Myth@Bungie.Org

Monday November 13th 2000

Myth III? and a Jinn screenshot { Lophan }

Gamecenter has a feature article up talking about 8 Great Future RTS Games due to come out within the next two years or so. After poring through a lot of senseless rambling, I did happen upon the following passage:
"Take 2 Interactive has three separate RTS products under contract, including Bungie's Myth III, Rockstar's Wild Metal Country, and PopTop Software's Tropico. Myth III will again feature a fully realized, rotateable 3D environment and an intricate military component, two reasons why the series has been so successful with gamers worldwide. "
Hmmm... this is a long way from an official announcement but kingdoms have fallen on lesser rumors. Got anything to add or speculate?... head to the Forums!

This news from our own Freewill at Bungie Sightings:

"In late October, Clan Plaid organized one of its famous get togethers, deemed West Coast Gathering III. One of our esteemed members is beta testing Jinn, and with the permission of the Jinn gods, we were allowed to test this awesome TC for Myth II. We had video rolling and have cut a slice out for public consumption. You can find it here. It's 7MB in file size and lasts for 01:30.

You can see the very cool title screen for Jinn in our roll call video. There are two versions:
70mb - Full screen mpeg version (fat pipes would only dare!)
20mb - quarter screen version in Quicktime format
Download those for a few laughs and if you want to see what a bunch of us look like."

I managed to capture an image of the Jinn title screen off the mpeg version and it looks damn sweet. I, for one, am dying to get this game on my hard drive and frankly, you should be too.

And in non-Myth news: those of you following the development of the Marathon Open Source project known as Aleph One would do well to try out the new Marathon One Demo for Infinity and Aleph One. It's really something to see the original textures from the 1994 classic rendered in OpenGL. For the uninitiated, here's some links to get you started: