I am going to try and wake everybody up with this message. We have a little rumor of JJ3 going around, although there hasn't been anything new recently that I know of. We need JJ3 to be a success for the future of Jazz to exist. But we still all think JJ3 should "keep the magic" of Jazz 1 and 2. Well, there are a few things that we need to "get real" about.

There is NO future in sidescrollers. That is a dead genre, especially on the PC. Jazz Jackrabbit 3 has got to be 3-dimensional. No company is going to make money with an old game in an old format. The only people who will actually buy the game is us in these forums if it is not 3-D, and there are what, 300 of us? Two hundred? JJ3 must attract new customers and the only way to do that is 3-D. It does make it harder to design levels, but that means no crap levels from lazy designers, because only people who want to put in time and effort will be able to complete a level.

Futhermore, it is going to be a shooter. People don't buy chess video games, and Jazz Jackrabbit has never been anything but a shooter. We can't change that. Shooters make money. All of the money. We say Unreal killed Jazz Jackrabbit. The only way to revive Jazz is to make it current, and currently, the popular games are those games. "If you can't beat em, join em." Of course, it would have to have little blood and gore, because Jazz is a children's game. You have green bunnies hopping around eating carrots. Not many adults are going to buy that, so it has to appeal to kids.

I had my first dose of first-person shooter a week ago in Time Splitter 2. I love it. So does everybody else. Now I'm not saying that Jazz has to be first-person, but I am suggesting it. It would be great if we could have "camera" options so players would be allowed to decide in-game where they want to see the action from, and nothing like Mario 64 where you can't move in first person and just look around, it must be possible to move in first person. I'm not sure if many other games let you switch from first person to third and vice versa, so we might have a bit of an edge there.

Jazz 3 must be released on the console. No doubt about it. Console gaming is way more popular than PC gaming. But it also must be released on the PC. It should be on GameCube, Play Station 2, and X-Box, but at least PS2, because it is the most common of the three, and I'm not just saying that because I have PS2, I have GCN and N64 and that's all.

We have to have console Internet capabilities, too, for PS2 and X-Box, and GameCube, if Nintendo decides to release it soon enough. PC gamers should have an advantage, because the PC should be the only one with the level editor. That way, Epic or whoever can have the PC price higher and say that consoles don't have enough disc space to hold JCS. The console game should also be able to connect to the game's official website to download levels and play them there, of course, so that it would sell.