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[Scorpion]

Тема для переводов, здесь можно кидать любые материалы и новости.

Кто берет что-то переводить, говорите сразу, чтобы не дублировать. Если это новости, то перевести конечно чем раньше, тем лучше.

[Scorpion]

Стало известно, что в комплект с PS2 и Xbox версиями игры «Total Overdose», издаваемой компанией Eidos, будет входить бонусный DVD с эксклюзивными материалами о Tomb Raider: Legend.

По словам официальных источников, на DVD мы сможем найти:

1. Интервью с командой разработчиков, а именно с:
Тоби Гардом – создателем Лары Крофт
Райли Купером – ведущим дизайнером
Эриком Линдстромом – главным дизайнером
Троэлсом Фольманом – композитором

2. Новый концепт-арт, геймплей, ролики, анимация.
А также эволюцию серии и съемки о Tomb Raider: Legend в разработке.

З.Ы. По не проверенным пока данным, в комплект DVD войдет демо-версия первого уровня TRL, которая была показана на выставке E3 в мае этого года.

Игра «Total Overdose» появится в продаже 27 сентября на территории США, и цена ее будет составлять $29.99.

[Fatal error]

Т.к. уже прошел месяц с выхода этой статьи, думаю администрация имеет полное право разместить её на сайте, воть

Сообщение изменено: Fatal error (07 September 2005 - 16:55)

[ashka_alias]

вот появился диск... перевод думаю не нужен:
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Сообщение изменено: ashka_alias (09 September 2005 - 23:05)

[Fatal error]

http://www.tombraide...7/synopsis.html
Вроде, этого текста еще нет на ТР.ру, если нет, то я "забиваю" его себе. Перевод будет в 2-х итнопритациях, для этого сайта и для сайта моей знакомой.

[Fatal error]

стерто по просьбе автора.

Сообщение изменено: rhyn (25 September 2005 - 19:29)

[Scorpion]

Народ, кто собирался переводить, нужно перевести на англ. две последние новости на сайте и небольшую статью
http://tombraider.ru/lara_croft/album

[ashka_alias]

Я беру. Звините, два дня был дисканект

[ashka_alias]

я типа не понял,.. Уже перевели чтоль?

ashka_alias,
нет, надо с русского на английский.

Сообщение изменено: rhyn (23 September 2005 - 18:16)

[ashka_alias]

А, ну про Рону я возьму. А нащет остальных не знаю. Кстати, аудио (ну те что в раре) не качаюца ващще!

[Fatal error]

TOMB RAIDER LEGEND.
Резюме

Лара Крофт

Тобби Гард, создатель 1-ой эпопеи о Ларе и дизайнер Tomb Raider 7: Legend прокомментировал новую модель героини: “Это эволюция. Мы используем 10 000 полигонов, таким образом, мы можем сделать Лару более реалистичной. Она даже промокает, когда попадает в воду или пачкается, когда “катается" в пыли, грязи”.

Персонаж выглядит более реалистично, чем когда-либо! Теперь у него можно увидеть кости ключиц, сухожилия, мускулы, а также подвижные глаза.

Было подтверждено, что Анжелина Джоли не будет озвучивать Лару в ТРЛ. Официально была одобрена кандидатура Джонелл Элиот, именно она станет "голосом" главное героини.

Сюжет

Тоби Гард комментирует Tomb Raider 7 как: “Новый старт для Лары”. Лара Крофт будет искать ценную английскую реликвию, преследуемая существом из прошлого, считающимся давно умершим и похороненным. В отличие от историй TR 1-6, TR 7 будет основана на реальном артефакте.

Множество аспектов обращены к её прошлому в “Легенде”, включая инцидент в Гималаях, который сделал из Крофт Расхитительницу Гробниц.

Морган Грей из Crystal Dynamics намекнул, что для лучшего понимания сюжета игры мы увидим молодую Лару и познакомимся с семейством Крофт.

Движения

Лара более подвижна, чем когда-либо! Раскачивание на канатах, лазанье, ползанье, стрельба, совмещенная с акробатикой, ныряние ласточкой в воду, плавание. Это лишь крошечная часть, от всех движений. Crystal Dynamics намекнули, что акробатика будет напоминать Принца Персии.

Более динамичные и жестокие бои с нанесением увечий. Этого не было в прошлых играх. Стрельбы останется автоматической, но в тоже время будет иметь интеллектуальный характер.

