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Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - CPU performance review

PCGH tested processors in Assault on Dark Athena. According to their benchmarks the game needs far more GPU power than a fast CPU.

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villevalorox6274d ago

Please tell me what you guys thought of this game? I played the demo and I thought it sucked bad. And i keep hearing people say the demo was amazing and stuff. Am I missing something? Did you guys like it?

Ju6274d ago

It's, aeh, different. Ridick's story kept me interested. I like the movies a lot. It transforms the movie pretty well, IMO. But because of that, I think it does not play like a regular shooter. You die fast, but after getting used to the weapons and actually using sneaking and cover (you don't need to kill them all, just try to get by unnoticed) it felt great. And I was surprised that this game runs solid 1080p with full AA (compare that to the second Vin Diesel demo that came out at the same time, Wheelman...but its corridor with shiny surfaces vs. open world).

kevnb6273d ago

but Im atleast going to try the game, if nothing else the remake of the first game that's included will be awesome.

SL1M DADDY6273d ago

They lost a sale with me. The Demo looked like arse and was pretty sad if you ask me.

Extreme_Coolcat6274d ago

Haven't played the demo, but some of my colleagues really liked it.

REALgamer6274d ago

But the original was one of my favourite games of the previous generation.

However, this had better be a pretty big graphical upgrade - looking at the computer they used even with the best CPU (Core i7 940) they got average 82fps with:

GPU: 285GTX (very high-end)
RAM: 6gb DDR3 1066mhz

That's the sort of performance you'd expect with a very graphically intensive game considering it's on a very high-end system. As I said I haven't played the demo so now I'm expecting something very pretty at least from the PC version.

riksweeney6274d ago

I played the demo for about 10 minutes before I switched it off and deleted it. The bit that made me stop played was when Riddick unlocks the door at the start and the alarms go off.

Two enemies ran through the door straight into me. No amount of slashing them did any damage and the seemed not to notice me and simply walked around for about a minute. I eventually just put the controller down and watched them walking back and forth right in front of me. Finally I was spotted and I quit.

DeadlyFire6274d ago

GPU is always more important than CPU. CPU could be 10 years old and GPU will be doing the grunting on graphics. CPU does minimal work with gaming now. It needs to be improved quite a bit. GPUs have always been top of what makes a game fast. There are plans to combine the two though in the works.

That is why companies are moving towards GP-GPUs(General Processing- Graphics Processing Unit)*Maybe other way around don't know. Either way they are moving to them at some point in the future. Intel(Larrabee), AMD(Fusion), and NVIDIA(CUDA) all have new designs based on it though.

kevnb6273d ago

a really slow cpu will bottleneck a gpu.

TheIneffableBob6273d ago

It really depends on the game and how it was designed. The latest Source-engine games, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead, tend to be CPU-limited. It's due in part to a new rendering process used to create the shapes of the models and to animate the faces, helping create a defined silhouette and give the games more character. I forgot the name of it (I read about it on a blog linked on Beyond3D), but it's supposedly a CPU-intensive process.

CoNn3rB1783d ago

Man the Mad Max game was really underrated when it came out

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GameEnthus Podcast ep393: Whopper of a Whopper or Canvas Bags or NPCs not both -

This week Mike (@AssaultSuit) , Tiny (@Tiny415) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) talk about: Nats, luxury tax, Joker, Maleficent Mistress of Evil, Zombieland Double Tap, Bloodshot trailer, Turok, ShadowMan, Armorines, Harbinger, Drake of the 99 Dragons, Spawn, Jamie Foxx, Groot, Glass, Split, Unbreakable, Terminator, Watchmen, Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Star Wars The Rise of the Skywalkers, Gears5, Link’s Awakening, Lonely Mountains: Downhill, The Ninja Saviors, The Bradwell Conspiracy, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, Stela, Where the Bees make Honey, Azul, Monaco, Asura’s Wrath, Kine, Felix the Reaper, Manifold Garden, Monkey King Hero is Back, Minotaur Arcade Vol.1, Noch Mal!, Onirim, Devil’s Deck, Barnes and Noble,Little Town Hero, Castle Crashers, Return of the Obra Dinn, Dishonored 2, Grand Theft Auto 3, Fallout 76, Neve Campbell, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Incogmeato, Impossible Meat and more.

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Top 10 Most Underrated Stealth Video Games

FunkyVideoGames takes a look at the top 10 most underrated stealth video games of all time!

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miyamoto3714d ago

Tenchu: SA on PSOne comes to mind.
MGS is great but Tenchu is ops it in my book.

Odoylerules0003713d ago

Tenchu! NICE! Wow, I haven't seen anyone mention Tenchu in such a long time. Really, they're my favorite stealth games from back in the day. Ayame or Rikimaru?

miyamoto3713d ago (Edited 3713d ago )

That's a toughie

but seriously

It's either between Proto-Rikimaru
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

or Manji Cult
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Nothing beats the original that won Shuhei Yoshida's heart.

Odoylerules0003713d ago

@miyamoto Okay, my mind is officially blown. First, at how gutter the first Tenchu test footage is(that jump sound effect..), and second...Wow! I had no idea that was motion capture. I immediately knew what I was looking at when he started moving, though. Incredible. Thanks a lot for showing me those, I had no idea those videos existed.

Fist4achin3713d ago

What about the one that was so stealthy, no one played it at all because nobody knew it was there?!

I'm actually having some fun with Shadows of Mordor and sneaking around the orcs and uruks