One of my all-time favourite games, Speedball, is being reborn as Speedball Arena. Following the "leaking" of the Speedball Arena site, the Bitmap Brothers made an official announcement:

The aim of Speedball Arena is to create a fully-fledged online sport, with a simple to pick up and hard to master game dynamic that, along with our innovative training and player class system will give players an almost infinite learning curve. As with any 'sport' there will be leagues and tournaments, ranking systems, spectating and even a transfer market. Imagine downloading a 'highlights' program every evening to catch up on what you have missed or swapping highlights and replays with clan members.

Blue's made reference to it using the Unreal engine, but I haven't found anything definite to confirm that. Might have to dust off my old Speedball 2 box for some nostalgia action.

SWWWEEEEEET

Speedball goodness

Speedball Arena... maybe that is implying it is using Quake 3: arena engine?
maybe.. hopefully its a sweet engine

Hopefully it\'s not using unreal.

Bitmap bros rocked. Their graphics were always a step above the rest of the industry. Best soundtracks in games too - anyone remember Xenon 2?

hell yeh! I played that all the time, except for some reason my 2nd disk was corrupt, so I could only ever get halfway through :(

Was that the same Speedball I played on the Amiga 500? If so, that game rocked! I -owned- that game :>

Yeah, Xennon 2 was cool too.


Crunch

with a name like speedball arena it sounds like a q3 mod

omfg!!!

xenon2!!!!!

That game f***ING rocked...

ah the days :)

and who could forget how mad the sound effects and music that sounded on PC speeker too....

props