Некоторые скриншоты указывают на то, что мы сможем избегать вражеских атак, прячась за предметами, делая подкаты, кульбиты и просто двигаясь по поверхности. Из имеющихся сообщений можно сделать вывод, что хитрость будет играть не последнею роль в новом Tomb Raider. Лара замечена, исполняющей стиль “змеи”. Это значит, что вы сможете устранить противника, застав его врасплох.

Враги Лары будут наделены искусственным интеллектом. И на любую атаку они будут отвечать интеллектуальными способами, т.е. окружение Расхитительницы в кольцо, передвижение в пространстве, для уклонения от пуль, отскакивание от гранат, вызов подкрепления. Подтверждение этому было в статье журнала XBox.

Оружие и оборудование

Лара имеет в своем постоянном арсенале пару кольтов. В качестве бонуса, гранаты, автоматные башенки, дробовик, револьвер, РПГ и еще много другого оружия будет возращено в игру. Пусковые установки и снайперское оружие, возможно, тоже, будет присутствовать.

Героиня носит все снаряжение на теле, больше нет бездонного рюкзака. Значит, ушел нудный экран инвентаря – вы точно знаете, что несет с собой персонаж. Когда вы используете гранату, то предмет исчезает с пояса и Крофт берет его в руки, а потом использует. Помимо пистолетов и гранат, Лара может взять еще одно оружие, отобранное у врага.

Магнитный крюк, взаимодействующий только с металлическими, поверхностями предназначен для преодоления препятствий, и разгадывания загадок.

У неё богатое снаряжение. Красные сигнальные ракеты, чтобы осветить темные проходы. Бинокль, чтобы разведать обстановку на расстоянии (как обещают, этот предмет будет иметь много функций). Фонарик, который закреплен на плече и включается в темных местах, независимо от игрока. Гарнитура, которая передает видео ряд и звук в поместье Крофт двум командам помощников, выдающих полезные советы.

Локации

Оглашено 8 локаций игры. Гана, Перу, Малайзия, Гималаи, Токио. Недавний ролик с немецкой игровой конференции в Лейпциге показал зрителям боливийские трущобы и русскую фабрику. Таким образом, добавляем к нашему списку Боливию и Россию.

Не трудно догадаться, что мы окажемся и в Англии для обучения в поместье Крофт. Другие, известные по слухам, места: Куала-Лумпур, Месопотамия и Центральная Америка. О подводном уровне сообщил официальный журнал XBox, но пока неизвестно какой локации принадлежит этот уровень.

Транспорт

Пока известно единственное транспортное средство – мотоцикл. Он будет, скорее всего, основным средством передвижения. Также, может, будет и джип.

Механика: Квесты в игре

В квестах будут широко применяться физическая основа, например, вес нашей героини. Будет иметься возможность решения квестов несколькими способами.

Механика: Движок игры

Игра основана на модифицированном движке Project: Snowblind. Белл, ведущий программист Crystal Dynamics, считает технологию, используемую в Легенде наиболее удачной. Благодаря ей мы сможем создать наиболее детализированный мир. Белл говорит: “С помощью новых технологий, мы уходим от времен перегруженности памяти, что позволяет нам передавать необходимые данные внутри компьютерной системы, не перегружая её”.

TRL использует модернизированные текстуры, анимацию. Создатели добавили в движок физическую основу, теперь каждый предмет имеет свой вес, упругость и т.д., что позволяет реалистично манипулировать объектами.

Текущие технологии, применяемые в новом Tomb Raider, помогли закрыть пробел между новым TR и его прошлыми частями. Что позволило создать более развернутый мир игры.



Механика: Графика

Игра имеет "фильтр сглаживания", который обрабатывает картинку, перед выводом её на экран, сглаживая углы и, тем самым устраняет проблему острых краёв. Декорационные элементы, такие как динамическое освещение, вода и пламя, полет птиц, радуга, водопады, грязь, глыбы и плющ, все очень реалистично.

Механика: Система управления

Обновляемая система управления обеспечивает интуитивное и хорошо скоординированное передвижение персонажа. Динамическая система мультипликации помогает сосредоточиться на непрерывном передвижении. Это обеспечивает Ларе возможность легко преодолевать любые препятствия и взаимодействовать с любыми предметами…
Вдохновил Crystal Dynamics на изменение в управлении известная игра “Принц Персии”. В отличие от прошлых игр Легенда не базируется на привязанности персонажа к поверхности, что дает нам намного большую свободу действий.
Систему обзора существенно изменили, теперь точка обзора будет постоянно перемещаться, показывая нам лучший ракурс, однако и сам игрок сможет управлять камерой по желанию. Было подтверждено, что нововведения из Ангела Тьмы, такие как апгрейд силы или второстепенный играбельный персонаж в 7-ю игру не перекочуют.

