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Editorial Electronic Entertainment Expo [E3] is upon us. The biggest trade show for the video game industry and the vari‑ ous beggars and hang‑ ers on [yours truly included] head down to LAto put all the games, con‑ soles, peripherals and assorted cell phone handsets to the test. It’s heavy punishment onthe thumbs, the eyes and the ears, to make no mention of the brain and liver. Short of in-depth comparative research, an industry trade show is as good a litmus test for the state of said industry as you can find. And as trade shows go, E3is big, loud, bright and expensive. It's an outward manifestation of an already booming industry, and one that's expected to continue growing. In high tech and entertainment, there's always one area that's doing well while others seem to lag behind By way of example, DVDs and the industries that sur‑ round them, the filming. their manufacture, the distri‑ bution channels and so on are making a good go of it while traditional music sales at retail continue to slump and the industries that surround them are forced to look elsewhere. Paid music downloads are said to be reviving the single, but at $1 a piece and with often too little reason to purchase the rest of the album, they've farfrom filled the gap left by CDsales at retail. Similarly, the booming trade in computers and com‑ The

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With some grey-market modifications, the Xbox's PC architecture can be fully explored, turning it into an all‑ singing, all-dancing media server. I believe that once the PSP reaches the same level, it will become the ultimate handheld. With such a bril‑ liant screen, WiFi, and Memory stick media interfaces, the potential is astounding. What the manufacturers need to realize is that if they're not astute enough to explore the potential of their hardware, there are plenty of indie programmers out there who are more than happy to do it for them and release the results to the public.

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puter hardware has tapered off, coming in line with the appliances and other consumer commodities they have a lot in common with. Those who attended Comdex, the once go-to comput‑ er show in the early to mid nineties can attest to the fact that the show and the industries it represented were booming. Tech companies, if the grizzled jour‑ nalists are to bebelieved, threw elaborate parties and spent hundreds ofthousands of dollars or even more wowing the crowds at the annual show. Now Comdex is dead, replaced in part by a bunch of lesser computer-centric shows. Those involved in the boom times have since moved on to the Consumer Electronics Show [CES, in Las Vegas in January], TechXNY and various others. E3, whose roots can betraced to Comdex ‐ in an out of the way hall at Comdex to be exact, according to Doug Lowenstein, president ofthe Interactive Digital Software Association [IDSA], the group that puts on E3‐ outstripped its parent show and has outlived it. The booths themselves, while they're only three-day structures, cost in the millions to erect. How long will the show and the industry it represents continue to boom? Only time will tell. With manufacturers gearing up for the next genera‑ tion of game systems though, all that remains to be seen is how much gamers are buying.

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BFG GeForce 6800 GTOC BFG is acompany that was founded by former Visiontek executives.so it is only fitting that we'd be comparing the two companies' high~end PCI Express graphics cards with each another. The BFG GeForce GBUOGT DC, as its name implies. comes overclocked right out of the box. Equipped with a custom copper heatsink LED fan that adjusts speeds to temperature settings. the BFG GeForce BBOUGT has a core clock speed 20MHz higher than the XFX GeForce 680051 However, like the XFX GeForce GSOOGT, the BFG GeForce SSOOGT DC has a weak bundle and fails to include any games in the package. Like all other GeForce 88006T PCI Express cards, the BFG GeForce

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feel like one card isn't offering the performance you're looking for, you have the ability to buy another and put it into an nForce 4 SLI mother‑ board. This will give you around 40 per cent more performance, similar to what we saw with the XFX GeForce GSDOGT cards in SLI. The BFG uniquely offers warranty and support features. You get a life‑ time warranty and round the clock tech support in the USand Canada, so someone will always be there to help you through any problems you encounter. Needless to say, BFG has the best graphics card warranty and support operation in North America. From a performance standpoint, the card ran well against its Visiontek Radeon X850XT counterpart, performing faster in Doom 3 and Chronicles of Riddick tests while the Visiontek Radeon XBSOXT took our Half-Life 2 and Far Cry benchmarks. However, because ofthe significant price difference between the two, the BFG GeForce BBDDGT 0C provides a better overall value, evident by its higher performance-to-price ratio.

