The Big Games:
Soldier of Fortune Platinum (29th), Totally Unreal (30th), and Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (30th)
Two repackaged games made a showing in August. Soldier of Fortune Platinum Edition appended the original game with new multiplayer levels, GameSpy server browser support, and a preview of the recently announced Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix. And from Infogrames, Totally Unreal offered a compilation of the original Unreal, the expansion pack Return to NaPali, Unreal Tournament, and exclusive footage from Unreal II and Unreal Championship for Xbox. Additionally, the much-acclaimed Operation Flashpoint hit stores on August 30th, bringing gamers realistic team-based tactical warfare from the Cold War era. The game recently picked up GameSpy.com's award for Action Game of the Year.
The Big Stories:
August's QuakeCon 2001 activities were the highlight of the month for action gamers, as the future game unveilings from id Software finally surfaced after their much-anticipated announcements a month earlier. Raven Software has been given the developing duties on Quake IV, which will make use of the new DOOM engine and return players to the single-player campaigns and Strogg universe of Quake II. Nerve Software (which developed the multiplayer component of Return to Castle Wolfenstein) is at work a yet-unnamed new game franchise only described as "a multiplayer co-op title using id technology." Nothing further was revealed about the new DOOM game other than its existence.
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