Hyperion and Metropolis announce AmigaOS 4 version of Gorky 17

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Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003

Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis Software have extended their existing license agreement for "Gorky 17", Metropolis´ critically acclaimed RPG/Strategy title, to cover not only Linux but also the upcoming AmigaOS 4.

Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game mixing elements of strategy and RPG gameplay. The player commands a small group of NATO soldiers who must reveal the mystery behind the sudden appearance of hybrid creatures in a small Polish city named Lubin. The city is being terrorized, the area is surrounded by NATO troops and media from all over the world, and the first group sent into the city disappears without a trace. The main hero of the story is the 40-year old soldier Cole Sullivan, a commando team member with extensive scientific knowledge. His team´s task: to explain the hybrids´ presence and to find the missing members of Group One. But that, of course, is just the beginning...

The AmigaOS 4.0 port is already well under way as can be seen on the screenshots on Hyperion Entertainment's Website

The Amiga and Linux ports are being carried out by Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies who are recent "converts" to the Amiga platform after they recently joined the Hyperion Entertainment game development team.

Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies have an impressive track-record in the field of Linux (gaming) related development.

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My comment shouldn't be taken too serious, it was just a weak attempt at humor when Dammy brought up this ANN link :-) Actually, I only ever tried the Mac version of Gorky 17 once on my G3/350, and didn't have any problem at all. There had been substantial changes between 10.1 and 10.2 though.

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Seriously, why will OS4 port be better then your Mac port?

* It wasn't "my" Mac port. If you had read my now moderated comments, you'd know that I only seen it once.

* As I said before, the original press release states who does the port.

(Read this message before it gets moderated)

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Yeah, it's amazing how many people like the safe absolute dictatorship of AW, to protect them from non red-trolls, free speech, and hard facts.

I find your blindness and narrow-sightness rather amusing. You talk about dictatorship on AW.net when almost a complete thread got axed here by the moderators, and it wasn't even as bad as some other threads are. And, as I pointed out (which you will surely disagree because you are a blue troll and I am a red troll) the moderation was biased.

Free speech? I didn't experience that here.
Hard facts? All my reasoning was deleted.
Non-Red trolls? They where left alive, while I was not.

So much for your hard facts.

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I don't understand why this one particular game is so important to so many people that it's worth of 100 comments (and apparently some flamewars)

It's neither the game itself nor the comments, and the flaming only happened after Argo put the moderation axe to it. He completely overdid moderation in most posts, but left some others (most notably Dammy's first posting that got moderated in the meantime too).

That is what me off. At the same time you see people like KennyR moan about over-moderation on AW.net.

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Same software house is doing the port which would lead most people to wonder just how much is it going to be OS-X like in quality.

Like I said, I have seen it running on OS X without any problem. It was a single bad review. As I also pointed out (before it got moderated by Argo) was that the press release mentions the authors that are doing the Amiga port.

Some poorly done game is released by Hyperion, and we should all ignore it? Yeah, right.

Hyperion didn't release it. Epic released it. It happened to be that someone that works for Hyperion also did the port for Epic, someone that is not even mentioned in the press release.

I guess quality doesn't count in the software house of Hyperion, regardless on who the coder was.

This just shows it. For the last time, it was Epic's game, not Hyperion's. If you have trouble with it, complain to Epic not to Hyperion.

When a sporting team loses, it's not the fault of the worst player, it's the entire team's fault even though the Coach should publically take full responsibility for the loss.

Like I said, it's not a Hyperion game. But I guess you are just ignoring the facts for your own goodness.

OK, can someone please moderate me.