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"...Starhawk: 05/08 Game of Thrones: 05/15 Max Payne 3: 05/15 Dragon's Dogma: 05/22 Ghost Recon Future Soldier: 05/22 Saturday 06 07 13 14 20 21 K 2000-John Romero's ill-fated first-person shooter Daikatana debuts. 27 28 www.atgamermagazine.com XBOX 360. XBOX360 PRIMER WIRELESS STEREO HEADSET CASQUESTEREO SANS FIL T 5.85 TRITON PRIMER· TM WIRELESS STEREO HEADSET 5.8 GHz WIRELESS/SANS FIL 40mm..."

"...Un-Buyer's Guide, a list of the Top Five possible wish-list mistakes and how to avoid disaster. Pay attention, folks: Your holiday well-being could count on it. Hey, I asked for a puppy, not this Daikatana crap! CONTRA: SHATTERED SOLDIER 30 Lives in Story Mode: Insert a controller in the second controller port, and at the main menu, press Up, Up, Down, Down, LI, RI, L2, R2, L3, R3. If you entered the..."

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"...Aces Tommy the Two (6 issues) P-40from MAND Low Aspect Ratio Aircraft JULY 1997 53 SENSORY OTERLOAD FIRST-PERSON SHOOTERS C T E G 0 R 1 E S FIGHTERS By Glenn Broderick PLATFORMERS DAIKATANA Publisher: Eidos XXX THIRD-PERSON ACTION Website: http://www.eidosinteractive.com Phone: 415.616.2022 ARCADE ACTION "Better living through creative weaponry"; that's my motto. FORSAKEN Publisher:..."

"...to test your looting abilities against up to 11 people via IPX or TCP/IP network connections. NUDLE Check out the light blending here and the game is still only in Alpha! This sketch of one of Daikatana's levels promises some serious atmosphere. Right now, we're on the brink of seeing perhaps the biggest explosion of really good action titles thus far. Gone are the substandard console conversions;..."

"...Besides being major sponsors of the convention, various companies showed off their new and upcoming products, mostly by using demos created for E3. Ritual Entertainment showed SiN, Ion Storm demo'd Daikatana (and talked about Anachronox) and Raven displayed Hexen II. There were also quite a few seminars, including one that featured John Carmack discussing how Quake II is coming along, and a "who's who"..."

"...Half-Life, Heavy Gear, EarthSiege 3 and Golgotha. Game Aces: X-Fighters Age of Empires Agents of Justice. Anachronox Army Men Baldur's Gate Black Dahlia Blade Runner Close Combat 2 The Condemned Daikatana Deathtrap Dungeon Descent to Undermountain Dreams EarthSiege 3 East Front F-22 Air Dominance Fighter Falcon 4.0 Flight Unlimited II. FPS: Football '98 FPS: Ski Racing Gabriel Knight 3. Golgotha..."

"...released one album, "Intruder," on Columbia records. Toured with Information Society (keyboards, percus- sion, back-up vocals) from 1992 until 1996. Started at Ion Storm in 1996; currently working on Daikatana. CONTACT INFO Ion Storm 2200 Ross Ave., 54th Fl. Dallas, TX 75201 http://www.ionstorm.com WILL LOCONTO Dubbed Ion Storm's "Infernal Master of Noise, Will Loconto is responsible for the music in all of the game company's titles. He's currently scoring John Romero's upcoming opus, Daikatana. DIVERSO AIRSO HUNT IN day In & the 10/80 to 10 3 at 37th daveep tinued Grappling G. was the September. filleen- J'es- con. decapitation in the re. E. 10 s,& day, es haveries of IT !!!! MULT..."

