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New Atari Games Revealed 44

Posted by Zonk from the go-macedonia! dept.
Thanks to HomeLANFed for the news that several new Atari games have been revealed on the official site. These include the action title "Chronos", and the much anticipated Civilization IV.
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  • Anyone else... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Lendrick ( 314723 ) on Thursday October 21, 2004 @01:52PM (#10589785) Homepage Journal
    Did anyone else think that someone tried to implement Civilization on an Atari 2600 cartridge as a joke?

  • Civ IV (Score:3, Funny)

    by OrangeStar ( 820331 ) on Thursday October 21, 2004 @01:56PM (#10589857) Journal
    With a new title! "Almost as good as the last one!" Which was almost as good as the last one..

    • Re:Civ IV (Score:4, Interesting)

      by Daetrin ( 576516 ) on Thursday October 21, 2004 @02:30PM (#10590364)
      With a new title! "Almost as good as the last one!" Which was almost as good as the last one..

      Actually, if you'd been paying attention to previous news on the subject, [slashdot.org] you would know that a more proper title would be "As different from the previous game as we can make it and still call it Civilization," which will doubtless please some people and cause them to declare that it's the best Civ other while enraging others and causing them to declare that it's the worst Civ ever.

      And generally speaking, the majority of people seem to agree that Civ2 was a big improvement over the original Civ, while opinion is split on whether Civ2 or Civ3 was better.

      And in other news, as the updated article now says the games are no longer listed, which makes sense since as far as I can tell the list consists entirely of already released games.

      • And generally speaking, the majority of people seem to agree that Civ2 was a big improvement over the original Civ, while opinion is split on whether Civ2 or Civ3 was better. ...and Alpha Centauri remains the best of any games spawned out of the series.

        • Re:Civ IV (Score:2, Interesting)

          by great throwdini ( 118430 )
          ...and Alpha Centauri remains the best of any games spawned out of the series.

          Though, in my opinion, it was by far the easiest of the bunch to "win" against AI opponents. The buggiest, as well. The unit customization was an interesting feature to add, but I think, in the end, it was simply something that the AI couldn't effectively cope with (among other things). More fun than Civ III, but pretty flawed in terms of balance.

          • I liked the unit customization, but there were limits...
            I wanted to make a orbital drop transport to load my units into and the drop them anwhere on the map. Should be possible under the system, but it wouldn't work right...
            Definately a great game with the video clips for techs and wonders... loved that..

        • Re:Civ IV (Score:3, Interesting)

          by Daetrin ( 576516 )
          and Alpha Centauri remains the best of any games spawned out of the series.

          Well that goes without saying :)

          It might be nice to see a sequel to Alpha Centauri, however they'd either have to stick to just updating the graphics and AI or redo the entire thing from scratch. The old storyline was great, with compelling voice acting for the various quotes and other story bits and Baraka [imdb.com] was a gold mine for the video clips.

      • Appart from AP I realy like CTP II, at least much more as Civ3 and ctp1

  • You sure about that? (Score:5, Informative)

    by Orne ( 144925 ) on Thursday October 21, 2004 @01:59PM (#10589907) Homepage
    Because i just clicked on Show All [atari.com] (after visiting Atari's page [atari.com] linked in the article), and Civilization IV is no longer in the list. Perhaps someone noticed, and retracted the listings.

    The internet, it is fleeting...
  • Sigh, just because they bought the name [kikizo.com], doesn't mean the have to whore it about the internet.

    Oh no, it does doesn't it..

  • Wish they would list the Linux titles seperately (Score:3, Insightful)

    by wowbagger ( 69688 ) on Thursday October 21, 2004 @02:11PM (#10590088) Homepage Journal
    I wish they would list those titles that are available under Linux seperately, rather than having a small footnote in the PC-CDROM section.

  • Atari 2600 (Score:1, Insightful)

    by cbx_cbx ( 787665 )
    With this 2600-one-button joystick picture besides the news, its impossible to any Geek that was born before 76 to not think of those games as new home-brew games, for thr Atari2600.

    hmmmm, Civ4, kind of creepy...

  • WTF? (Score:3, Funny)

    by dogbowl ( 75870 ) on Thursday October 21, 2004 @02:58PM (#10590681) Homepage
    Are these 2k or 4k cartidges? There wasn't any mention of that.
    Do I get to finally use my paddle controllers?
  • CIV4 was announced a year ago and reports of it were out back in May of 2003, check out the Aplyton (civ fan forums) section on it: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid =103185

  • Remember people, they're not just new games, they are new Atari games! Atari! A name to trust.
    This article brought to you by Atari, Atari, we make life worth living.

    Is anyone working on a astroturfblock plug-in for Firefox? I think we're about due for one of those...

    P.S. Atari!

  • "offical" statement from Atari (Score:5, Informative)

    by pjgunst ( 452345 ) <pjgunst&skynet,be> on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:10PM (#10592299)

    There truly is a Civ 4, but we are not announcing anything definitive about it just yet. The majority of Firaxis's programmers at this point are focused on the Sid Meier's Pirates! release this November. But a team has been working on Civ 4 for sometime already.

    We'll have more information available in 2005, including features, screenshots, and some sort of launch date.

    Best,
    Jeff Foley
    Sr. Brand Manager
    Atari
    • always forget to refer to my sources: http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.ph p?s=d9cc8b2fb7f30464c464300cdb8d5f43&threadid=4084 92

      quickly scanned the forum for more info... but they seem reluctant to comment on users wishes for Civ4.
      Thanks Sid for the great games, been playing them ever since Civ1 was released.
  • ...I got all excited thinking they were releasing new versions of the classics. I was getting all hyped up to play some Asteroids and some Frogger!

    But no, instead I am greeted with Civ IV, which I am sure will be graphically stunning, and totally engrossing...but where's the little green blob hopping across the road!? The sad thing is that most games today don't live up to Centipede, Asteroids, Missile Command and the other classics. Those were the good old days.

    Let's not go too far back though...Pong

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