9th December 2005, 4:28 AM
Of course its over the top! What are you gonna do, go UNDER it!?
I was just thinking, with dual screens you could just slap a nice 3-D isometric radar that shows the entire level with a perspective that will show you what floor an enemy is on, basically the map screen from Metroid Prime. And it coul also display the current match stats, how much time is left, who's winning, etc.
Imagine this:
Facility
Pistols
10 minutes
Team Sleepers - Human and 3 sims
Team NiGHTS - 2 Human and 1 sim
Team DamnDaisy - 1 sim (Pantsim!)
The match starts (you're in the bathroom), you see the 3-D arrows moving across the level in search of weapons and shields, you tap your sim and a menu appears over him, you tap 'follow' and the sim shadows you. You grab a Pheonix and your sim enters the foyer to find a Falcon. No one is coming for you, so you put your sim off of Follow and on to normal, you get behind him (human shield) and you both storm the lab areas. You take on one of the human players, his Magsec is no match for explosive shells in a head to head so he's dispatched rather easily. His sim comes in and makes quick work of you with a plethora of Magnum rounds, you retreat with little health and unable to get a fix on him, you tap the 'weapons' icon to bring up your current inventory and then tap the middle of it to see your sim's current health and mode (he's still on normal) you tap 'Attack' and then select 'Sim 3'. On the radar, you see his arrow turns around and imeadiately stalks poor sim 3.
Okay..... i'm gonna go play PD now :D
I was just thinking, with dual screens you could just slap a nice 3-D isometric radar that shows the entire level with a perspective that will show you what floor an enemy is on, basically the map screen from Metroid Prime. And it coul also display the current match stats, how much time is left, who's winning, etc.
Imagine this:
Facility
Pistols
10 minutes
Team Sleepers - Human and 3 sims
Team NiGHTS - 2 Human and 1 sim
Team DamnDaisy - 1 sim (Pantsim!)
The match starts (you're in the bathroom), you see the 3-D arrows moving across the level in search of weapons and shields, you tap your sim and a menu appears over him, you tap 'follow' and the sim shadows you. You grab a Pheonix and your sim enters the foyer to find a Falcon. No one is coming for you, so you put your sim off of Follow and on to normal, you get behind him (human shield) and you both storm the lab areas. You take on one of the human players, his Magsec is no match for explosive shells in a head to head so he's dispatched rather easily. His sim comes in and makes quick work of you with a plethora of Magnum rounds, you retreat with little health and unable to get a fix on him, you tap the 'weapons' icon to bring up your current inventory and then tap the middle of it to see your sim's current health and mode (he's still on normal) you tap 'Attack' and then select 'Sim 3'. On the radar, you see his arrow turns around and imeadiately stalks poor sim 3.
Okay..... i'm gonna go play PD now :D