Cellfactor's free to download, though nerfed for most

[Hawq]

Anyone remember the PhysX heavy game Cellfactor well its free to download now

Jeremy Stieglitz, president of Artificial Studios added, “CellFactor: Revolution is a new kind of competitive first person shooter, which emphasizes massive physical interactivity to take down your opponents. I’m very excited that gamers can now experience this intense action whether it’s at a LAN party, fighting AI bots or designing new environments with the modding tools.”

CellFactor: Revolution caters to players with and without the AGEIA PhysX card. The game automatically detects systems with a PhysX card, offering players the option to progress through a single-player campaign mode that includes three “extreme PhysX” levels. PhysX users can also challenge humans and AI-enemies in four LAN-based multiplayer modes. The multiplayer skirmish game types support up to eight humans and 10 artificial intelligence controlled enemies, either in a PhysX hardware only, or software only mode. Gamers without a PhysX processor can play two levels in skirmish modes or choose to install the processor to enable the full game experience.

“The sheer entertainment value of PhysX in CellFactor: Revolution cannot be overstated,” said Manju Hegde, CEO of AGEIA Technologies, Inc. “We’re honored to work with cutting-edge development teams who have used PhysX technology as the backbone for this fun and original experience, now available for the masses.”

Built on flexible code architecture, CellFactor: Revolution will ship with modding tools. Gamers can use these tools to build new game settings and scenarios.

So for those without the AGEIA PhysX card, read almost every pc owner in the world, its perhaps not so great, it truly is an example of something that needs to be bundled with hardware. More bits from the company quoted here the games site may have it on as well but I cant be arsed waiting for it to fire up, oh by the way the dl is 859.59MB

[melancholy]

What the hell is a PhysX card?

[Nyarlathotep]

A Physics co-processor card - ie a card specifically designed to handle physics calculations in the same way a graphics card is specifically designed to handle image manipulation.

There must be something in it, ATI and nVidia have both started adding physics coprocessors to their top-end graphics cards. Eurogamer ran an interesting piece about it earlier today.