"...game than tech implementation. Also, given the fan-base of Duke, the sales will, in all likelihood, be great. That fact helps to ease the pain of shelling out large bucks for the technology. 1.3.4 Daikatana 1.3.4.1 Goals Daikatana, the flagship title from Ion Storm, has a lot riding on it. It is John Romero's first offering since parting company with id, and it is the first game which will bear out the company's philosophy: design is law. With that in mind, it's clear that the game focus is on content and gameplay rather than on pure tech. The primary goal of Daikatana is to deliver a game to the player that is rich in carefully-crafted design and story. 1.3.4.2 Why licensing was sensible With the goal of the game so clearly focused on design, it was almost a..."

"...newly formed, taking an aggressive path to market makes a lot of sense. Serious time can be shaved off of the development process when you rely on tech that's already proven. 1.3.4.3 Benefits For Daikatana, utilizing an existing engine meant jumping into content creation immediately. Since Romero first created the design of the game in doc form, they already had a clear path defined for the game. Having..."

"...the game and gameplay. Also, given Romero's former association with id, he had intimate knowledge of the technology and could assess the Quake engine's viability better than almost anyone else. For Daikatana, there wasn't nearly as much guesswork involved. Of course, the greatest benefit is that the vast majority of the development time can be spent on content and implementing design, rather than wrestling with tech. 1.3.4.4 Problems Daikatana suffered some of the same problems as other Quake based games: they began developing under Quake 1 technology and decided that they had to switch over to Q2 tech-that meant a lot of extra work and a delay in the development schedule. Relying on existing technology does shoulder you with some limitations, and in the case of Daikatana, the design was so grand that it is difficult to realize all of the design visions within the tech. 1.3.4.5 Verdict For Daikatana, the verdict is clear: they made the best choice based upon the mission of their company. They are indeed spending the majority of time on content. For Daikatana, it is hoped that the "wow" come from the game experience, and not the tech, so being on that bleeding edge wasn't really a concern. 1.4 Questions to ask yourself Before you make any decisions about..."

"...the requisite number of sequels on hand, including Quake 2 com- ing from Activision (that's right, id is not involved), Hexen 2, Mechwarrior 3, Inter- state 77 and so forth. But the heavily hyped Daikatana, John Romero's first from his new company Ion Storm, didn't shine in the Eidos booth next to Tomb Raider 2. Face it, gang - everyone loves Lara Croft and will anxiously follow her short shorts through..."

"...action blockbusters DOOM and Quake, John has joined forces with Todd Hall and Tom Porter to forge Ion Storm Entertainment. Interviewed in our debut issue, John has indicated that he's toiling away on Daikatana, another first-person perspective shooter due 76 Computer Game Entertainment The Gorgon's Alliance was nearing release. out by Christmas. According to John, it'll "have a real cool story with multiple..."

"...mission state- ment, Wilson recently announced Ion Storm's long-awaited product lineup for 1997 and beyond. Building upon his success in the first-person, 3D gaming uni- verse, Romero is working on Daikatana, an action/adventure game purportedly containing a plot. Utilizing the 3D Quake engine originally developed by id Software, Daikatana is billed as "an action-packed adventure of time travel where the player's mission is to set history straight. The Daikatana is both the player's sacred samurai sword/weapon and time travel device that thrusts the gamer into the nucleus of medieval and futuristic warfare." By introducing various role-play- ing aspects John,..."

"...characters and a pumping Urban soundtrack, it literally comes alive for your enjoyment. EIDOSR I N T E R A C T I V Just make It back safe, D'arci don't worry about me! TM Will you be ready? The Daikatana Project had the unfortunate role of being the focus of a lot of publicity when lon Storm was founded. We kept quiet about our other titles and didn't advertise them and so they were free from public scrutiny, while with Daikatana we actually gave a ship date that was too ambitious and suffered some internal setbacks during development such as the changeover from the Quake1 technology to the Quake2 technology. The most important point to note is that it takes two to three years to create a blockbuster title; they don't just get knocked out in a year nowadays. Daikatana is named after a sword in the game but no one outside of lon Storm has seen it in action. What can you tell us about the Daikatana? The Daikatana is the sword at the center of everything that happens in the storyline in the game. Its misuse by Kage classic Romero [gameplay] deliberately hyper, handsomely rendered, and perpetually hurtling forward." " avault.com FOCUS ON ION STORM'S JOHN ROMERO AND DAIKATANA: Daikatana was due to ship a year ago, why the delay? Special Advertising Section Mishima and the clean-up needed to restore order to the game's universe is what the storyline is all about. When Hiro finally..."

