reality, and providing more deep immersion into the atmosphere of the virtual world. Sources of sound effects and noises are being positioned in 3D sound space and processed by all required audio-effects to achieve sounding corresponding to player location in different rooms and sound environments
DIOengine is a proprietary technology created in-house.
Its technology allows creating huge open spaces including water and underwater worlds, visualization of which is considering one of the best in industry of computer games. Moreover “DIOengine†supports all of the latest achievements in computer graphic such: 1. Super-realistic shaders for:
- water
- rocks
- forests
- underwater plants
2. Post-process effects includes
- HDR
- depth-of-field
- bloom
- blur
- alien-look
3. Dynamic day/night cycle;
4. Realistic dynamic water exciting/disturbation for moving ships includes 3D-waves and procedural foam
5. Dynamic shadows.
6. Realistic dynamic procedural sky
7. Using cutting edge shader technologies includes
- per-pixel lighting
- render-to-texture technologies
- procedural textures and geometry
- HDR and float textures
- Perlin noise
8. Powerful library for location and effective render huge amount of trees/underwater plants, corals, etc. includes procedural trees/leaves animation.
9. Unique lighting model for unlimited light sources with support bump-mapping based on precomputed maps.
10. Module for creation and playback scripted movies used skeletal animation engine with supporting large animations compressing.
11. Using PhysX engine
- for small vehicle controlling like hydro-bikes and quadrocycles.
- for large ships controlling like towboat
- using physics accelerator
12. Effective occlusion technologies includes
- open area culling based on adaptive horizont buffer
- portal system for closed spaces
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