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Unreal II.
We visited Legend Entertainment in Washington and took a look at the game on-site.
Mike Verdu's answer on the question what their goal would be with the game:
"We want to deliver a good game. We want players to says "Unreal II is the coolest game I have ever played. We are also trying to tell a fascinating story within an action game. We want to develop a multiplayer mode that is completely new and hasn't been done before. We want to make the whole first person genre more ambitious regarding game design and technology."

This lady's name is "Aida" and she is doing the briefings within the game. This demonstrates that her torso can be moved indepentendly from her lower body.
Since Unreal II will be focused a lot on dialogue the developers care a lot about little things like moving eyes and synchronous lip movements of the characters.

M. Verdu: "All adventure elements within the game are optional. The player decides whether he wants to experience them or not. If you decide to talk to all of the characters it is certainly possible. Even so much that the adventure part of the game makes up to 40% of it while the rest consists of the general action oriented gameplay. If you don't care for that much story time you can reduce it to 10% of actually mandatory dialogue."

What you see here is one of the effects that appear within Unreal II. Dynamic smoke. Depending on the colors of the lights it shimmers in different colors.
The real impressive aspect of this is how dynamic it is. If you shoot at it with your rocket launcher you can see how the vapor changes its direction accordingly. This effect will also appear in the game while shooting through snowflakes.
Multiplayer mode will also provide bots. This video shows two bots who are fighting in an arena and pick up health packs. We are not allowed to show actual scenes from the game.

M. Verdu: "Unreal II will contain a multiplayer mode that you haven't seen in other games. The fights will require a lot of strategy because players have to choose from different classes and work as a team."

Matthias Borch comes from Germany and is the leading level designer of the Unreal II team and talks about inspiration and pressure to succeed: "It's not like we had a higher pressure to succeed than other people in our industry but it certainly is high since a lot of people are expecting so much from us after playing Unreal I. We think that we can come through because we are also evaluating our competition, looking at what they did good or what we could do better. But we are also very motivated by these other games. For example we just played Halo. The whole company did nothing but play Halo and then we say: 'Hey look at this we can use this like that and integrate that like this...'"

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