"...non-power level - you can only hack and slash at objects and enemies. As you use the sword and gain experience, you will gain extra abilities much like when you pick up new weapons in the game. But the Daikatana will only get new abilities if you use it because when you dispatch an enemy, the sword gains the experience, not Hiro. Briefly tell us about the main character, Hiro Miyamoto's motivation in the game? Hiro's descendant, Usagi Miyamoto, created the Daikatana long ago for Osaka Mishima, Kage Mishima's ancestor, but decided not to give him the sword when it was completed because he used the finished sword to 63 AMMO Osaka's nemesis, Inshiro Ebihara, Mikiko's ancestor. After a fight atop Mount Fujiyama, Inshiro decimated Mishima's legions who were attempting to recover the sword. Inshiro fell into the volcano and the Daikatana was lost for ages. In the 25th century, Inshiro's descendant, Toshiro Ebihara, funds an expedition to find the lost Daikatana and after many years was successful in recovering it. Before Toshiro could investigate the powers locked within the Daikatana, Kage Mishima found out about its recovery and stole the sword. Kage used the Daikatana to go back through time and change the history of the Ebihara and Mishima family lines and thus Kage became immeasurably powerful while the Ebihara clan faded back into insignificance. Hiro is visited by Toshiro and asked to rescue his daughter, Mikiko, who was attempting to steal back the Daikatana from Mishima's fortress, and help her recover the Daikatana so that the sword could return to its rightful owners and the world can be restored to its original timeline. The game was developed using id's Quake technology, and looks incredible. What has the Daikatana [more]"

"...during Multiplayer Mode. eidos.com Special Advertising Section You mentioned sidekicks, can you expand on the two characters, Mikiko and Superfly, and how they will work in the game? While playing Daikatana, you will meet a couple of interesting characters that will join you on your quest to find the Daikatana and use it to vanquish the evil Kage Mishima. These two characters, Superfly Johnson and Mikiko Ebihara, are what we call sidekicks and are integral to the plot of the game. They help you fight enemies..."

"...Braveheart. Similarly, even a total Luddite will recognize the names Quake, Myst, and Ultima Online. And in much the same way that Waterworld's name will far outlive the memory of the actual film, SO will Daikatana be recalled The trouble with letting just anyone make a movie (or game) is that just anyone does for years to come. But what about those titles which don't have a massive advertising budget or a..."

"...ALLY You're Gaming POOL SHOOTOUTS EXPERT POOL 3D ULTRA COOL CHARLTON Oscar-Winner OFBABES Exclusive Gaming Pictorial, Oscar-Winner CHARLTON The from Carmack, Sid John Sizzling HOT VIDEOS, DAIKATANA! The Romero Designer Talks and StyleTips forGamers To FINAL VERDICT: This was, by far, the most radical consideration. The logo was bold, with strong manly lines, and was symbolic of the overhaul..."

"...2000 location.. Coastal opponents Same Car opponents car compare. NVIDIA GeFORCE 256 can show you the time of your life. DEUS EX TM ANACHRONOX EIDOS I N E R A C T I V eidos.com Anachronox, Daikatana, ION Storm names and logos are trademarks of ION Storm, L.P. All Rights Reserved. © 1999, 2000 of ION Storm. Glass Eidos, Studios. Eidos The Interactive ratings and icon is a trademark of the Interactive..."

"...to E3, though, and you'd have a fight on your hands. Because E3 sets the tone for the future of gaming-gamers see the products that will ship over the course of the next year, or, in the case of Daikatana, next few years. (Sorry, the game had just gone gold at press time and I'm desperate to make my "Daikatana's late joke" quota before it hits store shelves.) By the time you receive this issue, you'll be able to find all the hot E3 news at www.cdmag.com (and on our new sister sites, www.happypuppy.com..."

