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This is from August of THIS year! :yes:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/view_revi ... tformId,3/
Madppiper & Remdul, did you get my PM? :)
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I guess y'all did.. :?
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Rather late in the game for a review, but at least not all negative.
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Rebel, I see this as just one example of the gaming community beginning to re-examine Trespasser in the context of all the real world physics type games that are just about the hit the market. Half-Life2, and Far Cry being just two examples of the so called "new" generation of games. This isn't the only "review" I've recently seen that is taking a second look at Trespasser and starting to realize just how far ahead of it's time it was.
I believe the day is soon coming when the gaming industry as a whole will take another look, and begin to appreciate Trespasser for all of it's ground breaking innovations rather than it's admitted weaknesses. :)
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Well, I think the original Trespasser Team and their work has finally
reached that moment of vindication, Dan. About 4 yrs past due.
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You and I and the rest of this community know (and knew) that already. It takes some though, a little longer than others.... :wink:
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Post by machf »

How about a couple old previews?

Trespasser: Walk on the Wild Side

Trespasser: Tracking the Beast

They give some interesting insight...
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I remember reading those; always liked the enthusiam that they
showed in those interviews.
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A couple interesting paragraphs:
Some clues are rolled into the environment. For instance, scientists leave notes to each other on blackboards before the labs are abandoned. In a nod to the movie War Games, a password is written on the extension of an office desk. Additional background and clues are provided by Richard Attenborough's mellifluous narration of Dr. Hammond's memoirs. Although it may not make it into the final product, among Sir Attenborough's recordings was a heartbreaking recital of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias"--a fitting postscript to Dr. Hammond's Jurassic Park if ever there was one.

Puzzle Me This
Grossman describes Trespasser as an action game with enough puzzle elements to also make it an adventure game. "But we're working really hard not to make any kinds of puzzles that you can solve by chance or brute force or just by searching," Grossman explains. "We try not to have too much stuff based on coordination. You should be able to think about a situation and use tools to solve it. It's all about using physics, the rules of this physical world, to accomplish goals."

One such puzzle involves dumping over a rickety trailer by rocking it from within. Another stumper requires pushing a board across a gap, walking over it, and then pulling the board behind you to cross another gap. A particularly insidious puzzle, which fits in perfectly with the game's emphasis on physics, requires you to actually use a fully functional scale to compare the weight of some electronic components.
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Post by MikeTheRaptor »

Thats actually very interesting!!! Who remembers that picture from the Computer room we found with the scale in it?! :yes:
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Post by machf »

So that is it... I found the original source of that picture a couple of days ago.
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yeah,i very just review. :wink:
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Amazon.com Trespasser Windows $19.99
Interesting, this is more than I paid for Tres back in 1999...
The game does create an interesting constant feeling of suspense and vulnerability that you don't usually find...
It's why I like this game.
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Post by machf »

Doing some more Internet archaeology, I found another old review:

http://web.archive.org/web/199902031032 ... respasser/

This one was from the old 3D Gaming Network site. An interesting review, very well-done, I'd say...
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Post by machf »

Yet another one:

http://web.archive.org/web/199806150049 ... er_1.shtml

This one's from the first preview of the game at OGR. Page 6 is missing, but at the very end of page 7 there's something quite interesting:
[Picture: This shot represents just one small arm of the Geo-Thermal plant.]

Written by: Chris Jensen
Date: May 14, 1998
Too bad the thumbnail is missing, as is the page with the screenshot. But maybe someone could try to contact the reviewer...
Now, attempting to load the 6th page redirects you to http://www.cdmag.com, so maybe that means they have the preview archived somewhere...
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