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How about we all just wait until voting starts?
Reviews might make people more inclined to vote for a certain game over another.
Please don't.

Perry Bible Fellowship at 3rd place?
With "Girly" ranked higher?
What is the world coming to.

Oh my.
The trailer itself looked very, very nice, but the voice acting REALLY ruined it for me.
It's... so bad.

It's been posted in the tutorial thread already: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=600.msg83733#msg83733

EMI backgrounds were hand-drawn.  Which is why they looked so much better than the rest of the rest of the graphics.

No... no they were not.
They were prerendered 3D scenes.

'Tis Freddie Mercury!

This is not very good. I apologise.





This person did stuff.

I have the Larry Vales III demo.
Just PM me with your email address and I'll send it right away.

The graphics seem nice, but the animations... ugh.
And it seems to be in Russian (or some other Cyrillic language), I presume it'll be translated to English?

I shall keep my eye on this one.

I'll stop talking before you can misquote me again.

Misquote?
There aren't many other ways, or any, for that matter, to interpret what you said other than one that is belittling and dumb. Or, uh. Or did you just try to let us know that they were not, in fact, the same event? I'm sure most of us know that.

Please explain, if even just in PM, because I am pretty damn curious as to what you meant.

Well, it's no 9/11

That is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard.

My condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

I was not too keen on the narrator.

Eek!  How can you not like Morgan Freeman??

I know you just mean the difference between old and new;)

It's so easy not to like him when you compare him to Richard Burton.
I uploaded a sample of the intro, and left a bit of the fabled "DUN DUN DUNNN" in.
http://al.xylot.com/burton.mp3
You can't POSSIBLY tell me Morgan Freeman is better than this.

Well I doubt Jeff Wayne's too upset about not getting the call for Spielberg's film - I just saw this week's UK album charts and his War Of The Worlds album went in at no. 6. Nice bit of success by osmosis, there.

Also because he is making his own War of the Worlds movie.

In other news, I have just seen this movie and liked it a lot.
It was pirated, so the quality wasn't great, but I WILL go see it in the cinema when it gets here this weekend.

Having pretty much been brought up on the musical (I own the vinyls and CDs), I was not too keen on the narrator.
I was so used to the musical that when the narrator finished talking and there was no "DUN DUN DUNNN", I was sort of confused. But I enjoyed this movie. A lot. The tripods were awesome, and I was rather surprised that they kept original ending.

One thing that did bother me a bit was how Ogilvy, the "well known astronomer" who was one of the first victims of the heat ray in the novel turned out to be a completely different character, whose only similarity to the original is the name. I also expected the ferry scene to be more Thunder Child-ish, but that's nothing bad really.

Can't wait to see it in the cinema.

[SPOILER ALERT - READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!]

SPOILER ALERT - READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

- Why were they spraying blood?  Why were they draining the people in the first place?

From the original novel:
"And this was the sum of the Martian organs. Strange as it may seem to a human being, all the complex apparatus of digestion, which makes up the bulk of our bodies, did not exist in the Martians. They were heads--merely heads. Entrails they had none. They did not eat, much less digest. Instead, they took the fresh, living blood of other creatures, and injected it into their own veins."

As to the rest, I do not know, as I have not seen the movie.

I can't wait though and because I'm a BIG fan of Jeff Wayne's musical (much moreso than the book, which I actually found ratherr dull) I'm curious as to what they kept.

Can you see the heat rays? Because you're not supposed to (being just... heat). Are they even called heat rays or are they "lasers"?

You might be interested in this, then.
Test animations from a CGI movie (official) being made, due out in 2007, based on concepts from Jeff Wayne's musical (well, the booklet that came with it. ).

And even there you can see the heat rays. Because, well. Invisible heat rays in a film would be rather dull.

I can't wait to see this movie.
I've listened to the Jeff Wayne musical countless times over the last few days in anticipation.

This... took too long.

That is pretty much the same thing Hotspot linked to, but enhanced with some stuff (well. I assume it's enhanced, anyway). Google probably bought it, or something.

Awesome.

Edit:
Yep.

http://junk.dk/puzzle/ (which has links to some other articles as well)
http://www.scottkim.com/thinkinggames/GDC00/bates.html

There was another article by Blake Speers on Mattgoble's website, but it appears to be gone.