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XFX GeForce GBOOGT The NVIDIA GeForce BSUUGT is arguably the most popular mainstream gaming GPU on the market today, and by lookingat howthe XFX version of this card stacks up to the AT1 Radeon X70lJ Pro, it is easy to see why. In short. the eight-pixel-pipeline-based XFX GeForce BEUDGT outper‑ formed the ATI Radeon XPDD Pro in everything but Half-Life 2, and even the Half~Life 2 tests were very close. The card's Doom 3 performance even rivalled that of the Sapphire Radeon XBDUXL Ultimate Edition, a card double it's price! The XFX GeForce EBOOGT's compelling price and excellent perform‑ ance give it the highest performance-to-price ratio of all the cards tested - a ratio that is more than double that ofthe XFX GeForce SBOOGT in SLI. Not only does the card offer great performance at a moderate price point, it also includes three full version games. X2: The Threat, Commandos 3: Destination Berlin. and Moto GP.

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ATl Radeon X700 Pro ATI‘s Radeon XPOD Pro is aneight-pier-pipeline graphics card designed for the mainstream market. It is the only All card featured in this roundup built and sold by ATI, but nevertheless it’s second rate when compared to the XFX GeForce BEDOGT. Simply put, the only game the Radeon XPDU Pro had an advantage in was Half-Life 2, but even there, the card only performed about five per cent faster than the XFX GeForce EGOOGT. The ATI Radeon X?00 Pro bundle is a standard affair, much like that of the XFX GeForce BBUDGT and Visiontek Radeon XBSDXT. with just the standard cables, adapters and manuals one would expect with a new graphics card. Even though the Radeon X700 Pro is cheaper than the XFX GeForce BBDOGT, the XFX card offers a higher performance-to-price ratio due to its commanding performance lead overthe Radeon XPOD Pro.

Concluslon After all is said and done, it is easy to pinpoint the two sweet spots in our roundup: the Sapphire Radeon XBOUXL Ultimate Edition and the XFX GeForce BBOOGT. The Sapphire Radeon XBUDXL Ultimate Edition really is the "ultimate" high-end graphics card to own, combining a solid bundle, excellent performance and nearly silent operation all in one package. Sapphire truly found the perfect GPU for the latest instalment of its Ultimate Edition franchise. The XFX GeForce EBUOGT is on equally good footing, but in the main‑ stream markets. Like Sapphire, the XFX is bringing an excellent bundle to the table, including three full version games. However, the most impressive feature of the XFX GeForce SGOOGT is its overall perform ance ‐ it towers over the Radeon XPUO Pro in all but one benchmark. The XFX GeForce EGUUGT is definitely the best GPU for the mainstream markets.

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H o wto c r e a t e a stunning multimedia slideshow Digital photography is a wonderful thing. Snap the picture, see it immediately, then copy it over to your PCfor some editing, printing or emailing. But one of the most overlooked yet most touching ways of sharing your precious memories with friends and family is creating aslideshow. complete with fancy transition sequences, a fitting piece of music and audio narration.

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What the NVAODOD d o » well The NV-dDDDD's pen-controlled touchscreen boasts a colour graphic interface worthy of a gaming PC- “I don’t like sticks, so ljust touch it with my finger," says Trott. Using the touchscreen. a sewer can drill down through menus detailing all kinds of stitches. decorative patterns and embroidery patterns, including 134 Disney embroidery patterns pre‑ loaded into its memory. All you have to dois find the one you want and tap on it; the NV-4UDDD will do the rest. Well, almost. Since the NV-ADODD only handles one spool of thread at a time, the sewer has to change the thread every time the machine calls for another colour. Noproblem: The NV-AOODD will tell you which thread colours you need. Once you put in the first thread ‐ t h e NV-4DDDD will thread the needle for you with its little robotic arm ‐ the machine will start to embroider the selected pattern until the next colour is needed. The NV-4UDDD will then stop and ask for the second colour, and once it is threaded, the embroidering will continue until the third colour is needed, and so until the pattern is done. The NV-4UODD is also good at sewing decorative stitches. 'Just select the one you want and the dis‑ tance offabric you want sewn, line up the fabric, and away it goes,’ says Trott. "When the stitch is done, the NV-4ODOD will even trim off the excess thread for you." Where the NV-4DDDD really excels is at sewing but‑ ton holes. Normally anightmare for manual sewers, button holes are a cinch with the computerized NV‑ 40000. 'You select the pattern you want, and the NV~40000 will sew the button hole automatiwlly,‘ she says. “You can even walk away and come back when it’s done."

