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  1.  │                        Outcast (c) Appeal / Infogrames                    │
  2.  ├────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┤
  3.  │  Supplier.....: Satan              │  Release Date...: 06/24/99           │
  4.  │  Cracker......: Hank/Bski/YazZ/Goa │  Game Type......: Action Adventure   │
  5.  │  # of Disks...: 50 x 2.88          │  Game Rating....: 99%                │
  6.  ├────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┤
  7.  │ REQUIREMENTS: p133, 32 MB RAM, 320 MB HD, DX6.1                           │
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  9.  │ Outcast is the all-new 3D-action-adventure developed by the young and     │
  10.  │ ambitious software company Appeal, who have set up their camp in          │
  11.  │ Namur, Belgium. In Outcast the player aka hero Cutter Slade has to        │
  12.  │ fight, sneak and discuss his way through a parallel-world full of         │
  13.  │ bloodthirsty enemies and neutral NPCs. Unlike anything ever seen          │
  14.  │ before, Outcast seems to be the first game to deliver "Real-Life-3D",     │
  15.  │ possible by generating a highly interactive environment with it's own     │
  16.  │ ground-breaking artificial intelligence system GAIA. Featuring            │
  17.  │ top-notch Voxel- and Polygon-graphics and a huge world to discover,       │
  18.  │                                                                           │
  19.  │ Outcast is heading to be one of the blockbusters of the year.             │
  20.  │                                                                           │
  21.  │ Read more about this great game at www.outcast-game.com and               │
  22.  │ www.outcastcentral.com.                                                   │
  23.  │                                                                           │
  24.  │                                                                           │
  25.  │ Features:                                                                 │
  26.  │ ~~~~~~~~~                                                                 │
  27.  │                                                                           │
  28.  │  - Revolutionary Graphics-engine combining Voxel-landscapes and           │
  29.  │    buildings with Polygon-characters                                      │
  30.  │  - 6 huge worlds                                                          │
  31.  │  - 163000 displayed voxels per frame                                      │
  32.  │  - 24 million voxels per world                                            │
  33.  │  - Over 20 different character types                                      │
  34.  │  - Skeletal Animation                                                     │
  35.  │  - 52000 motion-captured animation frames                                 │
  36.  │  - Up to 20 textures per character                                        │
  37.  │  - All current state-of-the-art graphic-features like Gouraud Shading,    │
  38.  │    Coloured Lighting, Texture Mapping, Mip-mapping, 32bit Z-buffering,    │
  39.  │    Bilinear Filtering etc.                                                │
  40.  │  - Bump-Mapping                                                           │
  41.  │  - Anti-Aliasing                                                          │
  42.  │  - Dynamic Shadowing                                                      │
  43.  │  - Advanced Particle System                                               │
  44.  │  - Advanced materials rendering (skin, chrome, metal, translucend...)     │
  45.  │  - Realistic Physics Engine                                               │
  46.  │  - Advanced AI featuring natural instincts (self-preservation, hunger,    │
  47.  │    exhaustion...), emotions (curiosity, fear...) and wishes (earn         │
  48.  │    money, information, make friends...)                                   │
  49.  │  - Complete social structure with money, food and information flow        │
  50.  │    consisting of 600 individual NPCs                                      │
  51.  │  - 1st and 3rd person perspective                                         │
  52.  │  - Intelligent AI-grunts, who communicate, duck behind obstacles, use     │
  53.  │    advanced combat tactics (flanking, covering...) and flee when they     │
  54.  │    are about to be overrun                                                │
  55.  │  - 6 weapons, each of which can be upgraded 3 times (including Flame      │
  56.  │    Thrower, Grenade, Launcher, Laser...)                                  │
  57.  │  - Lots of useful tools and items like X-ray goggles,  a cloaking         │
  58.  │    device, explosives, a holographic projector etc.                       │
  59.  │  - 60 minutes of original music (Moscow Symphony Orchestra) - 24          │
  60.  │    singers in the chorus                                                  │
  61.  │                                                                           │
  62.  │ Ripped:                                                                   │
  63.  │ ~~~~~~~                                                                   │
  64.  │ To get this baby down to 50 disks, we had to take out the speech, movies  │
  65.  │ and high resolutions. Expect an addon with the highres stuff.             │
  66.  │ Some wonderful classic music was also heard from the second (audio) cd.   │
  67.  │                                                                           │
  68.  │ Install:                                                                  │
  69.  │ ~~~~~~~~                                                                  │
  70.  │ LOADER.EXE to start the game - you will be presented with the settings    │
  71.  │ menu - MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THESE SETTINGS :  don't choose a screen resolu- │
  72.  │ tion above 320x240 unless you have the addon - do not activate Highres    │
  73.  │ Anims either or Bumpmapping without it. Also make sure subtitles are      │
  74.  │ engaged and voices are turned off. And for those who would ask us every 5 │
  75.  │ minutes: there is NO support. for any hardware 3d acceleration because of │
  76.  │ the use of Voxel technology. Keep Voices turned off and Subtitles turned  │
  77.  │ on.                                                                       │
  78.  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────[05.03.99]──┘
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