Well it's been over 3 months since my last snippet - and how the time races by. Loads of hassle at work has tied me up recently and I picked up an old PC game to unwind with in the evenings - got 'Saboteur' by Pandemic for the PC. It's been a real revelation and has kept me going for the last few weeks. Sure it's got plenty of glitches - they never ironed out all the performance bugs before the studio got closed down - but what a blinder. It won't be everyones cup of tea but if you cross Tomb Raider with Hidden & Dangerous 2 and mix in Mafia 1 - you get 'Saboteur' - where else can you scale a 150 ft high tower to shoot down a Zeppelin with a rocket launcher?. I've enjoyed it so much I decided to try and recreate a little bit of Paris for RGB2 - didn't think it was possible till I started exploring the non destructable buildings in the GEM from the Africa section. Manged to clag the top half of a windmill on one of the buildings and it looked like it might be possible. The video only shows the WIP but the streets look half decent now before all the prop dressing gets done so I'm quite excited. I envision some stealth tasks - some car theft and the sanction of a highly prized enemy general.Julian will need to help the Resistance and there will be NPCs to work with a bit like the old FoW. I'm not sure if Paris had trams in '42 /'43 but I wanted civilian traffic on the streets at night and only trams fit in with the GEM entities. Hope you like the power wires criss crossing the streets for the trams - lining up the components took ages but I really think it adds a bit extra to the map. Imagine getting run down by a random stopping tram just as you are trying to put a complicated ambush plan together - that's why I needed the extra element of a map with trams on. This is the final bonus mission for RGB2 so I'm off now to continue dressing the Paris map and maybe take a medicinal drop of whiskey to keep the rain out...
A new map for RGB2 (Paris)
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