needle manually is extremely difficult. This is because the NV-4DOOD isn’t designed for manual threading, which means there isn't much room for human-sized fingers, "The NV-4UOUD also has a function that mimics the edging and cutting offered by four-thread serging machines, but it really doesn't do it well,” says Trott. "One reason is because it is only using one thread. The other is that the NV~40000's cutting foot some times doesn't cut the fabric cleanly.“ As for embroidery? While any pie-loaded patterns will re-size without problems, custom images often have trouble. If the pattern is too small, the machine can ended up bunching up the stitches, tearing the fabric, or even getting the fabric stuck in the machine's ”feed dogs" [the parts that automatically advance the fabric past the needle]. Meanwhile, the process of scanning an image and creating an embroidery pattern “is not intuitive,‘ Trott observes. “In fact, it is a four step process that requires two pieces of software to get from scanned picture to embroidered image.”

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When you hearthe word "wireless“ on its own, it's is probably being used to refer to cellular phone technology ‐especially the ability of these new devices to send and receive data [email, text messages, and even Web surfing] in addition to making voice calls. It doesn‘t matter whether you're using an actual cell phone or a cellular modem. because both can send and receive data. Trying to view data [Web pages or longer email messages] can be less than ideal onatiny telephone screen, though. Most Canadian cellular networks have been upgraded recently to “high speed," which means they on move more data faster. But high-speed. in this case, realistically means about 55 kilobits per second, roughly the same speed as the fastest dial-up connections usinga telephone. There's talk of broadband connections over cellular, but it’s not here quite yet. There are two major types of high-speed cellularwireless in North

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WiFi networkingis startingto appear as standard gear in many new notebooks [especially those using intel's new Centrino technology] and handhelds. But even if it's not built in, adding WIFI to an computer is as easy asinstallinga USB, PCCard, or internal WiFi adapter. Handhelds can add win using CompactFlash or SecureDigitaI adapters. The catch: to use WiFt, you will need a base station hooked into your office or home network, or you'll have to find a'hotspot' that is apublic space with a VifiFi base station. J u ' t e E D D E - H U E : D i g ' t : a l L i v i n g - To n o r m o S e c d o n

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crush underneath him and telephone poles give way. Scaling buildings is as simple as running up them, and the Hulk can jump whole city blocks. The game uses the studio's own specially-developed physics engine, which features a number of cool tricks including what the team refers to as “weaponization” ‐ the turning of any part of the environ‑ ment into a weapon, including vehicles. The Hulk can punch up a bus. then pick up and run with the crumpled shell. 0r, turn it into askateboard. Also in the demo, the Hulktore a police car in half and used the halves as steel boxing gloves on either hand. Where the movie was serious. explained Geisler, the game (which has no ties to the movie whatsoever] was an attempt to bring back some of the campy humour ofthe comic books. Published by e r n d i Universal, expect the game in Summer 2005 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.

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elements reminiscent of Splinter Cell, which opens up a host of “Iquick kill" possibilities a la Sam Fisher, such as throatAcutting from behind or choking an enemy while hanging upside down from a ladder. Players control the Prince as well as a strange alter-ego knOWn as the “Dark Prince", a dangerous byproduct created by the Prince's constant dabbling in the Sands of Time. Prince of Persia is scheduled for a Winter 2005 release on Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube and PC. By Erin Bell

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Leading upto this year's E3, there was some ill conceived speculation that Nintendo might bow out of the console manufacturing race. Not likely, as Nintendo President Satoru Iwata proved on the stage of Nintendo's pre-E3 press conference. While Microsoft had some playable behind closed doors Xbox 360 games and both Sony and Microsoft had some varyingly impressive in game and pre-rendered next-gen footage, Nintendo satisfied itself to explain the core concepts behind its next console, designed under the name Revolution. Nintendo has always done things a little differently from the rest oftlie game console industry at large. While Microsoft and Sony each attempt to create the next hardware revolution with their consoles and to vary‑ ing degrees, the next major networked home entertainment appliance. Nintendo is planning a Revolution of its own. Its next console isn't going to be about tech specs, hardcore gaming subsets or online muscle flex, accordingto Nintendo of Canada market‑ ing manager David Le. "What we try to do is bring games to the market. We're all about chang‑ ing experiences and how they play games versus trying to bring them to market for any other reason," says Le. The Revolution will be capable of delivering games from Nintendo sys‑ tems past [from the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System to the N84] online and will be backwards compatible with GameCube discs. Also, in keeping with a growing wireless controller trend that Nintendo arguably perfected with the WaveBird, Revolution controllers will indeed bewireless. While in the current generation, Nintendo has been hesitant to dive into online, Revolution‘s strategy is based in part on the "Nintendo WiFi Connection." Where in the current generation, a hardcore subset of gamers [10 per cent of Microsoft's current 20 million install base. for example] play online, Nintendo envisions an online experience that will bring more.

