It's been a while since we've heard about Ion Storm's latest upcoming title, Anachronox, but to keep our attention (if possible), Barrysworld has posted a preview on the game based from what they saw at a recent press event from Eidos.[BLOCK]Despite, or perhaps because of being based on the Quake 2 engine, Ion Storm have made major modifications, introducing effects such as shadows, 32 bit colours, real-time lighting effects and a particle system. They've also created a scripting engine called APE which moves the content of the game away from the maps - which take a long time to compile - and into an external script form - which doesn't. Also included in a full scriptable camera system for those people wanting to make modifications, and used to good effect within the game itself to create cut scenes that tell you the story as it unfolds. the APE engine also allows for entire new games to be created within it's scripting environment, which can then be imported into the game as whole[/BLOCK]

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