Interview and shots from Sept 2

9/2/99

We've got half a dozen new Metal Fatigue shots this week and a couple of interview questions answered by Jason Hough of Zono. Thanks to Kevin Malone for coming up with the questions.

Some kind of shockwave

Shielding-love the lighting effect

Kevin: "Question number one is whether or not you can fight against the same side (Rimtech us Rimtech, Mil-agro us Mil-agro ,Neuropa us Neuropa). If so how will you tell one side from the other. Would they be different colors, or some other way. This would mainly be for multiplayer games, because they say your going to be able to have eight players at once over a LAN."

Jason Hough: Yes, you absolutely can fight aganist the same side. In all cases the enemy is a different color than you. In single player missions, occasionally you must fight aganist your own, and in these cases we pick a color for the enemy. In multiplayer, no two players can be the same color - no matter what side they've selected.

Charge!

Close in and beat 'em up

Kevin: "The second Question is about customization of the combots and vehicles. Will there be any way for people to make there there own models for use in the game. This could be just custom paint jobs (different divisions inside the CorpoNations) or new 3D models. These would most likely be just cosmetic changes, if you made the entire torso one giant barrel it would still do the same amount of damage."

Jason: Well, we wont be including any tools with the game that allow this kind of customization, but I suppose if someone figures out our file structure they could write some tools to extract models and textures, and then allow mods to them.

All of our models are created and animated in Lightwave 3D, and the texture maps are all drawn in Photoshop, so there really is no Zono created tool for doing this kind of thing that we could include.

Rejected!

Doesn't look good for RimTech

Want more info on Metal Fatigue? Don't forget to read our Metal Fatigue Preview and our Metal Fatigue Interview for the scoop on this promising game. Those articles include older screenshots as well. Stay tuned - we'll have more brand new eye candy next week!