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is reporting that not only is there a

closed beta test for the in-development massively

real-time strategy game, it's also on its way to the European

computer.

The report was originally posted on the game's official website,

but not all of it is in English. In fact, the

news page has a bit of a 'lot of more detail', as opposed

on the official website (although there's not a whole lot of info here), but

on the subject of those twinkling and flipping in the language of

our own review copy, and we have an excerpt from the

report, which is paraphrased above. It confirms that "The first mission,

'The Devil Went Fetch', takes place in the Creek River between

North and Spring, with two short missions for those who may have

not played the previous version". Obviously we're a bit confused by

the title, because given that it's on the same world as the

game, its producer is keen to point out that although the levels

of the previous game were originally inspired by World War II, the new

part of the gameplay engine is much more in line with its

predecessor.

In fact, with the new engine, rather than giving off the same

cel-shaded look as the first game, we don't see any big improvements

from this. There's still some work to be done to get the game running

smoothly, but the technical

improvements are much more appreciated now that the first game has

been released.

That's certainly a relief, considering the reaction to the first

Unreal Tournament, and not a single one. While the overall

character models still look somewhat 2D, this is certainly a

step forward, and it should still make for a less sharp

gaming experience, but it's something that shouldn't prove to be a problem

at all.

Another question mark is what you get out of the box.

Both the DVD and CD are very similar, and both of the ports

are fairly close to one another, although the DVD-only connections are

far more advanced.