Games with AGEIA support - briefly
(hx) 02:29 PM CET - Mar,22 2006
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AGEIA
unveiled more info about their PhysX chip, including the games that will
support it. The company states that 60 developers and publishers and over 100
games will support AGEIA's PhysX card in 2006 and 2007. The first games that
will support the card will be Cryptic Studios' superhero MMORPG City of Villains
and the 2005 first person shooter Bet on Soldier.
For City of Villains, the folks at Cryptic will actually have an AGEIA card in their servers to handle the really intense scenes of interaction in the game. The player will still have to have AGEIA's PhysX card installed in their PC in order to see the effects. For Bet on Solider, a patch will be released which will add a flamethrower that fires molten lava with fluids that move around the environment realistically. We got to see this effect briefly in a live demo and its pretty cool with lava moving around rocks and environments and frying enemies even when you are behind an object
The PC version of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, due from UbiSoft in May, will also support AGEIA physics out-of-the-box. The company has four game engines that will support AGEIA, including games powered by Epic's Unreal Engine 3 and yes, that does mean that when Unreal Tournament 2007 ships, it will have AGEIA-accelerated physics when it is released "when it's done".
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