![]() Pocket Studios will also likely add scaling and rotation effects for eye candy in the backgrounds. Added villains are also a pre-requisite, although the original certainly didn't lack it's attackers. Pocket Studios wasn't able to comment on exactly where the Game Boy Advance Dropzone will improve over the original and subsequent adaptations, but we're hoping that they include the mini-boss and simple story functions of the SNES version (drastically improved, we'd assume). This will be the third console adaptation of Dropzone, after a Game Boy Color version and an advanced SNES copy, and while this simple shooter is part of a dead generation of arcade-type shooters, the action of Dropzone is still just as fresh as ever once you're up to your afterburners in alien marauders. If you haven't played Dropzone before, think Midway's Defender with even sharper enemies and faster gameplay. The one thing that won't change between the old Dropzone and the new GBA Dropzone is the blistering action. Once the team comes to grips with the system, expect a full graphic overhaul to better utilize the system's special effect capabilities and update the game for today's advanced player. Not that taking a 15-year-old C64 game and porting it to a 32-bit high-res sprite pusher would need all of the hardware of the new system, but Pocket Studios is just testing the waters with Dropzone at the moment - these mock-ups were just tests done to get to know the hardware. Shooter action combined with strategic hostage rescue missionsÄeveloped by the same company behind the technically incredible Alone In The Dark GBC, Dropzone is being tested as a Game Boy Advance game, and already the team is greatly pleased with the sprite capabilities of the new system.Based on the classic action game by Archer Maclean.I'm tellin' ya, there's more truth to that movie than most skydivers are willing to admit because it's much "cooler" to put it down. You're right, they didn't leave a pretty corpse on the accuracy pad, but that's not the freekin' point. I've also known of folks that have decided it's time to make their last jump and end it all. I'm pretty sure little dz romances pop-up every now and then. I know people that really have no business being on a team because they really just kind of suck, but they're determined to "belong". I know complete techno geeks that can tell you ever aspect of the perfect jump. I know one or two folks in the sport that don't take anything seriously. I know one or two highly competitive folks in the sport that take things a bit too seriously. I still maintain a trailer at the dz I use as a team room. At one point I had even considered it myself. I have known people that have dropped out of real life to become dz bums. I saw characters in Cutaway that I recognised at my dropzone as real people. When I said it was based more in fact than fiction, I was speaking of the some of the characters and sub-plots of the film which are in -my- experience pretty damn accurate. Then again, he made a movie on time and under budget, which is commendable. ![]() So, yeah, he cheaped out on a few things. 23 days of shooting even at minimum scale would be at least an additional $35,000 for characters that wouldn't really add anything to the plot. ![]() ![]() Also, It's a pretty large cast already even with only an 8-way adding in 3 more people to the mix (What? You forgot the camera flyer?) would have made writing the script a bit more difficult and, like I said, would have impacted the budget quite a bit. Why 8-way? Maybe because it's 80% less expensive on the budget than 10-way. is going to give Hussein a pass, the tooth fairy will blow anybody for a quarter (ask her what she'll do for a dollar) and Olav Zipser is taking humility training. We have 'cut away' parties at least once a month as doctors, lawyers and real life people make the switch, 'take the plunge'.so to speak. And yeah, I've seen a lot of friends 'cut away' when they decided to quit the real world and become full time skydivers and DZ denizens, trading in their S.U.V.'s for ramshackle caravans and tents. I liked the suicide cutaway and track at the end where he landed right dead center in the peas and was looking pretty good for all his troubles too. What happend to 8-way as it is? But the tracking mirror (complete with sound effect) made us rewind to see it again a couple of times. Why did they have 8 way speed star as the big Nationals event? We already have 10-way. This movie sucked! It's chock full of holes. I've been around 14 years - and not just weekends - and I still think Guy Manos should be ashamed of himself. ![]()
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