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"It's about bringing people together to play games by removing a lot of barriers in terms of cost and, as Reggie (Fils-Aime, Nintendo ofAmerica‘s executive vice president of sales and marketing] calls it, the Machismo attitude around online,” says Le. “If you remove these barriers in terms of cost and intimidation, our expectation is that it's not five or 10 per cent that are goingto be online with us, it's the vast majority of gamers." Nintendo‘s handheld gaming legacy is likewise a large part of its strat‑ egy as explained on the E3 show floor. The Nintendo USwith its in-built wireless internet capabilities will start to be put to use. Upto this point, it has only been used to connect gamers locally.

Game Boy Micro A shrunk down Game Boy Advance complete with customizable face plates and a smaller but much brighter screen was Nintendo’s hardware announcement for E3. While a little underwhelming in the greater scheme of this year's show, the Micro shrinks the popular handheld to truly pocket-sized proportions. No bigger than your standard cell phone handset, the Micro is aiming itself at a more image-conscious breed of garner. By Andrew Moore-Crispin The legend of l e l h : Twilight Princess The ilmnteenth instalment (Ii this by most accounts [this writers myllideril excellent lranchise onngs us a slightly darker tale and a more m’tflll‘fl linl. Director Eiii Aoiitlma points out that the game isn‘t dark for

siiy but. instantly addirtwe Nintendons dome WI“ he mmlllfl l” N W ” American shores sometime this year darkness sate, hlit rather to create it more engaging and Visceral expe‑ Players select and r a i s e a puppy, teaching it tricks rewarding and play V'li‘l‘f‘P inr flliillfll'f'v i n g With it. givmg VOICE commands and petting it UGIHC) the stylus and the Not everyone approved of the cartoonish graphics in The Legend oi DS‘ lower toucli-senSitive screen Zelda The Wind Waker and while this newest game was built on the “Bark Mode,“ a Wireless local connection mode, allows your Nintendoq same Wind Waker game engine, said engine has gone through i o n u to alert you when another is in the area Then. the two Nintendogs ran rnemhle tweaks and improvements. Mr. Aonuma says play together and gamers can trade supplies and toys and, potentially for more information lrom Nintendo's limited access Developer make a real-world connection With other players Showcase event held the day before the show. check the Total Gamer

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Microsoft pulled off something of a coup in this generation of videogames from what was regarded by some as aquestionable busi‑ ness decision to enter the home console gaming market to the biggest day in entertainment history: the second instalment of Microsoft Game Studios' Halo franchise pulled in US$125 million in its first 24 hours at retail, topping all other games and movies in the process. The Home and Entertainment division of the Microsoft mega corpora‑ tion that encompasses Xbox has yet to become consistently profitable, however. Robbie Bach, chief Xbox officer [CXO?] and senior vice presi~ dent. home and entertainment division says the company has announced it will beprofitable come end of its fiscal year in June 2007. This generation [which is already being referred to as "last generation” by some Xbox reps offthe show floor] gained market share in homes by coming to market with the most powerful hardware. "It was smart but unbelievably expensive." says Bach. Videogame consoles are generally sold as loss~leaders with the money made in software and licensing fees. Xbox had little new to report of its Xbox 380 at its pre-E3 press confer‑ ence with a few details leaked before a press embargo was lifted and many more officially announced in a vapid MTV special.

Bach talked of plans to build the videogame industry to one billion con‑ sumers in the next generation in an inter‑ view away from the din of the E3 show floor. Heexplained that one billion gamers is about half the current assumed num‑ ber (assuming 2.5 people per game con‑ sole] and is an industry-wide figure as opposed to an Xbox 360 specific goal. “l'll smile and say ‘we just want our fair share,” Bach said. When asked for clarifi‑ cation of what exactly a fair share might be, hecontinued "whatever it takes to beat Sony." This translates to the mid to high 405 in per cent terms, discounting hand‑ held gamers and assuming current trends continue. J Allard, corporate vice president and chief XNA [the Xbox development plat‑ form] architect spoke of plans for an online commerce model where those not generally considered a part of the core gaming demographic of 18 - 34 year-old males can participate in an online game experience by selling, for example, inde‑ pendently designed character t-shirts or skate parks for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater titles.

