Duality shots +Art.......56kers beware....

**Virtuoso** · 05-08-2002

Some Duality art and shots...........A good idea of what's coming.......I posted these at the "OTHER SITE"....... but thought some people here would like to see a few shots from the promising title............

**Virtuoso** · 05-08-2002

Thanks to www.ign.com

**Xtopia** · 05-08-2002

Those are some sweet pics!

**Virtuoso** · 05-08-2002

**l Maximus l** · 05-08-2002

Wow!! What kind of game is Duality?

Great pics!

**Virtuoso** · 05-08-2002

You can expect the game to play similar to the famous Metal Gear Solid series. The focus of Duality will be mainly on action, with leveling abilities, and some other typical RPG elements are said to also make their way into the game. A technique used brilliantly by the PC world has been freedom, and freedom of quest. Duality will hope to take advantage of this technique by allowing you to choose the quest which your character will undertake, and when he will undertake it. The control scheme for the real world play, (in Duality you can venture into the cyber world as the “virtual being”) will be much like the Resident Evil control style with auto-aiming coming into play for the mercenary. While details are virtually nonexistent for the cyber world, it's understood that Duality will feature (or the devs at least plan to implement) a multiplayer deathmatch into the game. The AI in the game will also have a different slant on it, as the enemies will no longer have individual intelligence but rather intel which is more geared to the group of enemies. Meaning that how the group of enemies fares against you is how each individual villain will approach your character.

Duality will feature bump mapping, dynamic shadowing, realistic physical reactions by characters, and very high poly counts. Character models will be intricately detailed.

Through the course of the game your original character will encounter two other characters, both of which you will eventually be able to control. Each character brings their very own variation of play to the game and will in turn do some interesting genre crossing during play.

**Xtopia** · 05-08-2002

BTW, my favorite pic is the second one! It looks so reall!

**Ukyo** · 05-08-2002

I don't mind seeing these again.

Duality is high up on my anticipation list, edged out only by the likes of Brute Force and Steel Battalion.

Excellent.

**LynxFX** · 05-08-2002

This game looks to have high hopes to support widescreen as well. Always a plus in my book.

Nice screens Virtuoso.

**l Maximus l** · 05-08-2002

Is this a 3rd person shooter or a 1st person shooter? Or???

Wow, this is the first time I heard about this game... This and Strident have to be the most detailed games I have ever seen of it's kind! WOW!

**Virtuoso** · 05-08-2002

Wide screen is extra sweet on those extra large HDTV's that is so very true,,,,,,,,,,

It's 3rd person with 1st person options............and here is some more details for you.......... Yes it's the son as is Strident of MGS 1 and 2.............but true next gen MGS2........

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Play 3 characters who look and act in their own ways. Each character is played for the appropriate chapter of the game in the order of Mercenary, Hacker, and Virtual Being. Mercenary is the starting character, because he is played in the most conventional way. (like Metal Gear, Tenchu) Players will get used to the rules and controls of the game with him, then move on to the next characters who require more complicated style of gameplay. Each character’s skills and abilities improve as he/she levels up and various equipments, weapons, programs are acquired.

Each quest has the length of 20-40 minutes. Other than the quests involving the main plot, there are many other quests available just to enjoy the game and/or earn money and experience.

A quest never has a pre-set way to complete. Quests are designed to be played freely according to the user’s play-style and the chracter’s ability, and they all will be entertaining. (If mercenary is played by an action-mania, then he will destroy all the enemies and obstacles getting in his way. If the player wants more brain-stimulating gameplay, he will be sneaking around, avoiding battles, and trapping opponents.)

A futuristic city (New York, maybe?) serves as the backdrop, and it is not just a group of tall buildings. Structures and inhabitants are created as close to reality as possible. In-door spaces (quests) and out-door spaces (travel) are integrated without loading time. There are elements of time and weather.

Even when a stage is visitd twice by different characters, it is played and experienced through a different route (depending on the style and ability) each time.

Multiplay deathmatch is available. Well-balanced player characters will duke it with their own unique selection of equipments and skills. There are plans to make the omnipotent Virtual Being a gamemaster, as in board games.

**Xaminor** · 05-08-2002

Very nice indeed.

**SnOoPy** · 05-08-2002

wOw those screenshotsare awesome. When is this game gonna be release

GRAVEDIGGER · 05-08-2002

This game looks tyte! This is the second time that i've seen some screenshots of the game and this time around i really want this game now that i've seen and read what its about

Thanx for the screenshots Virtuoso.

Untill next time...

**Virtuoso** · 05-08-2002

It's said to be xxxclusive for the XBOX and PC and is set for November............with all the other great top notch games..........What a fall it will be.

This and Strident along with the Matrix game sure do cover the cyber-punk gamestyle, offspring from the MGS style games. As of now I am even more excited about this one then Strident. And that's saying alot..........

**MixMasta** · 05-08-2002

thanks for the info

**mil** · 05-08-2002

Dying for this game. I think it's going to be something really special, I hope they show it at E3. Great info as always Virtuoso.

**Virtuoso** · 05-08-2002

Anytime guys............

Just cannot wait until E3 for some real sweet new details, this is one promising game...........

**DVDGNZ** · 05-09-2002

Is this game based off of Shadowrun?! I hope MS makes a huge RPG like Morrowind using the Shadowrun setting!

**Virtuoso** · 05-09-2002

That would be a nice idea.....but we will have to settle for EGO, Kotor, and Morrowind for that, I think I can live with those games..............

Game story................

We will try to tell you something about the game story but without revealing the whole plot, since we don't want to spoil the surprise that hides in any new game. You must imagine a city in a future, maybe not very faraway, where companies control the lives of common people and technology is misused for human selfishness and greed. Here the reality is formed by two alternative and parallel sides, the real space and the cyber space, that coexist and are influenced mutually. In this cyber-punk setting, the adventures of our three principal protagonists: a Mercenary, a Hacker and a Virtual Being, develops. All of them have totally different abilities and methods of fighting as also are different the goals that they follow.
The Mercenary is an action figure in strict sense and his goal is earn money to buy better weapons and implants. To do this, he carry out quests for any client, without caring their moral standard or position. Thanks to him we will become a skilfully and secretly cyber implanted as a white collar thief, but lethal and merciless in combat. You will have to plan your incursions in strongly guarded enclosures. Once inside, you will have to complete the mission entrusted, in your own style, using the action or the stealth.
The Hacker has special abilities in cyberspace. She can cross the real world and the cyber space with ease. In the real world she must obtain information to make her incursions in the net safer, though she has to infiltrate and move around with stealth since it is not her natural environment. But once a computer terminal within the enemy facility is reached she is capable of infiltrating into the net, solving enigmas and recovering the most valuable information. But she will have to act carefully: when she is connected to a net-system, her body will remain exposed in the real world, making her vulnerable to an ambush. So she has to place traps and sensors around her. Usually the deeper a terminal is located the more powerful it is, but more physical danger exit.
The Virtual Being is the net himself; an entity born inside its interior (originally he is a scientist whose soul has been transferred to the cyber-space before his body was damaged, remaining there caught. At first, he thinks he is just like any other avatar -a real person's incarnation in the cyberspace- but as the game progresses his true powers are awakened. In spite of the fact that he's a program and he has no physical form, he will be capable of controlling the net and any object of the real world that is connected to it, since he knows all its secrets. He is quite powerful in the virtual world and even he's capable of influencing the real world.