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XboxGamers
03-27-2002, 12:23 PM
This game looks interesting!

Link: http://www.tothegame.com/article.asp?id=48


Ubi Soft, one of the world’s largest video game developers & publishers, today announced Deathrow, a fast-paced team combat sport designed and developed by Swedish game developer SouthEnd Interactive, exclusively for the Microsoft® Xbox. In Deathrow there are no rules and full-contact aggression is not only legal, it’s required! The fastest, toughest players are victorious and the slow and weak are defeated. The game combines the lightning-fast gameplay of third-person action games with the cooperative team play and gritty roughness of rugby, offering a unique combat sport experience.

“Deathrow has the perfect combination of aggressive hand-to-hand combat, third person action and cooperative team play to appeal to action, fighting and sports gamers alike,” said Anne Blondel, director of third-party development, Europe, at Ubi Soft Entertainment. “This is an incredibly competitive game that will definitely pump up your heart rate as you experience all of the intensity and action it has to offer.”

The object of Deathrow is for you to win matches by whatever means necessary, either by scoring as many points as possible before time runs out, or by severely injuring your opponents and removing them from the field of combat. As the game begins, two teams of four players square off in a combat arena to compete in an intense, unmediated slugfest to determine the champion. As you engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat with highly intelligent AI opponents seeking retribution for not only themselves, but also for their fallen teammates, you’ll soon understand the sacrifices necessary to become the supreme team of the league.

Deathrow has a team management component allowing you to customize your own team according to your style of play. You can build your players’ statistics from match to match while gaining speed and power bonuses. Injured players can be healed between rounds if you have enough money, or you must save your winnings to buy them back. With more than 130 unique characters, dozens of holds, and over 800 base animations, Deathrow is graphically immersive and intense.

Deathrow also features:

Multiplayer support for up to 8 players

Highly detailed characters, modeled using more than 55 bones each for life-like movement, and up to 7000 polygons each for a realistic character shape.

Facial animation capable of blinking and talking, and expressing pain, anger, happiness and other moods

More than 15 combat sports arena locations, each with their own unique architecture and gameplay elements

13 playable teams, each with their own background, special abilities, and motivation for competing

Automatic victory if you remove all of your opponent’s players from the field of combat

Xbox effects such as bump-mapping, specular lighting and bumped reflection mapping

The ability for users to import their own music

Deathrow is scheduled to ship to retail shelves worldwide in Autumn 2002.

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DZNUTZ
03-27-2002, 12:31 PM
yea..i read a small write up about this game in the new edition of xbox nation....if they are able to achieve what their preaching..i'll definately snag this one

Toder
03-27-2002, 12:37 PM
This game looks extremly interesting. I like they idea of the no rules and full contact team fighting.

Crazy Joe
03-27-2002, 01:12 PM
that looks totally kick ass, no doubt i will be picking it up.

l Maximus l
03-27-2002, 01:21 PM
Wow...This game looks like a pretty sweet game! So far, it has me pumped up! :) Thanks for the info!!!

DZNUTZ
03-27-2002, 02:01 PM
i just noticed in the new xbox nation issue their calling this game Blitz Disc Arena... hopefully deathrow is the updated name....sounds better to me...

oh yea..also...for the fans of NBA street (EA) out their...theirs a similar title in the works titled street hoops being developed by black ops/activision....(blk ops did knockoutkings and march madness)...and is do out this summer.....the one screen shot i saw looks decent.

Huckleberry
03-27-2002, 03:08 PM
these games just keep looking better and better. i remember the jump in game quality when n64 came out and how everyone kept thinking that it was amazing where gaming had gone to. the xbox hasn't even been tapped into fully yet, and we're already drooling!

i watched the morrowind movie...it's beautiful. then, i read the peter molynieux article on project ego...it's literally a different world, complete in how you choose to live your life. pics like the ones posted for this game are amazing in their clarity. i just can't wait to see what we're playing in a year or two. i may never leave my house again (thank God for peapod!)

Hugh_Jass
03-27-2002, 03:39 PM
It sounds like a fun version of Fusion Frenzy.

X-Factor
03-27-2002, 03:53 PM
It looks like a no holds barred, fight to the death, non-stop party game!!! http://www.lamer.net/headbang.gif

X-Factor
03-27-2002, 03:54 PM
I can't even imagine how many people could be running around on the same screen, at the same time, with system link!

l Maximus l
03-27-2002, 04:13 PM
Originally posted by X-Factor
I can't even imagine how many people could be running around on the same screen, at the same time, with system link!

By the way, that new smiley in the post before the one I am quoting is hilarious! But, in response to this thread, I think the game supports up to 8 players :)