Interstellar Marines mod for Quake III Arena

Interstellar is a futuristic/marine/realism Quake3 mod, it started as a Half-Life mod but has been moved to the Quake3 engine because we thought the end result would be better. The Half-Life engine just cant pull the same visuals that quake3 can, and without 9-way blending in HL "or something", the player models would suck. The model blending has since been released in a sdk but were happy we went q3a, only down side is: Alot more people have Half-Life.

We are all realism fans, but we will try _hard_ not to make, "just another clone". While most online realism games are great, the team though that there was plenty of room for improvement, also the realism-terror has been milked dry so we found a better theme for the mod "we think/hope ; )". Some of the games we get our inspiration from includes "MoH:AA, CS, Halo, AVP2, SOF2 and many more".

All of us are Sci-fi fans so it came naturally to place the mod in a futuristic universe battling marines against each others, all though this might change because we havent actually done the "story" yet.

We will start with 2 models pr side, one male and one female, we are trying to make the models as different as possible while still keeping them at the same form/size, we really want a visual games so i hope we can make the armor and helmet actually appear on the players body.

We hope to take the dark-shadow camping out of the gameplay while still having some sneak-hiding for those fun close combat ambushes. I think this will be accomplished with dark/creepy maps and relative bright players/weapons.

The weapons we make will have some resemblance to real life weapons so players can get a weapon, shoot it and say, ahh okay this is kinda like a mp5 or whatever. As with the armor/helmet we would like the weapon the player is carying to actually show on the players body.

We are planning for fast paced "round based" gameplays. The first mission type will be Retrieval, where one team defends and the other retrieves an artifact and return it to the start position. Another map in progress is a ffa type map with a sort of king of the hill twist, you have to kill ppl and collect xxxxx amount of money and escape to win, you will start with nothing and can when you choose, enter a shop and buy weapons.
We have lots of ideas for gametypes, and most of the original Q3 gametypes "FFA-TOURNEY-TDM-CTF" will still be in the game.