Mest för pansarfanatiker; SB Pro PE

[Olle P]

Steel Beasts Professional Personal Edition

Coming this autumn, from eSim Games

 

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Sept. 28, 2004 - Software developer eSim Games, LLC, today announced that Steel Beasts® Professional Personal Edition, a PC-based simulation of small-unit armored and mechanized combat for individual users, will be available in late Autumn 2004, and sold exclusively through its online store.

 

"We're happy to announce this news to our customers", said eSim Games' president and programmer, Alexander H. Delaney. "Many fans have been waiting for this since the release of Steel Beasts Gold, our last consumer game version. We have spent the last years on a number of dramatic improvements to the product, largely influenced by the requirements of serious training.

 

"Thanks to the support of the Danish Army and others, we can now offer a number of playable vehicles that have never before been modeled by any simulation game that we know of. The M2/M3 Bradley fighting vehicles are a world premiere, as are the Leopard 2A5 and 1A5 versions, and a playable artillery forward observer vehicle. They come in addition to the M1A1 Abrams and the Leopard 2A4 that have been the centerpieces of the original Steel Beasts simulation game. Overall, Steel Beasts now offers by far more than ever before."

 

In addition to these major fighting vehicles, two other vehicles can be commanded as well from a 1st person perspective - the Humvee and M113 with cal .50 heavy MG - and more than 26 additional combat and combat support vehicles from the external observer's position.

 

"It's not just the vehicles", Technical Director Nils Hinrichsen added. "We have now five different types of minefields, both visible and invisible, various point obstacles to block roads or simulate checkpoints, dug-in emplacements to increase the cover for vehicles and infantry, as well as instruments to breach most of these obstacles."

 

"Experienced SB players and students of combined arms combat tactics will love the added depth to tactical versatility and the many new elements. It's a whole new experience that retains the strengths of the classic simulation game of the year 2000, while addressing many requests from our customers back then."

 

Most noticeably, Steel Beasts Professional is based on a brand new, custom-built graphics engine, compatible with DirectX 9 to take advantage of today's powerful consumer graphics cards. The new graphics engine can render fine details up close, with visibility distances of about 5 kilometers. Good frame rates can be maintained with only moderate hardware requirements.

 

Steel Beasts Professional will require DirectX 9 installed, and GeForce 3 / Radeon 8500 or faster graphics cards. eSim Games recommends 1.5 GHz or faster processors, 256 MByte RAM, and about 800 MByte of free hard disk space.

 

Steel Beasts gave its debut as a tank simulation game of modern tanks in summer 2000. Development on Steel Beasts Professional started after the release of Steel Beasts Gold in April 2002. Over the past two years, the new engine was prepared, and the focus shifted from a purely armor centric point of view to a simulation of company level combined arms combat tactics.

 

Steel Beasts is from independent developer eSim Games, LLC, with its headquarters located in Sunnyvale, California.

For more information, visit http://www.eSimGames.com, or contact Nils Hinrichsen: [email protected]

Förtydliganden:

* Leopard 2A5 är Leopard 2A5dk

* Leopard 1A5 är Leopard 1A5dk

* M1A1 är M1A1(HA)

* Leopard 2A4 är i tyskt utförande

* Spelet/simulatorn har fullständig svensk och dansk, men inte norsk, översättning av text och ljud.

* Priset för den här versionen är 125 USD, inklusive frakt.

* Säljs endast online från eSimgames och kommer "under hösten", vilket på annan plats har definierats som "innan december".

 

Den som inte vill beställa på nätet eller betala 125 dollar för ett spel kan vänta drygt ett år på Steel Beasts 2 som är "konsumentversionen" av spelet ovan, mer riktat till vanliga "gamers" och med prislapp därefter.

SB2 saknar en del av finesserna i proffsversionen för att göra det mer lättspelat, men får i stället fler färdiga scenarier och möjlighet att länka scenarier till någon form av kampanj.

SB Pro PE är i första hand en pansarstridssimulator, SB2 är ett spel.

 

Vill ha! :dribble: ... men har inte råd, ännu...

 

/Olle