Trespasser is a fascinating
game. Set to be the most
revolutionary FPS of 1997, the
end result was less than
desirable. The game was going
to pioneer many features that
have become standard in FPS
games in recent years.
Physics, complex AI, real-time
shadowing, water shader
technology, an animation
system based entirely onmore

Trespasser is a fascinating
game. Set to be the most
revolutionary FPS of 1997, the
end result was less than
desirable. The game was going
to pioneer many features that
have become standard in FPS
games in recent years.
Physics, complex AI, real-time
shadowing, water shader
technology, an animation
system based entirely on
inverse kinematics, bump
mapping and specular
highlighting, and an amazing
sound system. Trespasser was
going to change the face of
the FPS in 1997 forever.

Unfortunately, everything that
could go wrong, did. Poor
communication with the
development team, going
over-budget, being delayed...
in the end, Trespasser, a game
intended to be more of a
puzzle-based survival horror
game, was shifted to become an
action-based FPS, and shipped
with tons of bugs, broken
features, cumbersome controls
and missing content. Every
revolutionary feature
contained within the game was
completely ignored in favor of
how horribly awful every other
aspect of it was.

That's not to say the game
isn't without it's charm, or
without it's fans, though.
Even Gabe Newell, at one
point, has said Trespasser
inspired him to include
physics in the Half-Life 2
engine, and FarCry seems to
take a lot of what Trespasser
wanted to do, and does it the
right way - early versions of
FarCry even featured
Dinosaurs. The fansite Trescom
provides Trespasser related
content even today. Still more
projects have been born to
remake the game in newer,
more able game engines, like
the aformentioned FarCry
Engine.

The game puts you in the shoes
of Anne, a woman who decides
to take an unannounced
vacation and ends up having
crash-landed on Isla Sorna;
'Site B'. The experience ends
up changing her life and makes
her appreciate her old life
more than ever before.

As you play, clips of John
Hammond's memoirs play, voiced
by Richard Attenborough
himself. Minnie Driver plays
Anne. Truly, Hammond's
Memoir's are one of the few
redeeming factors you get out
of playing Trespasser.

It's worth noting that the man
behind Trespasser's concept
was Seamus Blackley - better
known as the brainchild behind
Microsoft's Xbox. Seamus is so
ashamed of Trespasser nowadays
that he refuses to even speak
of it to anyone.

To learn more about
Trespasser, see it's Wikipedia
page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
urassic_Park:_Trespasser

Category Gadgets & Games

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