I just recently (May 2008) bought a Retail Disc
copy of Shadowgrounds PC (Windows).
So far I am enjoying the game ,
I was disapointed that it didn’t have LAN coop.

I will look into the expansion if I can source
the retail disc boxed copy for AU$10-$20.

May I suggest that the new games support :

- Two to 4 keyboards/mouse with same PC screen coop mode

- LAN MULTI PLAYER Network coop mode (4 to 16 players)

- Opengl instead of DirectX if possible
(using opengl allows making Linux/Mac editions easier)

- Linux , Mac and Windows editions of the game

- If supporting online mode then please release
an seperate SADS program (stand alone dedicated server)

- If supporting online mode please have a working server
browser that can limit viewing games by PING (eg 0 to 50,
51 to 150 )

- If supporting a free SADS program please allow for
hosting a game with the ability to block high ping players
(eg if ping is higher then 100 they cant join)
Having a free sads helps with clan gamers ,
hosting games at lan parties and
for ISP’s that host online low ping game servers.

It will be interesting what gene of game the new
3 ip’s will be .

Personaly the PC still has some genes that need to get
addressed such as:

Fighting games (eg Tekken type ones) on Win/Mac/Linux
with LAN Multiplayer coop and same screen gaming

An aracade fun racing game (SP/SP+same screen/coop/LAN)
(Flatout 2 & LA Street Racer is a great fun game that in my view beats NFS)

An fun proper tatical FPS game that does not support
joystick or joypad (no joypad leads to better gameplay)
with (SP/SP+same screen using Multi k&m coop/coop LAN)
Theirs a market in the proper tatical FPS gene
since R6 and GR series have gone down the tube
since they ported it to console and reduced gameplay
to sell out to the casual gamer crowd.