[FPS]Bakers Dozen Announced!

Biohazzard56 · 2004-04-12, 03:40 PM

Gearbox and Ubisoft are making a new WW2 Themed Shooter called Bakers Dozen, it looks to be using the Unreal Warfare engine, notice it is not announced yet but it will be shortly and the main site already has screenshots. Hopefully Gearbox wont fuck it up after the trainwreck that was Halo PC. Here is the site:

Baker's Dozen

Rbstr · 2004-04-12, 04:28 PM

hmmm, more games i need to get but do not have the money for, damn i wish games wer $10 a piece i could get all 5 that i want/need

Kyonye · 2004-04-12, 04:55 PM

Graphics doesn't look too bad....we just gotta wait a bit until more on the game gets here.

Smaug · 2004-04-12, 05:07 PM

Good god, another one? I wish the game industry would catch a hint and move on to a different setting in history.

ChewyLSB · 2004-04-12, 05:12 PM

That's the problem though, there aren't many other time periods which you're able to make a good FPS from. Anything before WW2 is too simple. Imagine a WW1 FPS. Oh boy, experience the thrills of trench warfare while you avoid rats in your sleep. The Persian Gulf War is probably too controversial and probably too unbalanced to be a realistic shooter. Vietnam was too filled with guerilla warfare to create fun FPS's (BattleField: Vietnam is the only good Vietnam shooter I know of), so that leaves WW2 and futuristic shooters, which is what almost all shooters are now.

Kyonye · 2004-04-12, 05:14 PM

FPS's don't have many wars to work with that contained guns in them. besides, WWII FPS's are fun to me, and many other people.

Smaug · 2004-04-12, 05:29 PM

Oh I agree its fun, but wouldn't you like a little variety? You could make a ww1 shooter work, you can make a vietnam shooter work. Also the controversial bit about the gulf war is understandable, but there already are games like that (Desert combat). Its just that it gets boring after you've played the same mission in 3 different games.

Mr1337Duck · 2004-04-12, 05:42 PM

Yeah. Or imagine a civil war or revolution war game.

"Squad, open fire!"
"Fuck! I missed!"
*spends 30 seconds loading another round*

ChewyLSB · 2004-04-12, 05:46 PM

Desert Combat was a mod created by an independent mod-maker, and the mod-maker isn't under the constant threat of being sued. While, yes, you could make a WW1 or Vietnam shooter work, it's just so much easier and more fun to make a WW2 Shooter.

Fragmatic · 2004-04-12, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by ChewyLSB

Desert Combat was a mod created by an independent mod-maker, and the mod-maker isn't under the constant threat of being sued. While, yes, you could make a WW1 or Vietnam shooter work, it's just so much easier and more fun to make a WW2 Shooter.

They've now been hired by EA to make an expansion/mod/whatever for BF:V

I Hate Pants · 2004-04-12, 05:51 PM

They've now been hired by EA to make an expansion/mod/whatever for BF:V

Sources plznthku

Double post! Asswipes!

Fragmatic · 2004-04-12, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by I Hate Pants

Sources plznthku

Double post! Asswipes!

Trauma Studios homepage - http://www.traumastudios.com/

Edit - Ok, they're hired by DICE instead and are making something new, most likely an expansion as they don't have the knowledge of creating an engine.

Smaug · 2004-04-12, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by ChewyLSB

Desert Combat was a mod created by an independent mod-maker, and the mod-maker isn't under the constant threat of being sued. While, yes, you could make a WW1 or Vietnam shooter work, it's just so much easier and more fun to make a WW2 Shooter.

I highly doubt you are going to be sued for making a game about the gulf war, whether you are a large corporation or small one. Hell there was a mod for ut2k3 I think(could be wrong) where you were a business man in the wtc trying to get out without burning, and it let you jump out of the building too. If those people didn't get sued I would say that a gulf war game would never cause legal action.

ChewyLSB · 2004-04-12, 05:54 PM

Ok, but even so, you can't make a realistically balanced game out of the gulf war.

Smaug · 2004-04-12, 06:26 PM

Who said anything about realistic. Purely realistic games are boring. Games like CoD/MOH/BF are far from pure realism. Sure they have the same weapons, and same battles, but the force strength isn't the same, the weapon ROFs are usually changed for balance, and both teams usually get the same vehicles that one side sometimes just didn't have at all. Is DC realistic? In terms of weapons yes, in terms of victories, hell no. The iraqis have just as much of a chance to win at a DC game than the americans.