MDK2 HD

[ikonoklast]

http://interplay.com/about/article.php?id=50

(June 24th, 2010) — Interplay Entertainment Corp. and Beamdog partner to bring MDK2 to the Nintendo Wii™ and MDK2 HD to the PC.

“It is a great pleasure to announce that we are returning to the adventures of Kurt Hectic, Dr. Hawkins and the 6-legged gun-toting robotic dog Max,” said Hervé Caen, CEO of Interplay. “MDK2 was a great title to work on and we're happy to have some of the original team working on these new versions,” seconded Trent Oster, co-Founder of Beamdog.

MDK2 for Wii™ is expected to be released during coming Winter and is planned for electronic distribution through Nintendo's WiiWare™ service. MDK2 HD will follow on the PC through the Beamdog digital distribution platform.

Intervju sa Trentom Osterom:
http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/06...co-founder-talks-about-launching-beamdog-and/

Trent Oster was one of the first people who worked at BioWare when it first started and with the exception of a year off from the company he worked at BioWare until his departure back in 2009. While at BioWare he worked on a number of games including leading the development of Neverwinter Nights. Now Oster has launched a new company called IdeaSpark Labs that has already spawned a couple of projects.

One is MDK2 HD, an upcoming downloadable graphical revamp of BioWare's action game that was originally released in 2000 by Interplay. The other is Beamdog, a newly launched PC game download service. In his first interview since the MDK2 HD announcement, Oster talks about his early plans for the game, how Beamdog will be different than other PC game download operations and more.

How did the idea come about to release MDK2 HD?

We had talked about the concept of graphically updating some of the great games we had worked on and it seemed like a solid idea. We wanted to keep the heart of the title intact, but just fix up the bits that look dated, essentially giving the game an overhaul. MDK2 was kind of a logical target and when Interplay contacted us about a Wii version we quickly signed on for the HD version as well.

We are assuming the "HD" part of the title means that this game will be getting a graphical overhaul for its release. Can you go into detail on what's being revised for this new version?

I can't really go into a lot of detail as we are still going through the various options. All I can really say is that there are a lot of new shader techniques that fit the MDK2 art style quite well.

Will there be any new content or features added to MDK2 HD?

Our main goal is to not mess with the fun. MDK2 was a fun game, and we want to ensure we don't mess with that. MDK2 was also way hard on the Dreamcast version. So hard it is the only game to ever make me break a controller. I actually snapped the Dreamcast controller, popping the VMU across the room when I was playing the Max levels, so some tuning will be in our to-do list. As for new content, Jinkies, I don't have a clear answer for that. We'll play it by ear and see what the game needs when our development nears completion.

What's the current status of the game and when will it be released?

We're still in talks about the release date, but we don't plan on taking forever. We're motivated and focused, so we've talked about a target of 2011.

Are there any plans to go back and revamp any other of Interplay's games for the PC?

Another excellent question. Given the various games I worked on during my time at Bioware and the crop of talented people I know it isn't entirely out of the question. I think a lot of Interplay and Bioware titles would be great for an overhaul.

 

[DieH@rd]

Cuo sam za ovo ranije, nadam se da ce srediti one dosadne nivoe sa Doktorom.

 

[Ivan®]

Mislis da ce u "HD-u" biti manje dosadni?

 

[zeko]

Zamislite samo Baldurs Gate 2 HD

 

[undefined]

BG2 ima podrzane blesave rezolucije, samo ne wide. I samo sto interfejs postane sicusan. BG2 ima doduse gomilu modova tako da se ne bih cudio da HD widescreen modovi sa uvecanim UI postoje. Googlaj ako te bas interesuje.

 

[zeko]

Nisam mislio (samo) na rezoluciju, vec na rimejk igre... Kao MDK2 HD o kome je tema - stara igra, a nova grafika.

Given the various games I worked on during my time at Bioware and the crop of talented people I know it isn't entirely out of the question. I think a lot of Interplay and Bioware titles would be great for an overhaul.

 

[Bob Marli]

Bas me je obradovala ova vest, jedna od igara koje se secam ko da sam je pre neki dan igrao!
Bravo za ovaj potez!

 

[Mare]

Mada ja ne kapiram da li bas ima potrebe ovo da se radi.

Najveci problem zapravo danas je sto gomila dobrih igara verovatno nece raditi na Win7, a neke ni na XP-u.

Malo mutne texture, who care u tome i jeste car tih igara. Inace MDK2 je delovao solidno ali se igra nikad nije prodala u nekom broju, sto ne ocekujem ni za ovu da se desi...

u svakom slucaju dokaz da su ostali bez ideja.

 

[ABET]

Meni je bio bolji kec.

 

[Stojcha]

Meni je bio bolji kec.

Tebi je uvek neki drugi prvi treci deo bolji tako da ti nisi relevantan pokazatelj. :d

 

[ABET]

Pa šta da radim kada uvek ispadne tako. Kec mi je bolji zato što je originalna igra i zato što najviše gotivim domara. Ker jeste kul zamišljen ali me je smarao a nivoi sa doktorom su bezveze.

Znate koje igre želim da vidim u HD izdanju?

Descent 3 ili Forsaken

 

[MAD_MUzzY]

StarLancer HD ... (((