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In an interview off the show floor, Allard also raised the possibility of Xbox Live online competitions sponsored by outside companies where spectators watch the best players compete for prizes. Features like online music downloads, integration with Windows com. puters and interface with portable audio players, digital cameras and presumably other USB devices sweeten the deal for non-traditional

gamers. Showing off Gears of War, a gorgeous horror shooter, EA's Need for Speed Most Wanted, Ubisoft's Ghost Recon 3 among others and with 25 - 30 titles in development for the console's "launch window" [presum‑ ably, the few months following the expected November release], Peter Moore. corporate vice president, worldwide marketing and publishing assures us that the Xbox 360 is still all about the games. At the pre-E3 press conference, Bach announced that the Xbox 360 will becompatible with "the most popular Xbox games." Asit turns out, play‑ ing Xbox games on the 360 will be software based, presumably with some sort of emulationr What constitutes the "most popular" games, when they'll be playable and ifthere will bea cost associated has yet to be revealed. By Andrew Moore-CriSpin For the fact sheet and detailed system Specs, check o u t

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though the PlayStation 3 was not playable at the Electronic soles, where agraphical decal is rendered onto a30 object. Entertainment Expo like Microsoft's Xbox 360 was, its presence still "We want to articulate the different between gold paint and gold," said loomed large. In a press conference the day before the show, Sony Huang. Using the new technology, he predicted, games could show sub‑ announced aSpring 2005 release date, rattled off animpressive list of tle textures like brushed aluminum, silk and felt in minute detail. tech specs and features, and showed off some demos that gave a taste The power of the GPU was demonstrated by several tech demos, includ‑ ofthe power of its next-generation console. ing one based onElectronic Arts' boxingtitle Fight Night Round 3,which Whereas Microsoft's Xbox had been the dominant console in terms of showed sweat dripping down the back of the boxer's neck, the pores and technical prowess in this generation, the next generation is gearing up stubble on his cheeks, and fluid facial expressions from intense anger tobea battle between two super computers. when about to deliver a punch, to shocked hurt after being clocked. ”the PlayStation 3 will use a 128-bit graphics processor developed in a Equally significant is the PlayStation 3's 3.ZGH1"Cell" CPU, whose con‑ partnership with graphics card powerhouse NVIDIAJhe result, according siderable computational power is capable of rendering hundreds of thou‑ to NVIDlA’s president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. who spoke at Sony‘s sands of objects in real-time. This was demonstrated in one demo as press conference, will bea GPU that combines the high-quality graphics swirling leaves, each individual Icafrustling independently in digital sur‑ of movies with the quick frame rates of videogames. It will use the cine‑ round sound, and in another asa virtual rendering of the city of London matic technique of "shading" using advanced light and shadow effects with bustling pedestrians [each with unique facial features ‐ no as opposed to the texture mapping used by current~generation con‑ cloning], traffic, and dynamic lighting and shading effects. Other announced features include a detachable 2.5 H00 slot for stor‑ age, six USB 2.0 ports, memory stick, SDcard and compact flash slots, Bluetooth for up to seven wireless controllers simultaneously, built-in 802.11 b/g WiFi and Gigabit Ethernet. The PS3 will support blue-ray disc technology, which has 5468 of dual layer storage (six times the capacity of current dual layer DVDs], and will With the launch til the. PlavSLatmn 3 rat-ll roughly ti year M a y , the also be able to play DVDs and C05. It will also be backwards compatible PlayStation 2 still has ti lot of life left in :t uzr was demonstrated by with both original PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games, giving it a ready‑ the number ol P82 titles on the show from made library of more than 13,000 titles. . By Erin Bell Sly lie-poi- 3: Honor Ana. This-u For the fact sheet and detailed system specs, check out Publish-r. IBM I n f - p f . l a i r Ouch m m . www.us.playstationcom/Pressrelcases.aspx?id=2?9 E x p - h i lunch I a n : Fall zoos

