As Leonard Boyarsky stated in the interview he did with GameBanshee, there was some concern about Troika's ability to get funds to develop the engine of which we have all seen the PA demo video. In the interview he mentions, however, that they were working on two games on the SOURCE engine, one of them Post-Apocalyptic. Somewhat confused (was Troika working on TWO post-apoc games?), we asked Leon to give us some clarity. That he did:<blockquote>There were two different demos - the one you've seen was using our own engine. We did another one with the HL2 engine (using the same avatar and robot but with a Vampire 1st/third person camera) where we took the Gargoyle's AI from Vamp and gave it to the robot so you could fight him.</blockquote>Understandably, Troika wanted to be able to pitch the game both from the "we can do it with a ready-to-work-with engine (SOURCE)" angle or from the "we can develop the engine and make the game" angle. Sadly both angles fell through.
Of course now we know there's a Troika post-apoc demo were you can fight the robot. Leon, we want this demo!
Of course now we know there's a Troika post-apoc demo were you can fight the robot. Leon, we want this demo!
