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The ng is not a pretty sight, that's for sure.

- Steve

Lovely - I knew he'd done some work on the Star Wars prequels, but I hadn't seen any other stuff.

Cheers

Steve

Well obviously the Death Belt was dispersed by shockwaves from the Apocalypse War, or Judgement Day er, or something.

Obviously.

- Steve

Troops is ace.

I think it would have been a nice touch if George Lucas approached the fan film makers to put some of these on the Star Wars DVDs and gave them a small cut of the profits.

It might happen (!)

- Steve

I wonder if it would be a worthwhile experiment having a few more, for want of a better word, 'mental' covers, like the ones from the early days.

Where's the airliners being attacked by the Capitol building in the Bermuda Triangle?

Or Skeletal Nazis attacking John Probe underwater?

Maybe it would be a bit too retro and pulp, but I'd rather have that than the 'meh' stock covers of people pointing guns at each other/the reader.

- Steve

Regarding the Time Lords I did read, probably on Popbitch, so probably bollocks that...

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Probably bollocks... but there you go.




- Steve

I've found the music pretty overwhelming on a decent surround setup as well as normal TV. I just think it's mixed up too high in general.

I enjoyed it more than the first half, but I think it was more to do with less of Trigger hamming it up.

Not sure about the cyberleader's cyber-armchair though. It reminded me of a metal Jim Royle...

"Mondas, my Arse!"

- Steve

I suppose there could always be a .1 case files that can slot in between the 2000AD case files, which covers Specials, Poster Progs, Annuals, Diceman, the Megazine.

OK, there's bound to be some crap in there, but you've also got all the colour McMahon and Ezquerra annual stories, the Higgins 'Last of the Bad Guys', and it would be a shame not to have those collected.

As for the Millar Dredds, I'd rather have it included, conveyor belts and all.

- Steve

Looks like they've been shopping again...

- Steve

Link: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=17507" target="_blank">http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=17507

BTW, Rogue Trooper got 7/10 in Edge, who are usually fairly harsh.

- Steve

The Next-Gen consoles certainly require a lot more effort in the creation of art.

The main reason for this is the creation of normal maps, which give the illusion of a more detailed model.

Basically the artist builds a high detail model, then extracts the information from that and uses it as a normal map on a lower detail model.

Since you're having to build a more detailed model, it takes longer than it would for a PS2 game, which means more money and probably outsourcing for some art.

- Steve

Yeah, he was good as the mouth of Sauron, it was pretty cool the way they scaled up his mouth slightly to make him more unnerving.

"Giant Squids"?

That's his mum you're talking about, Matey.

Arrr...

I don't necessarily agree that Death has to be any deeper than what he is, there's not much depth to classic movie monsters, like Alien, the Shark in Jaws, or the Thing, it's more the situation itself.

I think Mortis is a much scarier prospect, his whole touch of decay is a great signature for a character. I can imagine scenes where the environment is affected before he appears, metal rusting, plants wilting etc.

I think the motion of the Dark Judges is one of the trickiest aspects, I don't think they'd work as shambling zombies. I'd more imagined them as slightly jerky as if fighting rigor mortis. Maybe keeping still a lot of the time, but moving quickly when they needed to.

- Steve

OK, it's probably never going to happen, but what do people think about Death in a Dredd Movie?

Would he look ridiculous? would you change aspects of the uniform? How do you imagine he would move?

He doesn't really have any lips - which might make talking look a little weird, unless he only communicates through telepathy.

Personally, I think you would need to make him even more decayed (in the uniform anyway, so the visor would be rusted, almost corroded to the helmet)

- Steve