"...page to slowly reload. More significantly, though, Pong is apparently not the most popular of online titles these days, since the multiplayer room echoed like the silence after an announcement of Daikatana 2. Eventually, I gave up and slaked Bookmark You 00 Game my nostalgic thirst on a round or two of single- player paddle action. Sure enough, it's just as much fun as I remember. Which is to say,..."

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"...concept ludicrous or somewhere beyond cool, the demo for KISS Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child is a bizarrely cool first-person shooter by the team that managed to escape from the horror that became Daikatana. In fact, it's arguable that Psycho Circus is exactly the kind of game Daikatana was trying to be (and failed at): a throwback to the sim- pler days of DOOM. It's pure-action, with mass- es of dumb enemies rather than a few "intelli- gent" ones. Powered by the LithTech engine..."

"...that more is better-id's games (most recently Quake III Arena) have always been poster children for the "Keep It Simple, Stupid" design aesthetic, with a small assortment of well-balanced weapons. Daikatana had more variety, and look at how much good it did. Then again, the assortment of gadgets in No One Lives Forever is so unique, so weird, SO assorted it's difficult to fault them for going gleefully..."

"...yee can freakin Clup MADTOWN MADNESS www.microsoft.com/games/midtown2 Microsoft EVERYONE Fire up your electric gloves and watch the sparks fly! KISS Psycho Circus The Nightmare Child Former Daikatana defectors welcome gamers to the show W hen someone tells you about an action game based on an aging rock band that today's kids make fun of, the quality of said game is immediately cast in doubt...."

"...-Jeff Lackey FIFA 99 EA Sports www.easports.com Requirements: Windows 95/98, 133MHz Pentium or higher, 16MB of RAM, 4X CD-ROM . Multiplayer: 2-8 players, LAN, modem, serial COMPUTER GAMES 103 'DAIKATANA' Slash your way through time with the aid of your trusty sword. Chase down the evil Dr. Benedict through 4 dif- ferent eras. Advance in multiple skill levels such as Attack Power, Attack Speed,..."

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"...Virginia. Month of December 1998 Pounding (ION) Storm Article paints grim picture LE MANS IN OUR FEBRUARY ISSUE, WE REPORTED ON THE departures from ION Storm of key members of the ION team working on Daikatana, While ION was busy TORM replacing the team, the Dallas Observer was preparing a massive exposé on the inner workings of the company. In her article "Stormy Weather," which appeared in both the print..."

"...exorbitant spending and a lot of infighting. The article can be found at www.dallasobserver.com At press time, ION publisher Eidos Interactive had no comment about the article. John Romero, the designer of Daikatana and co- owner of ION, said in an interview on Computer Games Online (www.cdmag.com) that the press coverage and staff changes were hav- ing no effect on the game's development. He went on to discount..."

"...higher, 32MB of RAM, 4X CD-ROM Multiplayer: None As an encore to the hot holiday lineup of hits like EIDOS lineup that will blow you away this spring. On the action front, the highly anticipated Daikatana is well on its way to changing first person shooters forever. John Romero's team is putting the finishing touches on a game with more action, enemies, weapons, and environments than has previously..."

"...can be spun. John Romero, nearly as famous for his oft-granted interviews as for his groundbreaking work with id software, is good at spin. Regarding the recent departure of eight key members of the Daikatana development team, he says, "The new team is really real- ly cool. The game's already getting better, way better than it was. The old guys were becoming unmotivated. They were not happy, I guess and..."

"...seem immensely unperturbed. It's hard not to believe his implication that the defection of some top programmers to former ION CEO Mike Wilson's company Gathering of Developers was a good thing for Daikatana. But surely the upheavals, and the pressures from publisher Eidos to deliver a finished product, have forced ION to make some compromises? "We've cut out some monsters [from Daikatana], yeah," he says. "But there's still more than in any other game." He is convincingly sanguine. What are a few monsters to the game of the century, if not the millennium? No biggie. COMPUTER GAMES48..."

