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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Ultimate Terrain X scenery upgrade for Flight Simulator X
Ultimate Terrain X - Europe
The most complete scenery upgrade for Flight Simulator X yet. Professional quality data means new roads, rivers, coastlines, railways and urban environments bring a new level of realism – day and night!
Label: Flight1
Developer: Scenery Solutions
Genre: Flight Simulator Expansion
Format: PC DVD-ROM
Release: April 2008
SRP: £29.99 / €39.95
Ultimate Terrain for FS2004 was a critical success and multiple award-winner…
• Flightsm.com Armchair Award Winner 2006
• Avsim.com Reader’s Choice 2006
• Avsim.com Bravo Zulu Award 2006 ‘Best Scenery’
• Simflight 2006 ‘Best Scenery’
Expect no less with this incredible all-new development for FSX!
The Ultimate Scenery Expansion!
Ultimate Terrain X has been designed from the ground up to take advantage of the new technologies in FSX, and provides the most superior and complete large terrain environment to date.
Using only the very highest quality commercial-source data, Ultimate Terrain X takes FSX’s terrain environment to new levels not seen before in a PC-based flight simulator.
Roads, rivers, streams, bridges, landclass, waterclass, and more are packed into Ultimate Terrain X transforming FSX both day and night!
Thought FSX was good? Ultimate Terrain is even better
The roads in FSX are a big improvement over FS2004. However, Ultimate Terrain X takes the roads one step further, by providing all the available road types from the TeleAtlas commercial data set, instead of just highways and most major roads as you get with the default sim.
Ultimate Terrain X’s road textures are very high resolution, matching FSX’s 1m landclass textures. Plus, the Ultimate Terrain X road texture types can be custom-configured.
Having improved road textures is nice. But what really make roads stand out with Ultimate Terrain X is the attention to detail, using road encasements and custom ground polygons for the interchange areas. This makes a huge difference in the urban road appearances.
For every major road and highway that crosses a water feature in Ultimate Terrain X, a 3D bridge is displayed. There are thousands of these bridge features in the USA alone.
Even dark tunnel entrances for those roads that disappear underground are included.
If you like the look of the moving road traffic in FSX, you will love the moving traffic in Ultimate Terrain X. Ultimate Terrain X greatly expands the moving traffic coverage areas in FSX.
Shorelines, Coastlines, Rivers, Streams
Anyone familiar with the previous editions of Ultimate Terrain knows that the product uses premium commercial water data available for each region. This water data is the most accurate and detailed data available at any cost.
Ultimate Terrain X takes coastlines to a whole new level, by including higher resolution rocky coastline textures, sandy beaches, concrete piers, freshwater dams, and man-made breakers. The coastline textures blend the edges of the water bodies with the land.
All oceanic coastlines have been classified by hand to give them a more appropriate look.
In the major metropolitan areas, FSX improved the body accuracy and details compared to FS2004. But outside of the metropolitan areas, there are still major missing water features and inaccurately positioned features. Ultimate Terrain X adds detailed water features throughout the entire region!
In addition to the quality source data, brand new water features add more variety to the coastlines with waterclass options that will change the water colour associated with lakes, rivers and oceans.
Ultimate Terrain X also takes advantage of Flight1’s new "Radial Elevation Theory" algorithm, which allows for nicely channelled rivers that cut right through areas of extreme elevation changes. This new algorithm virtually eliminates the sloping water problems that are common with terrain hugging rivers in Flight Simulator.
Water, water everywhere
Ultimate Terrain X dramatically improves the accuracy of cities in FSX using Flight1’s proprietary "Synthetic Landclass" generation system, which generates urban landclass based on recent commercial data sources.
This makes urban sprawls or rolling countryside and woodland appear just as it should - making visual flight even more compelling whatever the season.
Waterclass options are a unique feature of Ultimate Terrain X that controls the coloring and style of the water features for various locations around the world. Ultimate Terrain enhances the default FSX water by providing new water textures giving new blues, greens and browns as you’d see in real life.
Water colors can vary dramatically between seasons. And, many users have different opinions on how their water environment should look. Ultimate Terrain X is powerful enough for users to control their environment with multiple options.
Railways
Railways are improved using higher resolution textures, railroad track encasement textures, railyard ground textures, and tunnel entrances.
A 3D bridge object is also placed where all railroad tracks cross water.
Night Lighting
Ultimate Terrain X night lighting consists of points of light that represent things like street lights, intersection lights, and vehicle lights. They look great!
Improvements with Ultimate Terrain X gives: brighter lights against the very bright FSX background, prevent autogen reduction, eliminates "floating lights" from differing mesh products.
