...as it spits in the face of the original, and awesome, Syndicate games, which were anything but a dumbed down rail-shooter.

Thanks for the info.

... What exactly does this have to do with the older pentium architechtures?

Don't know if people are STILL using it, but I got hold of a piece of a Milennium Hoffman blotter in 1999 or 2000 at least, which gave me a definately interesting experience. Didn't try to make any spider webs, though.. :)

It also says this in tfa:

"I also asked Raibert if they could eventually use PETMAN or PETMAN-related technologies in other projects. In other words, are we going to see PETMAN used in applications other than the chemical suit tests? "You bet," he says. "There are all sorts of things robots like PETMAN could be used for. Any place that has been designed for human access, mobility, or manipulation skills. Places like the Fukushima reactors could be accessed by PETMAN-like robots (or AlphaDogs), without requiring any human exposure to hazardous materials. Perhaps firefighting inside of buildings or facilities designed for human access, like on board ships designed for human crews." This, of course, will mean another big challenge for his team: Transforming the humanoid from a tethered system into a free standing, self-contained robot. Boston Dynamics, however, has already demonstrated its ability to transition to tether-less machines with its BigDog project."

They managed to create a suitable internal powerplant for BigDog, one of their other robots, all the way back in 2008, while still having it tethered inn other, later videos of testing inside, so who know, maybe they have a powerplant designed for Petman too, and just prefere to have it stable enough first, before they progress to untethered testing? Or maybe the sound of the powerplant, resembling a swarm of bees, is something that would drive them crazy during testing inside, and they therefore prefers the tethered design? :) Here's a video of the untethered Bigdog, from the same company: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

Who says it hasn't?

Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK1g_5x2jBU

Lucky you... I have the same first and last name as a famous tripple-murderer. Various "interesting" experiences have thought me to use my middle-name when introducing myself to new people...