gameplay using bots - they can join you online too to fill out the games.
You can get 3 of them to follow you round at a time. Pretty cool really.
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It's paid for differently to other channels.
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MS taking a chance?
1) RTS's are one of the most common forms of game - just like FPSs. They're not good on consoles though. Besides which, MS were apprently so confident of this they closed the studio down. That's some forward thinking.
2) The jibe at "other platforms" games this month. Flower and Noby Noby Boy are perhaps the best examples of gaming ingenuity released this month.
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1) This article was already approved once - it is the source for the Gamezine article that talks about FPS down to 20 in KZ. This is a dupe.
2) DigitalFoundry does good work and interesting analysis - however, they have been working in the past to provide comparisons of multiplats for Eurogamer. They don't do many exclusives buy they are doing KZ2. My problem is why aren't they also FPS testing Gears, Fable or whatever exclusives for the Xbox too?
As it stands, we ha...
Like anything, RTFM.
I think there is potentially a really good game set in the American West - is this it though?
That game would include elements like San Andreas - the ability to own properties to make money - ranching, brothels, mines etc.
Also something along the lines of Frontier - trading between towns, taking assassinations, fight for the South/North or just plain banditry in the open.
If this is yet another, go here and shoot people game, then I think Rockstar will ...
and really - awesome is the way it might be described by someone who either hasn't played many FPS's or has a pro-MS axe to grind on here.
The reality is this is a short lived game. It's fun initially, but once the fun has worn off, there is little to come back for.
Compare it to something like CS, DoD, TF2 - those are games I still play years after release. I haven't loaded L4D since about a week after its release.
While this would probably be alright o...
LBP was a PS3 exclusive and already sold 2 million - that's a flop according to some (non-PS3 playing) people.
These two games have sold a million each across 3 platforms and they're doing good apparently (presumably those same non-PS3 players).....
Hehe.
Anywho, Mirrors Edge is OK once you get into its groove. Deadspace - I only tried the demo.
Seems like 3rd parties have mis-judged the market - exclusives are still where it's at. People li...
Which was absolutely terrible and yet got massive scores.
I played SOCOM from about a week after launch and found it OK/Good and still is. L4D I only played for about a week after launch (got bored with it pretty quick) and with the lag and limited gameplay I can't see how it should score so highly or at least not be scored lower for its release issues.
Didn't bother with Gears2 so can't talk on that one.
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I guess they really want a deal of some kind with MS. These last few months they posted a lot of pro MS stuff that isn't journalism so much as marketing.
Yahoo - you used to be cool man (but that was a long time ago).
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Premier League is too expensive for the BBC.
At least they've got F1 back and the 6 nations is coming...
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L4D (Pc version) seems like the co-op part of a bigger more complete game. Unfortunately the rest of the game is missing.
While it is fun, I expect it to be fairly short lived. It's the same for versus mode. It's always difficult to balance 2 sides which play so differently and Valve have done a good job on this, yet the whole experience feels "throw away". You don't care about life or death, headshots, tactics or whatever - it just feels a bit mindless even by FPS stan...
L4D is no where near as good a game as MGS4.
So that's hardly a fair trade for the 360.
To describe to people who haven't played it - in terms of *basic gameplay* L4D is a cut down version of R2's online co-op mode. I say cut down for 2 reasons, first even on the Expert/Impossible level, L4D is not as hard as R2 and second because it only supports 4 players co-op (and in the demo at least has a terrible online matching method even on the PC).
L4D might w...
it's just the published levels that are getting deleted/unpublished.
So if you were to get all bent out of shape about it I guess you could just publish it again and hope it gets to stay next time (or perhaps mod it to make it acceptable).
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If it's missing now (assuming it's the one I played in the beta) I imagine it has been removed due to the "violent" content rather than any copyright issue.
It had you causing the "deaths" of various "people" and running through "dead bodies". All that stuff is in quotes because of course it's all LBP constructed stuff - but even so, for an everyone rated game I remember thinking that it's imagery was perhaps a little too violent for younge...
Fable 2 and Fallout 3 are "rendered positively pedestrian" by LBP...
From the Daily Mail too? Surprised they're not moaning about the lack of white Sackboys and how foreigners are filling up the LBP servers with poor plumbing!
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I feel this game is only going to be any good if it gets a decent amount of modding support. It's just too short & limited otherwise.
Since 360 + mods = no from MS, that is a poor platform to buy it on. But since the graphics are pretty weak for a PC game, even old PCs play it OK so just get it there (and hope it gets some support to make it worth the money).
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I played the demo a few times yesterday. First things first - not as often as I wanted because of the massive server problems.
For comparison, SOCOM just had a rocky release with various server issues and was given scores as low as 6.5/10 for it. By that standard, yesterdays performance from L4D (PC) gets it about a 4/10....
Anyway, server probs aren't really an issue they can be fixed.
However what is more problematic is how long anyone will play the ga...
How could MS have announced it at GDC '07?
They didn't know they'd be copying Ninty until the beginning of this year :p
The total for the referenced countries was 74.7 Million.
UK provided 32 Million.
As compared to France, Spain, Norway, Australia, Denmark, Sweden and the Czech Republic which combined, produced 42.7 Million.
Admittedly that's a lot of countries, but many of those have quite small populations.
Still, despite all that, unless you're an accountant for a company thinking about launching a game console, those numbers are irrelevant.
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