Ondanks de aankondiging van Operation Flashpoint 2 net voor de E3, was er op 's werelds grootste game-expo nog niets te bekijken van deze langverwachte all-round militaire simulatie. Tijd dus voor PlanetRainbowSix (..de logica ontging me ook wat ) om Marek Spanel aan de tand te voelen over deze nieuwe creatie.

In de uitgebreide Q&A wordt er meer verteld over de nieuwe physics-engine, enkele veranderingen t.o.v. de eerste Flashpoint (waaronder de nieuwe scenario's) en de huidige status van het project.@WAR: When was the OFP2 project conceived? What were the main objectives that you wanted to achieve with OFP2?

Marek: Originally, we didn't want to work on a sequel at all as we had quite different goals in game development for the long term than military games. However, research and development of new technologies took much more time than we expected. As our ambitions are quite big we realized sometime in the fall of 2002 that it was simply not po ible to work 5 years on the development of all the technologies without seeing any real game where it is used.

We would like to deliver all the scope, realism and level of immersion as in the original game and in addition, we want to deliver a more polished engine using the latest technologies available. We also would like to deliver a matured and tuned game architecture, including the multiplayer, that will go beyond pure gaming with an open ended design suitable for any type of real time visual simulations.Voor het volledige artikel surf je naar PlanetRainbowSix.