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BEGINS THE REVOLUTION San
Jose, Ca. March 20th 2001 – Elixir Studios invites curious tourists to take a
trip inside their highly touted game Republic: The Revolution at its first
ever public showing at the forthcoming Games Developer Conference in San Jose
on the 22nd of March. The demo will be in the Civic Auditorium
in the San Jose convention center. Demis
Hassabis, CEO and Lead Designer will be giving a talk entitled Level of Detail
AI at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday 22nd of March. This will also include a
demonstration of the game’s groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence, which
features innovative level of detail techniques allowing for AI on an
unprecedented scale. The
game, described as "one of the most ambitious games ever conceived"
by games industry bible Edge magazine, features many thousands of unique
people in every city, each of whom has a range of opinions on issues as
diverse as class, religion, poverty and morality causing them to respond to
the dramatic events unfolding around them. Combined agent interactions create
emergent and realistic behaviour such as jubilant crowds and rioting students. Hassabis,
who first made his name co-creating Theme Park with Peter Molyneux at the
tender age of 16, will also be giving attendees the chance to examine Elixir’s
Totality Engine at first hand. The game features cities and towns rendered
in full 3D with buildings of up to half a million polygons each. Immediately
after the demonstration Hassabis will be taking part in what promises to be
lively round table discussion entitled "Consoles vs. PCs: Is the PC
Dead?" featuring industry heavyweights Ed Fries (Head of Games,
Microsoft), Trip Hawkins (Founder EA), Bruce Shelley (Civilization, Age of
Empires) and Phil Harrison (Sony). Republic:
The Revolution is a game in which the player competes against up to sixteen
other factions to take control of a fictional Eastern European Republic.
Winner of the Game of The Show award in PC Format the UK’s best selling PC
Leisure magazine at the 2000 E3 Expo. Published by Eidos Interactive, the game
is scheduled for release for Spring 2002. About
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and Nintendo® Game Boy® Color. Eidos Interactive is part of London-based
Eidos plc (NASDAQ: EIDSY) with additional offices in San Francisco, Paris,
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