Desert Law

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There's a new Post Apocalyptic game in progress, it's called Desert Law. Here's a little description:<blockquote>Desert Law is a new spin on the traditional real-time strategy that immerses players into a post-apocalyptic world where gasoline is the new world currency. Players can have anything if they have gas to pay for it, or gamers can loose everything with one tactical mistake. Mankind is rebuilding civilization off the scattered remains of pre-doomsday technology, with unfamiliar equipment and knowledge, which it inherited from ancestors. Disorderly gangs roam the wastelands, and if gamers want to survive, they will have to fight to stay alive in this mad world. Players can choose from more than 50 types of vehicles with different kinds of military equipment, from the ordinary car to radically altered homemade war machines.</blockquote>Here are some screenshots:<blockquote><center> </center></blockquote>That's about all the info there is on this title.
Thanks to Petruschka for informing me!
 
I guess in a post apocalyptic world... combat will be strictly fought between cars... where're the people?

If gasoline is currency and I'm guessing is fairly rare, why is everyone roaming around in armed cars?
 
lilfyffedawg said:
If gasoline is currency and I'm guessing is fairly rare, why is everyone roaming around in armed cars?
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That's what I thought, you'd think if petrol is scarce, then they's only use it for "Special Occaisions".
 
"Special occasions" as in raiding people who don't have cars?
 
Wooz69 said:
"Special occasions" as in raiding people who don't have cars?
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Why use cars for that?
If you're raiding them, you prolly have superiority of numbers, element of surprise, etc...
Why waste good petrol on them?

I'd only use petrol for major raids (on large groups, where a bit of extra force is needed), and petrol aquiring raids.
 
Oh, coome on, you wouldn't get this special Mad Max feel if you didn't have armed cars. And who cares if you're combusting money? It's the genre that counts :silly:
 
RTS? I dunno, sometimes I like them, but :?

However the screenies look awesome, I like the Mad Maxedness of it all.

(Remember, in The Road Warrior, gasoline/petrol was really scarce as well. But those that had it were powerful, and could afford to use it in vehicles to get more.)
 
To Wooz69: No, I believe it is the 'Blitzkrieg' engine, by Nival Interactive. I you look at their (the people making Desert Law) site, one of their other projects is 'Stalingrad', also based on the 'Blietzkrieg' engine. But this is only my theory, and I might be completely wrong as I do not know what the 'Haste' engine looks like.

-Grehan
 
It also looks like Tiberain Sun engine, but its kinda old, so i am not sure... Well, anyway, I think this is going to be a great game.
 
To me, it looks like Micro Machines Racers. So far, with what little info is available, and the par for 1998 graphics of the screenies, I imagine this will be a budget bin title, and even then I doubt I will *buy* it.
 
Why do the 'radically altered war machines' all look the same? Same .50 cal, same mount, same truck.

What How can they afford to run a big rig w/o a fuel trailer all to itself?

Hmm, making a game about dueling cars for the sake of dueling cars seems like the recipe for the bargain bin to me. I'll buy it when I see it for $15. Until then, I'll go play Mech4 Mercenaries.
 
I'm not so interested in the cars, but they look great. What I want to know is there is going to be real soldiers, cyborgs or any type of grunt. The game needs people running in panick too.
Anyway it looks MUCH better then KKND.
 
Frankly, it looks like piece of shit.
... I'd prefere to play "Falling bomb simulator - the world war 2 from the brand new perspective". Sure there wouldn't be much to do in game but hey, it looks awesome and it's on blahblah engine !
 
I agree with the point above- if petrol is the currency, why fight in cars.

That said, the idea of putting a .50 cal on a Monster Truck and kicking ass in a post-apoc town could be kind of fun. I actually like these pictures.

But maybe that's because I was denied the Monster Truck experience as a kid.
 
That's one thing I always thought was stupid about Road Warrior. You got these people living in this oil derrick thing with big, fortified walls and such, and homosexual punks attacking them for the gasoline there.. in gas powered cars.. And yet no one stopped to think, What the hell are these people eating and drinking?

Oil is important for modern society, sure, but it's not a basic need. You won't die quickly if you don't have it.
 
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