Man, tell me about it. I fucking hate the Fall because we get about 3-4 months where 100+ awesome titles released at the same time, to be followed by 9 months of absolutely fucking nothing.
The game industry fucks me right off in that regard.
Played it for a while last night, mainly to get into gameplay and see how my system handled the graphics. Thankfully it runs great with everything set to max at 1920x1200 resolution as long as I don't turn on AA at all. Even at 2x AA it pukes and runs like ass. This is the same system that runs Crysis like pure piss so I was happy to see it handling FarCry2 at max with ease, minus any AA.
During install it warned that my videocard drivers were out of date which was nice because I thought I had the latest Nvidia drivers but there was an October 15th release that I missed.
The intro is very long but once I got past that and got outside, the environments and plants and trees looked great. Nothing mind blowing, but still pleasing on the eyes. It was about then I went to bed so we'll see how it goes later on.
I got this for the PS3 last night. So far I got passed to Tutorial, which takes a while 1 hour to 2 hours. The graphics are good, I cant complain about much. Maybe the texture of the plants is not the greatest but I don't care the environment as a whole looks great. The game play reminded me of Far Cry, in the sense that you come to an area and you don't know where you are getting shot from because enemies go for cover behind trees and stuff like that. I really like this type of gameplay because it really cracks up the pressure and you have to be ready for enemies from any direction.
One set back is the control of the character and the vehicles. The layout is identical to COD 4 which is ok. But the aiming and all that was not very precise when I started playing, I was able to fix this problem by playing around with the sensitivity in the options, so it is no longer a problem. Also the vehicle control is not pressure sensitive, so it seems that you are either flooring it or not giving any gas at all, maybe it is this way because gas and break are currently set to R1 & L1, and those buttons may not be pressure sensitive so I need to play around with the different control schemes (which there are plenty).
So over all I enjoyed the first 2 hours and now its time for the real game to begin.
Oct-23-2008 18:18
KiNeTiC ENeRgY
t3cHn0_43ad
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Boca Raton
quote:
Originally posted by RJT
Man, tell me about it. I fucking hate the Fall because we get about 3-4 months where 100+ awesome titles released at the same time, to be followed by 9 months of absolutely fucking nothing.
The game industry fucks me right off in that regard.
It's all about releasing at the right time for the Christmas/Holiday season. Speaking of which, this year will be a kick ass year for great deals on electronics of all sorts...especially HDTV's. If u don't have one, and are ready to get one, u will get the best deal. Circuit City is on the brink of shutting down permanently, and they are practically giving shit away. Scrape up any cash u can and buy buy buy!
Oct-23-2008 20:02
Magnus
I'm getting old
Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
Ok having played this a bit now I'm quite disappointed. This game has a lot of what I feel are annoying aspects. Things like your weapon degrades or jams so you have to keep it in good condition, you get tired and have to sleep. Who gives a shit about these things. I just want to blast through the jungle and have a good time without having to worry about my gun jamming and getting a good nights rest! WTF? Furthermore, the voice acting is the worst I have ever witnessed in a game. The actors mumble and runs words together. Its does not sound natural at all. The graphics are ok but some corners were cut and its obvious. Just look at your character's arm when he is holding a rifle. Its like a long straight slab of arm and skin and does not look even remotely normal.
Originally posted by Magnus
Ok having played this a bit now I'm quite disappointed. This game has a lot of what I feel are annoying aspects. Things like your weapon degrades or jams so you have to keep it in good condition, you get tired and have to sleep. Who gives a shit about these things. I just want to blast through the jungle and have a good time without having to worry about my gun jamming and getting a good nights rest! WTF? Furthermore, the voice acting is the worst I have ever witnessed in a game. The actors mumble and runs words together. Its does not sound natural at all. The graphics are ok but some corners were cut and its obvious. Just look at your character's arm when he is holding a rifle. Its like a long straight slab of arm and skin and does not look even remotely normal.
What do you all think?
I agree with all of the above. Bought it this last weekend, played through about 6-8 hours of it, traded it back in for full credit for something else down the line.
