27-01-2003 01:53									#1
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Has anyone gotten MOO3 yet? If so, please tell us all about it.

	27-01-2003 02:51									#2
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Well, as it has only just gone gold, i wouldn't think many people would have the full game, as it still needs to be mass produced and distributed Maybe some people with "contacts" have a copy though Otherwise, check out the MOO3 preview articles for info.

	27-01-2003 03:16									#3
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quote: as it still needs to be mass produced and distributed

Heh, or leaked.

	27-01-2003 03:22									#4
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I'm trying to get a review copy ASAP. Will let you know.

	27-01-2003 14:20									#5
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Maybe I should start a review website this afternoon, then I could "try" to get a review cpoy too. I'm starting to salivate now, having been hungry so long, and now I can smell the cooking... The chef says "Dinner's ready" and now we have to "wait for the waiters" to bring us the main dish. Any chance of a starter ?

-Jam

	28-01-2003 04:53									#6
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Oh well, the EB Games website still had 1/25/03 as the date they expect to start shipping it to customers as of this last weekend. I was hoping that someone had already gotten their copy.

	28-01-2003 05:16									#7
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Spoke to Bill Fisher - will have a copy soon for review.

	28-01-2003 05:48									#8
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quote: Originally posted by JonahFalcon Spoke to Bill Fisher - will have a copy soon for review.

What's your site? And was there any definition of 'soon'?

	28-01-2003 06:27									#9
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By soon, I hope by the end of the week.

UGO.com is the site. (www.ugo.com)

My last review was SimCity 4:

http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/features/simcity4

	28-01-2003 07:45									#10
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Yes, I'm familiar with it. It's in my favorites for reviews. Great interview with Tim Curry, btw.

	28-01-2003 08:27									#11
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Somehow, I don't think it should take long to get to the stores. IIRC, the second data disk, manual and packaging were all done when they decided to take more time to debug multiplayer. If so, they only need to dupe one disk and get it into the packaging.

We can only hope...I want my MOO3 fix!

	28-01-2003 16:35									#12
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All the sites over here in Blighty (inc Amazon, who i pre-ordered it from about 10 years ago) are estimating the 7th of MARCH still...

... curses...

Jon...

	28-01-2003 23:24									#13
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Well if it is the 7th of March, it'll be just after i get back from the States Do yankee disks work over here? Never tried or found out before I hope to god its sooner though, maybe THIS WEEKEND PLEASE?

	29-01-2003 00:08									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Alex-C Do yankee disks work over here? Never tried or found out

I've used brit disks over here so I assume they do. You just have to get used to seeing z's in your words...

	29-01-2003 01:13									#15
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Yes, I play Championship Manager 01/02 on my American PC.

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quote: Well if it is the 7th of March, it'll be just after i get back from the States Do yankee disks work over here? Never tried or found out before I hope to god its sooner though, maybe THIS WEEKEND PLEASE?

One of the my local stores has this wierd habbit of carrying UK edition games. It can be quite irritating, certain EU rules apparently affect content.

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Er any reason why Chips&Bits has it listed for a 02/03 release?:

http://www.chipsbits.com/cgi-bin/or.../MASTO3.IR.html

	29-01-2003 04:58									#18
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[QUOTE] Originally posted by booje
Er any reason why Chips&Bits has it listed for a 02/03 release?:

Very interesting. Very interesting, indeed.

	29-01-2003 12:37									#19
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I imagine by 02/03 they meant month/year, not month/day

	29-01-2003 12:43									#20
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No they mean day/month so the second of March. (Starting this old one again... )

-Jam

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quote: Originally posted by Kc7mxo One of the my local stores has this wierd habbit of carrying UK edition games. It can be quite irritating, certain EU rules apparently affect content.

The EU has a thousand rules affecting anything and everything. Something written for the "EU" will have lots of cuts because of all the different countries rules plus the EU bureaucratic blizzard on top.

	29-01-2003 19:06									#22
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quote: Originally posted by War of Art No they mean day/month so the second of March. (Starting this old one again... ) -Jam

It is Feb, 2003. If you look, it has MoO2 listed as 11/96 and the MoO3 Prima Guide as 12/02 in the same list.

	29-01-2003 19:09									#23
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Actually the EU is much more liberal than the UK or USA in terms of content. Pornographic material is shown nightly on free TV in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Danemark, etc. Also graphic violence in video games is more tolerated. One big difference is that english UK versions of games never say "f*ck, sh*t or c*nt" where this may be allowed in the USA these words are a big deal in the UK.
In Germany we don't give a Scheisse

-Jam

	29-01-2003 19:14									#24
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Yeah, but in Germany games are not allowed to show human blood or dismemberment.

Or maybe that's Australia... hmm...

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quote: Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba Yeah, but in Germany games are not allowed to show human blood or dismemberment. Or maybe that's Australia... hmm...

The blood in one sequence of the intro movie is green in order that we did not have to create seperate movies for the german release.

	29-01-2003 23:57									#26
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Well, of course games are "allowed" to show red blood, gore and excessive violence in Germany, it's a free country after all. However, games that contain that stuff are often put on the "Index" by the BPS, meaning they must not be sold to minors and must not be advertised. Publishers often self-censor their games to prevent that procedure.

By the way, if the violence was subtle and in a non-interactive movie there's a good chance the BPS would have considered it harmless. But these guys are highly erratic, so it's smart to take the safe road.

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	30-01-2003 02:39									#27
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Green Blood..... cool.

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Green blood...

There's nothing so peaceful as a dead alien.

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Rantz: You're kidding, right? Not about the green blood, I could imagine that being in the intro, but about using it because of germanies stupid computer game violence policy.

Seems I will have to DL a bloodpatch in order to get red blood and the hidden 3d-action groundcombat mode (with lots of gore and carnage)

(Edit: typos)

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	30-01-2003 05:29									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Hierophant Rantz: You're kidding, right? Not about the green blood, I could imagine that being in the intro, but about using it because of germanys stupid computer game violency policy.

nope I'm serious as a heart attack. In the intro movie there's scene where a not insignificant amount of human blood sprays. After it was rendered out, compressed and ready to go, we were told that there was no way around it, since there was only one version of the game that in order to get on the german shelves, we had to turn the blood green.