It's not hard to make a game look good when your only rendering a war-torn street or an interior hallway. Most games use smoke and mirrors to make areas appear to be vast, when really your only playing in a box. Crysis goes ahead of other Shooters and fully renders entire islands, full of foliage and does it beautifully. If you can see it in Crysis you can get to it and explore it. Along with that it has some of the best physics, environment interaction, and post processing effects ever seen...
It's consumerism at it's worst. The day after Thanksgiving the stores open about 1-2 hours early and sell limited amounts of goods at bargain prices. This leads to People trampling others just to get to a coveted toy or electronic item. Some times it can be worth it as far as electronics go. Some sell for as low as 50% off. I will go again this year if they put a deal on Geforce 8800 GT cards, or maybe just to watch all the Bad Santas climbing over each other.
bubbles for you.
Yes "Late Goodbye" is an amazing song. Max Payne 2 is still one of my all time favorite games. Too bad there may not be another game since they killed off all the supporting characters.
I think they were going for best artist recorded songs, not midi synth music.
Why the hell would it need a stock? It's not like the thing has recoil.
bubbles for muffins :)
My copy was a gift from my GF. If it wasn't for that I probably would have rented it.
COD4 is condensed greatness, but Crysis has longer legs and tons more replay value. COD4 will be exactly the same every time you play through. With Crysis you choose how you play.
I think the best MMO's are built around two or more opposing playable factions. Everything else feels just like a normal co-op multiplayer game. When your friend and enemies are controlled by real people, it make the gameplay much more rewarding. You have real admiration for your friends, and often real disdain or respect for the opposing side.
I didn't like Guild Wars because outside of the cities the entire game was instanced. You don't have the hope that a higher level character might come along and help you or the fear of an enemy PvP encounter. Guild wars makes you feel like your playing in a box where as with WoW you actually know your playing in a large world, where unexpected things can happen.
PC gaming tends to favor quality over quantity, and I hope it stays that way.
I think they kind of have it backwards. People don't game because they are conservative or liberal. Most gamers are relatively young and young people tend to lean left politically.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain. - Winston Churchill
Complete and total crap. Read over to their Crysis Review or non-reveiw. They waste an entire page bs'ing about how they can't run Cryisis at full specs.
It's not a shallow game, you're just a shallow gamer.
I still keep myself subscribes to a couple PC gaming mags, especially PC Gamer. I personally see print media as set to a higher standard than online gaming journalism.
Looks more like a warning not to step in open manholes.
COD4 was fantastic, but every time you play it, it's going to be exactly the same. Thats the problem with overly scripted and linear games.
It seems games will now be reviewed solely by their "Purchaseability".
This is one of the rare strategy games that would work just as well on a console as a PC because Civilization doesn't require any quick thinking or quick actions.