Now this is really cool and will definitely put a smile on your face. 3D Realms’ WRATH: Aeon of Ruin is an old-school first person shooter that is powered by the Quake Engine and the team has just announced that the game will have 3DFX support.
YOU ASKED FOR IT, WE'RE BRINGING IT!
3DFX were so kind to send us a Voodoo 2 card with 12(!!) megs.
We're honored, proud and humbled to announce that @wrathgame will have 3DFX support!Say it with us: "So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous"#3dfx #voodoo2 #rtxoff #WRATH pic.twitter.com/Ok7OyvmcFu
— 3D Realms (@3DRealms) March 8, 2019
My guess is that WRATH: Aeon of Ruin will support the GLIDE API and will support all of the Voodoo graphics cards. As such, I don’t know whether 3D Realms will allow GLIDE wrappers to work with it (or will offer its own GLIDE wrapper for those owning different GPUs). In my opinion, it would make more sense to support DirectX and emulate the 3DFX visuals on all current hardware.
I still own my Monster 3D Voodoo 2 8MB GPU but I seriously don’t know if there is any way to make this graphics card work on a modern-day operating system like Windows 8 or Windows 10. And to be honest, if we exclude all the nostalgia factors here, this may seem a pretty useless feature to some. But man, just take a look at the spinning 3DFX logo. Just look at it.
Absolute Power with No Consequences! pic.twitter.com/ZtBWBDK6Oq
— 3D Realms (@3DRealms) March 8, 2019
IGN has also shared a new video for WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, showing 11 minutes of gameplay footage.
Enjoy!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Looks like a combination of Quake 2 + Blood + Duke3D, and I can’t wait for it to actually come out. Hopefully the game will be good for the whole entire game, and not burn out like every single throw back shooter that’s come out in recent times.
Every single one gets old half way into the game and this one should actually change that.
“duke 3d”
No. looks more like turok and darkwatch
I can see a Darkwatch resemblance, stylistically, but in terms of gameplay it’s all PC.
Speaking about 3Dfx isn’t even funny…………
*drools*
It scares me to think that the editor doesn’t notice this is a (sad) joke.
3DFX doesn’t exist as a company.
It was murdered by NVIDIA (purchased and left to die).
From that point on, I’m not believing anything that tweet says.
Thats not a lot of money, companies use much more, food, drinks cars, paid leaves all of that is a must in good company
I’d like to preorder it
It almost makes me wish I still had one of these…Almost.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/46d6d76bff1efc8a171b1962730907fa7bc8456745d4292e8ef3e1ae4262d632.jpg
This also came with a $50 rebate for Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Good times.
Understood. Just feeling nostalgic. If I still had such a GPU, though, I’d absolutely have to see how well it runs this game.
The hype is real, welcome 90’s!
That is nostaligiafaaaaaging taken to a whole new level.
I dont like how awful the weapon models look both the model quality and the textures but above all the geometry qualiy. If you ask me its better to look like amid evil than trying to emulate those old graphics than you become a old game.
The idea behind this game is dumb, why not use Unreal 4 to make it, it can still be small game but with modern special effects and even since its so small [graphically-wise] RTX that works in 4K/60 on 2070 or 2080 card
I was positively surprised by the skill. this is IGN we’re talking about here. they’re usually way worse.
I will say it again as I said b4 after watching the trailer few days back…Looks like a high-quality Quake mod, and practically that’s what it is!
Ofcourse, I am very excited for this! Hope the game gets more intense, with faster/more challeenging enemies, because right now we’ve only seen enemies that are slow…