Path of Neo design doc

RainKingX

flecky wrote:

Anyone found any other download links for this yet?

Err..it's confidential info. so I doubt you'll see it any time soon.

**MxOElliMann**

Why the heck would stuff like that be confidential?

**Harpalos-mxo** · 05/24/2007 10:49:50

Joakim wrote:

Why the heck would stuff like that be confidential?

Because it is a business document. R&D work such as this one, yes, even for a game, isn't public domain unless the developpers decide to allow it. Companies usually don't like having their processes known by the public.

**flecky**

RainKingX wrote:

flecky wrote:
Anyone found any other download links for this yet?

Err..it's confidential info. so I doubt you'll see it any time soon.

Someone must have saved a copy of it tho.............surely??

**MxOElliMann**

Harpalos-mxo wrote:

Joakim wrote:
Why the heck would stuff like that be confidential

Because it is a business document. R&D work such as this one, yes, even for a game, isn't public domain unless the developpers decide to allow it. Companies usually don't like having their processes known by the public.

I kinda thought that since they're way done with the game already it wouldn't matter. But of course, they wouldn't like to have their processes known by the public. So i get your point.

**Othinn1**

Joakim wrote:

Harpalos-mxo wrote:
Joakim wrote:
Why the heck would stuff like that be confidential

Because it is a business document. R&D work such as this one, yes, even for a game, isn't public domain unless the developpers decide to allow it. Companies usually don't like having their processes known by the public.

I kinda thought that since they're way done with the game already it wouldn't matter. But of course, they wouldn't like to have their processes known by the public. So i get your point.

Though as I mentioned earlier in this post, there are a few bits from the document that are available to the public in the Path of Neo strategy guide. I don't have the book, but I flipped through it some time ago. I recognized some of the document quotes earlier in this thread from that book. I'm just pointing that out in case anyone was interested.

**MxOElliMann**

So much for it to be secret.

IORIO

PoN was a great game I wish some of the game stuff was in the movies but oh well +1 for the find I still love playing that game and mastering the one!

**PS10N** · 08/14/2007 23:49:31

I thoroughly enjoyed PoN and still load it up occasionally for a few levels of true Matrix-style combat. Those who panned the game were mostly without sufficient hardware to run it well at any decent level of detail and resolution. Enter The Matrix has over 5000 moves in the combat move tree, yet most who played it never bothered with more than the basic fighting and shooting. You get out of a game what you put in to a game (yes, even MxO you posers.) PoN has many times the number of combinations possible and I've loved teasing every last one of them out of the engine. The targeting system is cake on the PC, hitting 2, 3, 4, 5 or even 6 opponents in one combo is so satisfying, especially when Smith says, "You can't fight us all, Mr. Anderson" and then they all get owned.

"Mr. Anterson"

"Mr. Anterson"

Yes, it's very easy to change any of the game's models to any of the other models, which makes flying around the city as the Leprechaun (see the Zion Archive in PoN) or fighting the Burly Brawl as an APU hilarious fun, as was changing the dojo scene so that Morpheus was fighting himself. Back in Enter the Matrix we would play as the pigeon model - there is nothing funnier than a pigeon going Matrix-style on a guard, throwing him across the room and then whipping out a shotgun to finish him off. "That's one pissed-off pigeon!"

The W. brothers' cut scene in the middle of the final fight of PoN is also very entertaining. Isn't it always funny when people make fun of themselves and their fans?