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Valve Software no longer felt like the arcade-like single-player approach was the right direction for the title and a decision was made to change the narrative portion of the game into a more traditional linear shooter. Shortly after Game Developers Conference, a major change in direction occurred in the development of the game. Randy Pitchford presenting the game at Game Developers Conference Various gaming media were present at the event and GameSpot even shot a video interview with Randy Pitchford at GDC. At this event, the major focus was showcasing the capabilities of the bot AI. The first major media event that the game appeared at in North America was the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in March 2002.
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As an aftermath of Pitchford's and Martel's visit to Germany, other local gaming magazines, including PC Action and GameStar, would also release video coverage of the game. PC Games would go on to release the first ever video footage of the game and a quite extensive preview based on this early build. During the last days of their trip in Europe, they would visit the offices of the German PC Games magazine, providing them an early preview build of the game. Randy Pitchford and Brian Martel with PC Games editor in Germanyįollowing the press event in France, Pitchford and Martel visited the offices of Vivendi Universal in Germany, where they would house previews of the game for several German gaming media. In Europe, the game would appear at its first major media event, the Vivendi Universal Games Faire held on February 19 in Paris, France.
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In mid-February, Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford and vice president Brian Martel visited Europe in order to promote the game. A factor that may also have contributed to this was the expanded design ambitions of the game, which included raising the number of objectives per map to 12. This delay was accounted to wanting to make the AI act as realistically as possible. On Februit was announced that the release of the game would be delayed until Q2 2002.
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This meant that many of the map designers recruited from the community had finished their contribution to the project by this stage and left the development team. Most of the maps were finished by this time with only minor polishing work left to do. Now the amount of maps had been locked down to 25, divided into six campaigns. In December, the game was stated to be feature complete. The amount of maps was specified to be between 20 and 30, divided into five different campaigns. īy November 2001, the game was rapidly approaching alpha stages. Other new content included 2 new factions, 8 to 10 new pieces of equipment, including new weapons, and high definition models. The design at this point included over 16 maps divided into four campaigns with around 10 objectives per map. Each map had objectives with cash rewards, and earned cash could be used for upgrading squad members and purchasing new equipment.
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The single-player mode of the game had an arcade-like approach, inspired by console games such as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Initially, the game was slated for a Q1 2002 release. Gearbox Software's version of the game was first unveiled to the public in late August 2001. Another community acquirement was Markus Klinge, notable for creating the original Podbot, who was hired to work on an official bot for the game. In addition, several community texture artists, such as as Mike "MikeZilla" Neumann, were also recruited. The level designing department at Gearbox was strengthened in June by the recruitment of several prominent community designers, including David Johnston, Christopher Auty and Alexander Manilov. To assist in the creation of new content, several well-known designers and modders were recruited from the community. Ĭondition Zero development team meeting, 2001 Initially, development was very focused on simply creating more content, particularly maps, for the game. Previous work done by Rogue Entertainment was mostly scrapped and Gearbox essentially started development from scratch. Gearbox and Valve quickly reached an agreement whereby further primary development of Condition Zero would be handled by Gearbox.
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Thus, Gearbox Software decided to approach Valve about working on Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. However, in May 2001 Gearbox was just about to finish development on Half-Life: Blue Shift and wrap up work on the Playstation 2 port of Half-Life, meaning that the bandwidth needed to manage such a project was finally becoming available. Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software, had been talking about the possibility of working on a Counter-Strike related project with Valve Software for quite a while, but other commitments had kept Gearbox from working on such a project.