Слухи

Чекпоинты и секретные места.

Релиз

II квартал (апрель - июнь) 2006.

Платформы.

Платформы PS2, PC и XBox уже подтверждены. Также, по слухам игра находится в разработки под консоли PSP и XBox 360, хотя в Eidos это не комментируют.

Как сказал Тоби, версии для PC и XBox будут иметь более детализированные текстуры и ускоренную загрузку. Разрабатывается широкоэкранная версия для XBox.

Дизайнер также подтвердил, что версия XBox "поддержит функцию музыкального автомата, которая будет развлечением в тренировочном уровне”.

[ashka_alias]

Scorpion:
Рону то я отправил. А какие последние две новости надо на англ перевести?

[Norder]

Вот на английском, не знаю, нужно или нет:
This is a recent interview from Edge magazine UK.

Whatever Happened to the Lara Lads?

The Angel Of Darkness seemed like the angel of death for the studio which created Lara Croft. Now, Core breaks its silence and speaks out.

If a diplomat is someone who thinks twice before saying nothing, then Core’s studio manager Gavin Rummery is well prepared for a career with the Foreign Office. Ask him what life has been like for Core over the last three years - three years that saw Tomb Raider : The Angel Of Darkness savaged by the press, the franchise shipped out to Crystal Dynamics, its old owners Eidos up for sale, its new owners SCi’s decide to put Core up on the market and its recent purchase by what is now the UK’s biggest independent developer, Rebellion - and he says: “It’s been a little bit…interesting”.

But from the outside, ‘interesting’ isn’t the word that springs to mind. From the outside, Core looked butchered and abandoned. It took two weeks after The Angel Of Darkness’s 2003 release for it to be announced that studio head Jeremy Heath-Smith had been asked to leave, and just one more for the team to be ripped from her roots and handed over to an American studio. By early 2004 Heath-Smith, along with his brother Adrian, had founded Circle studio, just down the road from Core’s office in Derby, and staffed it entirely with their ex-employees. Jeremy Heath-Smith was scathing in his description of what was left behind: “Core Design is now floundering around with a handful of people trying to get a project off the ground, and no real leadership,” he said in an interview in E134. And over the course of those years no word came out from Core to the contrary. Its PSP title Free Running was never released, and disappointing puzzle game Smartbomb seemed to confirm suspicions of a skeleton staff and limited remaining talent. But freed from the constraints of one acquisition process after another, it turns out that Core - still going strong with 65 employees, half the original Tomb Raider team and 30 million sales to its name - has some record straightening to catch up on.

“It was mad. We had 40 people sitting here going: ‘That’s mad!’ ” recalls Rummery, of the Heath-Smiths’ suggestion that Core was dead in the water after Circle had been set up. “It was very difficult, very frustrating. Obviously Jeremy was free to go off and totally promote Circle, and meanwhile Eidos was saying: ’Right, we’ll hold off, we’ll do a Core relaunch a bit later, it’ll happ… oh, we’re up for sale.’ “ And it just stopped. And then Sci stepped in, and they didn’t want too many internal studios to run so they decided to look and see if they could sell us on - and in the middle of it our games were just getting chewed up in the mix of one sale after the next.” And all this while we were still labouring under the blame for TAOD’s failings. “Eidos needed a scapegoat and we were it. Rather than say: ‘Ah, well, we should have given it a bit more time’, they just pointed the finger and said: ‘They messed up.’ ”

That question of blame was one that lingered after the game’s release, however. Was it Eidos’ fault for rushing the game out unfinished? Or was it the fault of executive producers the Heath-Smiths for not managing the game-making process the better? Rummery’s take on his former bosses’ subsequent performances is customarily tactful: “Jeremy is and entrepreneur , and has done what he’s done is gone and made a successful company.” But while Circle studio may stil be a successful company, after the failure of Without Warning (E156, 3/10) it is no longer a videogame company, specialising instead in iDVD quiz games. Is there a sense of vindication? Matt Sansam, executive producer, can’t resist a chuckle. “My favourite review was; ‘Without Warning. Consider yourself warned.’ There was a lot of anticipation, definitely - a question of ‘can he prove himself?’ And he’s certainly proved something.” Indeed, Core is now seeing people returning from Circle, perhaps disillusioned with the direction the company has taken. “Since the split we’ve lost guys to Circle, one of whom was a web-developer, and we’ve had eight come back the other way, including some senior staff,” explains Sansam.

