Heavy Gear II

Christmas

If you play a netgame around Christmas, the gears will be wearing Santa hats.

Development

Before the game was released, Activision actually had three different HUD designs for the cockpit displays: demo (from the demo version), graphical, and military. By popular vote, military was chosen for the game.

Intel

Heavy Gear II was selected as one of the showcase games for the "Intel Inside" advertising campaign that year.

Linux version

Heavy Gear II is Loki's first major port attempt that features 3D acceleration. As the original was Direct3D only, Loki has to port the game to OpenGL, as well as rewrite all the soundcard code to OSS/OpenAL standards, but the end result is virtually identical to the Windows version.

Multiplayer

The Linux version can actually play with the Windows version on the network. There are no difference between the clients once you're connected.

Awards

• GameStar (Germany)
  • Issue 03/2000 - Most Bugs in 1999