Although the graphics & gameplay are very good (love the terrain deformation), the screen tearing is atrocious. Think I'll wait and see if the final product is cleaned up before I add it to my collection. I already know MGO plays silky smooth from the beta.
but is not yet active - 1st impressions - digizine is actually well done. Contains a contents section to let you look at whatever you want. Afro Samurai looks really good. Cyber advertising is done in a tasteful way (not alot of spam before selected content plays). Not as much info as I thought it would be, but for a 1st crack, it's decent. Also contains a SOCOM theme (no sound effects sadly).
I remember using it clear back on the N64 in a crappy little game from KOEI called Winback. Same now basically as it was then. Continue arguing all ya want over HAZE or Quake Wars. Just wanted to clear up the Cover System confusion - and lack of recognition to KOEI, you know the ones who make Dynasty Warriors lol.
Socom Confrontation beta invitation? Oh yeah, that's easily worth $2.99
So transparent. EGM taking a stand against censorship is one thing. How did you lump 2 other semi-negative reviews w/ them? Ohhh, nevermind, I answered my own question. Anyway, I thought 8-8.5 were actually good scores. 360 fans love to remind us of that when it comes to NG2.
Just once I'd like to see Comcast, Time Warner, or AT&T's president give an interview pertaining to DD. Oh, that's right, we wont. Just another idiot blogger fantasizing about an industry he has no knowledge of, or ever will. It'll take the company I work for 2 years to replace 1,200 miles of 30 year old cable trunklines w/ fiber. Thank God I'm not rewiring 70 story skyscrapers. Know this though, DD is gradually gathering steam (pun intended) but wont be completely viable for another deca...
That will probably sell about 1000 copies in the US/EU but could eclispe the million mark in Japan. You have to give ANY simulator in the Asian market a puncher's chance (who woulda thought a homo-erotic high school dating simulator would sell that many copies!).
more like 5.9 to you ppl? We all know WHY GTA4 got a 10. The early reviews helped perpetuate 9 million sales and fend off one of the worst, most evil, greedy corporations in the industry. In this context, I don't mind over the over-inflated score. And in a sense, professional journalism sided w/ David (lol goin biblical). Although more like a 8 to ME, GTA4 was still worth my coin. MGS4 will average 97-98% on metacritic so who cares?
Who cares? This might've been good news for 360 fans 2-3 years ago, but <newsflash> G4 is beyond terrible now. 15 hrs of Ninja Warrior, morning infomercials, the most UNfunny animated show ever in Code Monkeys (yes, it might be even worse than Beavis N Butthead), and Xplay has sucked for awhile now (even though I still like Morgan's hate-filled tirades). Its only saving grace AOTS, I DVR every night and watch the following day. If it wasn't for Kevin, I wouldn't even watch it. Well mayb...
Too bad it's gimped by the Core Unit. Last gen, Xbox was clearly more powerful than the PS2 yet it was limited by the PS2's gigantic fanbase. How the irony the 360 is being held back not by a Wii or a PS3 but by their own inferior SKU, the Core, and its lack of a HDD.
how on God's green Earth did EA think replacing Madden for Chris Collinsworth was ANY better? First HBO, then NBC, and now Madden. The hell w/ Tony Robbins, I need to email ole Chrissy and find how he keeps a paycheck!
"You can walk through plants w/o them responding. That's just a no-no in this day and age."
Umm, no. I just finished Uncharted (on crushing difficulty for the points and trophies) and I walked through each and every plant in it. No deformation, no swaying, just static. Is UDF garbage too? There was more interaction w/ the plant life in Ratchet and Clank LOL. I'm playing R&C:TOD right now (catching up w/ old games before MGS4). Methinks Crysis skewed your senses t...
Considering the internet circumvents this "review embargo". I'm having a hard time wondering how Rob Yescombe still receives a paycheck from FR. The absolute worst script and voice acting ever in a military video game. Maybe he should apply to KOEI.
4 player co-op was featured in Rainbow6 Vegas, both co-op story and co-op terr hunt. Sadly, they removed the 4 player (in favor of 2 player) for the story mode in the sequel.
The gameplay completely trumps COD4's arcade formula. When someone gets 15 kills in Socom, it's usually skill w/ a gun. I can get get 15 kills sometimes in COD4 w/ one hand. Shoot 1 person, grenade few others, call in air strikes/chopper and voila - 15 kill streak. AND completely noobish. Then, even after you actually win the contest, an AMerican Idol wannabe sings about his "vaunted" kill streak in the lobby and how he got another 5 kills from "last man" and "martyr...
This isn't the ESPN boards, you don't excel at it, and we all know GRAW copied the TPS formula FROM socom. It was another run of the mill FPS before and the devs realised a lack of TPS on next gen consoles (unless you think 4vs4 is next gen). But I digress.
There are so many things wrong w/ GRAW - like momentum when running and aiming (cool concept but poorly implemented), EVERY gun sounds the same, all ranged gunfire and no CQB combat (I guess Ubi wants you to buy R6V so you ...
I went yesterday to preorder several upcoming titles and interestingly enough there is no pre-order SKU for Confrontation. And although IGN recently featured a story on it, they removed an actual date and simply list September now. GameStop's database features a release date for every one of Sony's known 1st party titles in development (LBP 10/07, MotorstormPR 10/28, RFOM2 11/04, KZ2 2/24/09, and GOW 3/2/09) but no mention of Socom. A rather odd omission for one of Sony's flagship online ti...
That's your answer to lagging sales? Tell me Einstein, how well did the HD-DVD add-on sell? The 720 is rumored to drop in just 2 years - and you think MS needs ANOTHER model in between? Devs always have to factor the lowest common denominater when making a game for MS - which is the core model. So I ask you again - what the hell is the point? Do you want to watch movies or play games? Remember the MS mantra now.
BTW, I call it lagging sales because according to NPD numbers, si...
That's funny since everyone railed HAZE and its 576p. Just face it. The graphics look muddy whenever anything sub HD is upscaled. COD4 in 600p upscaled to 720 can not come close to UT3 (720p). Now upscale UT3 to 1080p and it further illustrates the difference of games rendered in native HD resolutions. But if you think more colors make a game less "muddy" and better graphically, to each his own I say.
And yes, I like all 4 games (UT3,COD4,NG2,& NGS)