So where does Core lay the blame for what went wrong with TAOD? “Ok. Right,” begins Rummery, and an explanation that’s been dammed up for three years starts to tumble out. “Angel Of Darkness was a product of the old Core. Internally, we hadn’t changed much as a studio from the first Tomb Raider games. It was a small team, working in isolation- very small teams, actually, the original TR was six people. Even by TR5 it had only got up to the heady heights of 14, 15 people, so suddenly, for TAOD, it was a whole new process. Writing a new engine completely from scratch, even though we’d already developed PS2 engines within Core, because that was the way we worked. Thirty-five-odd people, the biggest team we’d ever had - tiny for a AAA PS2 game, but still the biggest team we’d ever worked with - and we had this deadline. It had to be out in a couple of years, and people just weren’t confident from the start that we could do it. But that was the way we were told it had to be and, you know, we’d managed to hit all the deadlines in the past, so we hoped we could do it. As it went on it started to become more apparent that it couldn’t be done, but Eidos were like - it’s got to be out , we haven’t had our big TR rush of cash, it’s got to be out, no ifs and buts. So it got past the Christmas slot, and it got closer and closer to their year -end, and they just said it has to come out, full stop. So at that point it was like a machete was taken to the game and the design, and it was hacked to pieces. The guys on the fan sites have dug around in the code and found all the content that was never wired up in the final game. It was just a shadow of the game it was supposed to be. Things like the character progression - the ‘I feel stronger’ when she pushes boxes - that was just the last stage of a much more complicated system which got cut out.”

Sansam also acknowledges ‘the kitchen sink problem’. “We were trying to do too much,” he admits. “ There was a muddying of the waters about who was pulling the direction of the game.” explains Rummery, “because it was a bigger team and it didn’t have a real central focus, someone who was saying do this, or don’t do that. We ended up with a bit of a factional thing, which meant that you had things like the Paris section which never really fitted. And that was part of the shame of the game for things like reviews, because that was the one bit of the game that people played, so a lot of the reviews were based on that. Of course, it got more into Tomb Raidery stuff later on, but I doubt many people got beyond those Paris streets where whole sections of gameplay had been utterly, utterly cut out. You had entire locations where you once had dialogue, and strange events where you could watch people doing a boxing match - you were actually supposed to learn your hand-to-hand combat moves there, bu t of course that never got done. That whole section was very non-Tomb Raider to me, but it was born out of us not being used to bigger teams.”

It was an ugly situation, and the mood within Core was initially bleak. “People weren’t proud of the games themselves,” recalls Rummery. “It looked really good, but the gameplay just wasn’t up to scratch. It needed another six months, but it went out as it was, and everyone was pretty miserable to see it get mauled. But, to be fair, it did go on to sell around two million units.” It wasn’t a mood that lasted, however. With the establishment of Circle it soon became clear that everyone’s jobs were safe, whether they stuck with Eidos or jumped ship - “the devil you know,” smiles Rummery, and it’s not clear if he means Heath-Smith, or Eidos or both.

More surprisingly, for the team, losing Tomb Raider felt as much like a reward as a punishment. Rummery, one of the team behind the original game, has a veteran’s perspective: “People sometimes forget that when you are an internal studio, you just have to do what you’re being asked to do. By the time we were doing the late PlayStation games the teams here saying: ‘Look, could we work on something else now, or do we have to do another one?’ It really started at the end of TR2. After the first game, when Toby decided to go because he was very ****ed off with the way Eidos had decided to market his game, the rest of us stayed on. A few more people joined to work on the next game, but at the end of that we were burnt out. And then Eidos said: ‘Right, time for number three!’ and it was like - oof - we don’t want to do a number three. We had already put all of our ideas into TR2. In the first game there were things we didn’t get around to putting in, but in the sequel we took it and made it a bit different, made it a bit more James Bondy. The two games complemented each other - we put in many new things, new moves, vehicle sections. I couldn’t really see, at that stage, where to go. And to be honest, where have the other games gone? Just more moves, more stuff, more vehicles. Nothing really has gone into the mix that wasn’t there in the first couple of games. So we all stopped working on it and moved onto other projects, trying to escape the franchise, but where we weren’t lucky is that it turns out you can’t do that successfully in a studio which is making the next game in a big series, because the other projects just won’t get the attention they need. So we learnt that to our cost, too.”

