Mirror's Edge looks so good because all the environments are pre-rendered really well, with bounce lighting and shadows baked into the textures.
The art style is great, I love the colors and the overall mood of Mirror's Edge.
Shoot up a bar in Mafia 2 on a PS3, then do the same thing on a PC with Apex set to High.
I don't know, this doesn't really wow me. It's barely better than Crysis. Especially considering that the benchmark contains no AI, physics or a huge environment.
Countless benchmarks and articles have confirmed that DX11 and tesselation performance of Fermi outclasses the 5000 series. There's not much arguing this.
I'm not sure why anybody would disagree. Exclusive games are awful. Who wants to put up with buying every gaming platform there is?
I liked the story of Alan Wake, but the gameplay got insanely boring.
I would have much preferred to spend more time in the town, talking to people and walking around. The Twin Peaks vibe was awesome.
But unfortunately, all the town stuff is extremely short. 5 minutes of day time are followed by 2 hours of running through the forest.
Microsoft are investing half a billion dollars into marketing, and if the product doesn't deliver, there is no way a review embargo could possibly stop it from tanking.
Clearly Microsoft are convinced that the huge marketing campaign will pay off. And it can only pay off if lots and lots of people like and buy the product.
I'm not sure which 8 people disagreed, but they're not PC owners.
Steam is great, here's to 40 million users...
Please stop spreading this nonsense.
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Mind. Blown.
Here's a reality check for those who still think the Cell (while admittedly very powerful) is years ahead of current CPUs and GPUs.
This is what Elcomsoft, a major password recovery company, have to say:
"Nick updated his presentation (jump to page 46) to reflect that the actual «cracking rate» [of the Playstation 3] was only 80 million. How this compares to GPUs? GTX 285 can do about 580 million MD5 hashes per second, and GTX 295 approach...
A 40" HDTV? OMG! Wow, that is sooooooo big, especially when viewed from 6 feet or more. Geez, that's huge.
FYI: To match the size of 26" at 2 feet you'd need 78" at 6 feet. Doubling the distance halves the size.
Apparently you are an ADD action junkie who doesn't give a darn about the storyline.
And which flashbacks/introduction do you suggest for Mass Effect 2?
What happened to the council? What happened to the Rachni queen? Which of your old crew members are still alive? What's the status on Cerberus?
These are questions every player answers differently because the game's storyline branches out so much depending on your decisions.
That's exactly right. With practically everything being multi-platform, there's really no need for anything more than a dual core and a mid range graphics card.
http://www.tomshardware.com...
You really need to stop and think about the demographics. Move will not sell a lot of new consoles, it will mostly be bought by those who already own a PS3.
Kinect on the other hand will pull in a lot of new casual gamers, even Wii owners, because it's different. Different in a good or bad way? I don't know, haven't tried it and never will.
But in terms of sales, these systems won't even be in the same ballpark.
It makes perfect sense though.
Think about it. Half-Life doesn't have much of a fan base, and all the games were critical failures:
Metacritic Half-Life 1 = 96
Metacritic Half-Life 2 = 96
Metacritic Half-Life 2 E1 = 87
Metacritic Half-Life 2 E2 = 90
Why would they want to continue this unsuccessful franchise? Of course other random games take precedence.
I can tell you how it compares to an actual surround system with multiple speakers: not at all. Different worlds.
Here is something visual for the folks with blinders:
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