It has the Trespasser post-mortem in it and many others – taken from the regular post-mortem articles from the Game Developer website. Its likely that if you read the Trespasser post-mortem on the site, the book’s rendition will be identical.

Makes the perfect Xmas gift!

I read one on Gamsutra, but you got a print copy or something?

You bastard!!!! MIEN!

I fancy playing it now actually. Wish they made an HD version that was free roaming.

Yes, you should prefer to have never existed than Tresspasser not existing.

I just wish they had a decent plebs section or something.

“Even Call of Duty 4 is just Counter-Strike on the PC from 2001.”

I totally agree .

Sorry, couldn’t resist…

Don’t mess. Got it? Good.

For example, if you said to him:

‘Don’t be such an idiot. You’re just trying to hype your stupid game that nobody cares about and raise your non-existant profile at the same time. COD4 is nothing like CS. Where is the Free For All mode in CS? Where is the ranking system? the prestige levels? The campaign? The air strikes? The choppers? The Cage matches? The Hardcore modes? etc, etc, etc, etc, etc…?’

He’d just come out with some dribble like: ‘No, I wasn’t being specific! All of those things are just minor tweaks! They are insignificant bells and whistles, but the core gameplay remains the same! It’s still just a bunch of people online, playing round after round, shooting each other with weapons that they unlocked from the revious round. The core gameplay hasn’t changed!!’

It’s what he means when he uses the word “just” that is ambiguous.

Sure, COD4 is an FPS and CS is an FPS, so to a casual gamer, and to him too obviously, they are “just” the same game when it comes to the core mechanic.

But if you challenged him on this I think he’d squirm around what he meant by the word “just”.

Just that what he’s said is so ambiguous that there is an obvious degree of truth in it.

A teeny tiny miniscule amount of truth, but not enough for there to be any point in him saying it.

From one angle, you can’t argue with him, but his point is worthless.

Woweee.

And now he’s on the Creative Art Agency representing games…

That man… He’s good. Real good.

Man I would love a next gen tresspasser sequel.

I went into an abandoned house, hopped across a gap on the second floor where the ceiling had collapsed, to find a huge shotgun, and thought to myself, wouldn’t it be awesome if it had destructible environments or next gen parallaxed bullet holes.

I raised up the shotgun and shot the damn wall down.

And this was released in 1998… Can you believe that!? The dinosaurs in that game, had technology similar to Euphoria controlling them, instead of animations.

And it’s taken THIS damn long to even slightl implement these concepts, with Red Faction: Guerilla comign and Euphoria in 2 games.

He is right…

Virtua Tennis is just Pong from 1972

Tekken 6 is just International Karate from 1986

Gears of War 2 is just Turrican from 1990

Etc, etc etc…

Funny that he says “deep first-person shooters have never been on the consoles”, you would think that a guy from Bethesda might keep that to himself so close after the release of Fallout 3.

Or decent vehicles.