And, with TAOD, the situation had only intensified. “My God, it had been a painful process for the guys who’d worked on that game, “ recalls Rummery. “ They’d had a year of crunch, burnt out, very unhappy, and then had seen this miserable thing coming out at the end of it that they hardly wanted their name attached to it, so it wasn’t a very satisfying situation for them at all. So there was a sense of ‘well, at least we’ve got a fresh start - this could be cool.’ “ Freed from Lara’s legacy, a real sense of excitement took hold. “We were thinking: ‘Hey, we haven’t got TR hanging over us any more. Eidos said: ‘Right, come up with some ideas of what games you want to work on,’ and they were really surprised because they got 30 game concepts put forward in a fortnight. And they picked a couple to put into production and away we went. And, within Core, people realised we couldn’t continue working the way we had in the past - we had to get more organised, it couldn’t just be a case of a bunch of people sitting in a room saying: ‘OK, let’s make a game’. You can’t do that with a team of 30 people- it just doesn’t work. So we said right, we’ve got to grow up and act like a proper software company. And that’s been a massive shift. So we got a complete fresh start, which was a great opportunity.”

But soon after things got started again, they hit another brick wall. “It was all cool for about a year,” remembers Rummery, “but then Eidos really began to feel the pinch, because of course as a company they really depended on that regular Tomb Raider money, and as it became clear that Crystal weren’t going to get the game out anytime soon, they started to realise they needed to look for a buyer.” And so, with the two prototypes underway - Free Running and Smart bomb - and with work beginning on another major project (this is still unannounced, although widely rumoured to be a sequel to Shellshock: Vietnam), Core found itself in the middle of a recruitment freeze. And this time it’s Sansam’s turn to describe the that painful point as a moment when things became ‘interesting’ all over again. They’re frank about what it did to Smartbomb (“we got two bits right - we got the process right, and it was on time and on budget, but we didn’t get the quality we were after,” admits Rummery) but are more frustrated at the fate of Free Running. Completed in time for the PSP’s launch, it remains unreleased, although Core retains the rights and Rebellion will be seeking a new publisher for it. “It’s a good game,” asserts Rummery, while recognising that its first-generation looks may find it hardto compete with third-generation titles now ready for launch. “We learned a lot form it - a lot of very good techniques for moving a character around. In fact, we shared some of those ideas with Crystal, and they used them in Legend…” He shrugs, but it’s clear the new incarnation of Lara is a sore point. What’s it been like, watching another team develop what must feel like their baby?
“It’s been hard. What’s been hard is knowing we could have done it, and knowing we could have done a good job. It would have been very easy to make another game and fix the mistakes of TAOD, because it was not fundamentally broken, it just needed to be finished off, but that opportunity went away. So we just had to sit back and watch Crystal doing it. And the reality is obviously they have produced a good game. But the frustration for us is that they’ve been given all the time they needed and a phenomenal budget. It’s a budget bigger than the we received for the previous six games added together - twice that, in fact - and it’s really frustrating, because if we’d had that money…” Another shrug.

The acquisition by Rebellion, however, brings Core something much more valuable than money: freedom. “Core going back to its independent roots is quite exciting,” acknowledges Rummery. “We can talk about doing new IP, we can talk about taking those IP’s to more than one publisher. When you’re an internal studio - obviously it’s swings and roundabouts, because you get the payroll made every month - but you’re only pitching your game to one set of people, so if they don’t like it, it stops. Whereas now, we know that some of those concepts may not be a sort of archetypal Eidos game, but we can pitch it to different publishers.” And the Rebellion deal also brings access to its proprietary Asura engine, as well as savvy production approach which balances the risks of original IP with licensed games and work-for-hire projects. So where does Core see the future taking it? Rummery puts it plainly. “ People here have worked on the biggest franchise in the world. We’ve experienced being top of the charts, and we want to be there again.”

At the peak of Tomb Raider’s success, Core had nothing to prove and everything to lose. The last three years have turned that situation on its head - the Rebellion deal may have given the studio a clean slate, but it has a reputation to rebuild from scratch. What’s clear though, is that it wouldn’t want it any other way. The success of Tomb Raider had halted the studio’s evolution, insulating it from the rapid changes in game development as other companies switched to new technology, new management practices and new funding models. But the videogame business is ruthlessly Darwinian: if only the fittest studios survive, then those studios still standing must be finding ways to fit. And in that, at least from, Core is already an expert.

[Norder]

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DANIEL CRAIG TO RETURN AS JAMES BOND

Newly anointed Bond star Daniel Craig has committed to a second movie planned for May 2008, reports the BBC. Bond producer Barbara Broccoli praised the former Tomb Raider star for "portraying, with emotional complexity, a darker and edgier 007."

Craig will be inaugurated as James Bond in Casino Royale, scheduled for release by MGM in November 2006. The film portrays the very first outing of Agent 007 as he infiltrates a high stakes casino housing a banker that funds a who's who of terrorist organizations.

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