"...Defender and Scramble. They've got a private screening room equipped with digital THX. They've got cases of soda and candy spilling out everywhere you look. And, of course, they've got the games. Daikatana and Anachronox, which promise to revolu- tionize the genres of first-person shooter and role-playing games respec- tively. if they ever get finished. It's been over a year since Mike Wilson left ION to start Gathering of Developers just down the street, but it's only been a few months since the disenchanted Daikatana team left to join him. In the interim ION Storm also lost COO Bob Wright. Now ION and Wright are suing each other- Wright claiming that he was forced out SO he wouldn't reap the benefits of a proposed..."

"...by gaming BY SCOTT UDELL 32 Command Post Who was first? Will the original RTS game please stand up BY SCOTT UDELL MPUTER GAMES previews Star Trek: Klingon Academy news Partying with Hardware Daikatana Demo, Finally Legend of the Blade Master Maximum Overkill Warlords Battlecry Panzer General III Assault Werewolf: The Apocalypse USAF E World War reviews X-Wing Alliance Heroes of Might and Magic..."

"...rebound Colorblind Top 10 lists I to Nowhere Selling online real estate al merchandising running amok CINDY YANS star trek: klingon academy x-wing alliance eagle watch on the CD Baldur's Gate Daikatana Jeff Gordon XS Racing High Heat Baseball baldur's gate 40 The Hangar The last big-budget combat sim "Simu-wood" follows Hollywood again BY BEN CHIU ISSUE N . 103 Publisher Yale Brozen Editor..."

"...Director of Content Development, Entertainment, gamers are one of Conducent's main tar- get groups. The idea is to deliver advertising within games, whether online or offline, in a way that is both Daikatana demo, finally Beleaguered game makes appearance, but only on Mplayer ON FRIDAY, MARCH 12, THE MPLAYER-EXCLUSIVE MULTI- player demo of John Romero's Daikatana was finally released, about a month after it's original announced release and two weeks late for it's "revised" February release. The game, which has gone through a tumultuous development cycle that's..."

"...have the melo- drama down), but the Quake II- powered visuals are sharp, and the in-combat camera system is really slick. For those keeping score at home, this game drew much bigger crowds than Daikatana. Picture: Final Quake Fantasy Release Date: 1999 Braveheart Genre: Real-time Strategy The Pitch: All gamers die, but not every gamer truly lives. Will Red Lemon's real-time epic live up to its..."

"...fascinating action/role- playing hybrid. Will it live up to the standards of his prior cross- genre masterpieces? Picture: It actually shipping some- time in the next year Release Date: Winter 1999 Daikatana Genre: Eternally Delayed First-per- son Action The Pitch: What can you possibly say about lon Storm's flagship title? After all of these years of develop- ment, the only thing shown at E3 was deathmatch..."

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"...in America action role-playing games and a real-time strategy game, all based on the Quake engine. Eidos will be publishing all three of the games. The first game, due out later this year, is Daikatana, headed up by Romero himself. This first-person action game will take place in four different time periods. While focusingThe lon Storm team trying to look cool Virus is another odd title, being..."

"...meets Hexen, Die by the Sword is a 3D action game with elements of all three: detailed 3D environments, An sequel to Interplay's stealth strategy game that came out FALLOUT OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS DAIKATANA right after last Christmas, M.A.X. II has several new features. A true real-time mode has been added, and gamers can choose different complexity levels depending on the style of game (simpler rules..."

"...said to bring more personality and humor into the genre. Travel through towns, planets and dimen- sions collecting weapons and tech- nology that'll help you solve the game's puzzles. -Windows 95 Daikatana The first game from Doom and Quake designer John Romero, this 3D action game based on the Quake engine takes place in four different time periods. Talk about a high-concept plot: you're Hiro Miyamota..."

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