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As legendary developer id Software extols the virtues of its upcoming shooter RAGE and the fifth generation of its lauded id Tech game engine, developer Splash Damage has revealed the true extent of the modifications it’s made to id Tech 4, which the London studio is using to build multiplayer focused shooter Brink.
Speaking at publisher Bethesda’s Gamers Day event in France, Splash Damage CEO and game director Paul Wedgewood said that the modifications have been so great that Brink is only “about a third id Tech 4”.
“We started out when we finished with Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for the PC. We didn’t do the console versions of that game. We were the lead developer on the PC version. When we finished that, that was essentially id Tech 4. id, of course, were working on RAGE and they were using id Tech 5.
“But we had some specific requirements for this game, a lot to do with the networking model which has to work irrespective of the way you play. In essence it has to be fast enough that I’m permanently hosting a server just in case I want a friend to join me at any given time.”
Brink is a team-based multiplayer shooter that works similarly when played offline as it does online. Two teams of eight face off in various stages set within the Ark, a near-future utopian city wracked by a conflict between two factions, the Security and the Resistance. Seamless drop-in/out play allows real world players to replace AI-controlled players mid-match.
“We started from the ground up with id Tech 4 again,” Wedgewood said, “rewriting the renderer, rewriting the network model and all the other bits and pieces.
“It’s still probably about a third id Tech 4, and then a whole bunch of rewritten stuff and then some additional code id Software have shared with us. But it’s absolutely based on that id Software platform, which is why it feels so solid when you land and when you hit stuff and all that kind of thing.”
Never heard of Brink and want to know what it’s all about? Check out our preview of the game from Bethesda’s Gamers Day event in France right here.
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Rage
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, First Person, Shooter
