Why no trailer after E3 ? answered

Posted Saturday, May 26, 2001 by xcal
Just received this email from Greg Goodrich explaining why there is not an official E3 trailer yet from Wolfy

E3 Wolfenstein Trailer

I've been reading quite a bit lately (on a number of different forums) that
a lot of people are waiting to see the "Return To Castle Wolfenstein" E3
trailer. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this is going to happen anytime
soon. Let me explain.

When the trailer was originally cut for the show we used a music track
called "Bishop's Countdown" from the movie "Aliens". We were told at the
time that the rights to the music had been secured through Fox (owner of the
"Aliens" property and the parent company of Fox Interactive). And they were.
Activision had indeed paid a large sum of money for the rights and we were
free and clear to make our trailer.

We fully expected to make it available via download after the show (as
everyone else has recently done) but unfortunately this was not to be the
case. Just hours before the start of E3 our fine friends from Fox
Interactive were granted a special request to preview the trailer.
Immediately following the private showing they decided it wasn't in their
best interest to allow us to use the music or make it available for
download. It was (and still is) the belief of Fox Interactive that by
allowing us to do so would cause "confusion" in the marketplace between
"Return To Castle Wolfenstein" and "Aliens vs. Predator 2". I'll leave it
up to you to decide.

Hopefully, those of you who went to E3 enjoyed the trailer. It captured the
essence of what "Wolfenstein" is shaping up to be and was edited with 100%
game play footage from the current build of the game. Unfortunately, unless
someone captured it via camcorder (from one of the monitors) and makes it
available on their own accord, it will most likely never be shown again.

Sincerely,

Greg Goodrich
Executive Producer
Gray Matter Studios, Inc.

E3 Movie Clip

Posted Monday, May 21, 2001 by xcal
First movie clip to surface from E3 can be found here , pretty impressive stuff really :) get to see a few of the weapons on show and a few clips of the level design and nme AI .

E3 Screenshots

Posted Monday, May 21, 2001 by xcal
These are the 10 new released screenshots from the Activision press pack, released at E3, along with the new official wolfy website :).
there is 1 or 2 extra shots floating around, most of the links can be found in the forums

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Official RTCW site released

Posted Friday, May 18, 2001 by xcal
Well news from E3 is that activision has launched the official site you can find it here
Theres quite alot of new screenshots to be found here too and a bit of background info setting the scene.

English PC gamer screenies

Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2001 by xcal
a few new screenshots taken from the UK pc gamer can be found here

Not long till E3

Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2001 by xcal
Ok not long to go now till E3 starts, so keep your eyes open for wolfy news, this coming thursday and friday will be a BIG day :)

you can find the official site here and the E3 daily site here

Big Pictures added

Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 by xcal
all screenshots now have there full size counterparts added to the right hand nav bar, 11 screens in total all submitted on May 10th

New Screenshots

Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2001 by xcal
Here are some new screenshots, alot of them are similar to those featured in PC gamer but there are a few new ones too, enjoy :)

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Some new screenshots

Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2001 by xcal
Ok, here are some of the new screenshots, they are 2 more new shots that you will find at the links previously posted, so i urge you to look there as well

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PC Gamer feature

Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2001 by xcal
Well a few of you may have noticed that Pc Gamer has run a small feature on RTCW this month in the magazine, there are numerous new screenshots and quite an indepth description of the game.

Some kind soul has done the honours and scanned the magazine article so you can read it here :)

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