Topic: The Haunted wins the Make Something Unreal Contest!

[idolminds]

Awesome!

$50,000 and a full Unreal Engine 3 license, which they are going to use to put out The Haunted: Hells Reach! A commercial followup to the mod, kind of like what Tripwire did with Red Orchestra.

The final order was:

   1. The Haunted
   2. The Ball
   3. Angels Fall First: PlanetStorm
   4. Prometheus
   5. Hazard: The Journey of Life

The only one of those I havent tried is Angels Fall First, which looks awesome. I want to reinstall UT3 to check out the newest versions of all these mods.

[Xessive]

Amazing stuff. The Haunted certainly deserves the win, among the many great mods out there!

I tried Angels Fall First: PlanetStorm, it was alright. It lacked some polish but it had a decent foundation. I'm not familiar with the AFF universe but I imagine I would have been much more excited if I had been.

[Quemaqua]

I so want to see Haunted as a retail product.  But if it's Steam-only, I will find them and burn their genitals with fucking napalm.

[idolminds]

I already posted on their forum asking them to not make it Steam exclusive. Though they did mention they are aiming at a $20 price point and want to release on PC and PS3. Hope that works out for them.

[Quemaqua]

As long as it isn't Steam-only, I'll buy a copy for sure.

[Quemaqua]

Well, it's out. Twenty bucks on Steam. Haven't looked at anything else, but the trailer looks awesome, and 8 big levels with 30 weapons! They advertise free future updates and DLC and it's moddable, has support for custom levels. And there's a humans versus demons multiplayer mode.

I really liked what they did before, more than I probably should have. I'll have to get this at some point.

The shit part? All I have now is my laptop. My PC's dead. Lame.

[idolminds]

I noticed this showed up on Impulse as well but it doesn't say what kind of DRM it uses. Usually if a game requires Steam its pretty well marked but I haven't seen confirmation on this. EDIT: And its THQ? Things do not look good.

Its fun co-op, at least the mod version was. Would be cool to check out what they did with an actual budget.