Ground Textures
Ultimate Terrain X includes unique custom ground textures for specialized areas:
Beaches – Glaciers – Cemeteries - Highway Interchanges - Tunnel Entrances - Railroad Yards - Small Islands - Parking Lots - Grassy, Forest, or Concrete areas for landmark features.
Object Repositioning
To make sure that the current custom FSX objects line up with the new scenery data, Ultimate Terrain X repositions many objects to better align with road and water features. This includes things like buildings, ships, docks, and custom bridge objects (e.g. the Golden Gate Bridge).
Ultimate Terrain Setup Tool – for the ultimate control
Ultimate Terrain X was designed from the ground up, to provide a near total configurable environment.
Advanced users will marvel at the fact that they can have different textures assigned to nearly every Ultimate Terrain feature. For example, you can change the sizes of things like stream widths, road widths and coastline widths using the new Setup Tool.
The tool also allows novice users to get up and running quickly whilst letting the advanced user have unprecedented configurability over their Flight Simulator X environment.
System Requirements
MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR X or 2004
Windows – Windows XP or Vista
Processor – 2.8 GHz
Memory – 2 Gb RAM
Hard Drive – 200 Mb free
Video Card – 256 Mb
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Rail Simulator & Official Expansion Pack Super Sale
Until 9am on Tuesday 17th June you can buy a copy of Rail Simulator and the Official Expansion Pack (DVD-ROM and Download) at Super Sale prices.
Rail Simulator normally sells for £29.99 / €44.95 / $59.99, but is on sale now at only £19.99/€29.95/$39.99.
The Official Expansion Pack adds the Californian route from the US release of Rail Simulator and the iconic British 08 Shunter, plus extra rolling stock, scenarios and more. The normal price for the DVD-ROM version and the Download is £19.99 / €29.95 / $39.99, but for a few days only it's yours for just £16.99 / €24.95 / $33.99.
Save even more by buying the Rail Simulator and Official Expansion Pack Bundle. The price for both DVD-ROM packages is now reduced from the usual £39.99 / €59.95 / $79.99 to only £34.99 / €52.95 / $69.99.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Metal Gear Solid 4 - Guns of the Patriots Free magazine
GamerZines.com produces one-off magazine dedicated to the year's hottest PlayStation 3 title.
GamerZines.com, the portal for free digital magazines for gamers, today announced the immediate availability of the Metal Gear Solid 4 - Guns of the Patriots magazine. Produced by the same team that creates P3Zine, the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots magazine offers a complete guide to the upcoming PlayStation 3 title.
“Getting access to Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots to produce this magazine meant that we could produce a unique guide that lifts the lid on the game that every PlayStation 3 owner can’t wait to play. Everyone wants to know how Hideo Kojima will bring the Metal Gear series to what is expected to be its ultimate conclusion” says Editorial Director, Dan Hutchinson.In addition to delivering an in-depth tour of the new game, the magazine includes an exclusive interview with Hideo Kojima, as well as providing readers with a look back at the twenty years of Metal Gear through the video gaming ages. Available in English, French, Italian and German, and complete with hi-resolution screens, interactive elements and gameplay video, all available directly on the magazine pages, this official guide from Konami is a must-read for all Metal Gear fans.
All GamerZines.com magazines are professionally written and produced by a team of games journalists and publishers with decades of experience in the magazine industry. The portal offers free monthly magazines for various games platforms in interactive PDF format. All the magazines are enhanced with rich media and extensive video of the games in action.
Readers do not need to register to download the magazines, which are all completely free. All that is required to view the magazines is Adobe Reader version 6 or above on Windows or Mac, and a broadband internet connection.
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Alone in the Dark PC download available now with Free bonus countdown
European pre-orders for the downloadable PC version of highly anticipated action survival game Alone in the Dark are open now at www.atari-store.com.
Buy the game for €49.99 and get free bonus content of two music tracks from the game’s official soundtrack composed by Olivier Deriviere, and parts 1 and 2 of the making of documentary feature in which the team at Eden Games reveal the secrets behind this landmark videogame production.
Fans who pre-order will be able to pre-load the game 24 hours before the official release date, and will receive the activation key shortly after midnight on the day of launch making them among the first to be able to play Alone in the Dark.
Featuring a gripping story, design inspired by contemporary TV action dramas, and original gameplay based on real world rules physics, the action survival opus Alone in the Dark will launch across Europe on 20 June for Xbox 360, PC, Wii and PlayStation 2, with the PLAYSTATION 3 version following later in 2008. For more information on Alone in the Dark visit www.CentralDark.com.
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