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Continumg the c o m i c book style graphic; and solid platform game,‑ play til the first two titles, 54 3 continues the adventures of Sly Cooper and his partners in crime. Bentley and Murray in a story that‑ continues from where the second one left an The. new game features additional playable characters including Inspector Carmelita Fox and Lounge Lizard Dimitri. and cooperative lelSSlOflS in u split-screen multiplayer mode. In the coolest gimmick of all. players Wil be able to replay sections of the game in 30 USan an included p a i r of 3D glasses to experience the same levels in from a unique perspective of added depth perceotton

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Oblivion demonstrates next generation technology With the launch of any new console comes the list of hardware specs meant to show offthe processing power and graphical prowess ofthis latest jump in technology. Terms like teraFLOPS, GHz, DRAM and gigasamples are being tossed around liberally, generally the higher the number preceding them the better. HUB was privy to a behind the scenes E3 sneak peak ofthe next-gener‑ ation role-playing game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion from Bethesda Softworks [announced as a launch title for Xbox 360], which demon~ strated more dramatically than any tech spec sheet just exactly how next generation consoles could impact the gameplay experience. One of the ways is forests. “We've always wanted to have big, lush forests in the game, but it's something we just couldn‘t do in the previous generation," explained Oblivion's Executive Producer Todd Howard. “Forests are part of so many great fantasy settings that you think about, read about, see in movies, and it’s also one ofthe most difficult things you could doin a game. But we like trying the crazy stuff." In development since 2002, Oblivion continues the Elder Scrolls tradi~ tion of having a vast, open-ended world full of side~quests and secrets that the player can discover at his or her own pace. The game takes place in Cyradil, capital province of the land of Tamriel, which, for the first time, is almost half covered in forests ‐ forests with deer to be hunted, mushrooms to be picked, and whose foliage animates in real

L time based on weather. Ublivion’s programmers spent some time in the University of Maryland's geology lab studying how soil erodes, rocks form and trees grow, allowing them to grow the forests in-game.

In addition, there are nine major cities and many smaller settlements, The game contains more than 9,000 oblads to p l e up and play with, and more than 200 dungeons all crafted by hand [as opposed to ran‑

domly generated.) Another benefit of next-generation technology is in the increased sophistication and believability of NPCs. Character models and dialogue trees in previous Elder Scrolls games were limited, so that in the course ofwalking from one end oftown to the other you'd meet the “same" peo‑ ple over and over again. Not so with The Elder Scrolls Ill. Oblivion boasts more than 1,000 unique NPCs and more than 50 hours of recorded dialogue, all lip synched. [In fact, voice data alone takes up halfthc space on the DVD.) Furthermore, the NPCs have what Howard refers to as "radiant Al,“ meaning they have each been programmed with certain behavioral patterns, goals,jobs and stats, and then left to inter‑ act with each other according to how the AI dictates, as opposed to fol‑ lowing scripted paths. All of these NPCs follow daily routines on a continuous 24-hour clock. For example, a merchant will get up in the morning, go to work, perhaps spend a few hours at the tavern after closing time. go home, eat dinner and go to sleep then wake up the next day and do it all over again. Multiply this by every NPC in the game, and you start to get an inkling of how rich the world hopes to be. In the demo, we watched as a woman invited us into her room and began to practice her archery ‐ rather dismally. Getting frustrated, she quaffed a potion to improve her archery stat, then decided to feed her dog a piece ofmeat, at which point the dog's Al kicked in and caused the dog to sense the presence ofthe meat and eat it. The NPCs will also have conversations with each other, and listening to these conversations open up new topics to talk about and are a good way to get quests. You can persuade NPCs during conversation by using several techniques including bullying and joking, and can tell by the NPC’s facial expression which approach is most likely to work. The increased depth and attention to detail is also evident in combat, which is a much more kinetic experience than in past games. Now, instead of randomly jabbing and hoping for the correct set of numerical conditions to be met to score a hit, you m u s t now physically connect with yourtarget, who can in turn block and duck. When a bow is equipped, a quiver ofarrows appears on the character's back. When an arrow is used, it disappears from the quiver and actual~ ly lodges into the target object [which can beanything from a bucket to flesh], and can be manually retrieved and put back into the quiver. It’s adeveloper’s dream come true to be able to fully realize a creative vision without having to conform to the technical limitations of a par‑ ticular console. lf Oblivion is any indication, the Xbox 380 and PlayStation 3 [both ofwhich have been described as having near “super computer" levels of power] have the potential to realize any idea a developer has, even ifthat idea is something asoutlandish asa forest.

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