However it's the engine delay loading the textures (you can see "saving content please wait" in one of the shots). When 360 gets loaded UT3 does this all the time.
(I know, since I recently finished Mass Effect, first you see blurry stuff on the screen, then Quake 3 like graphics, and finally the real stuff).
It's an issue, but fortunately, it's not constant.
Apparently one of the better GoW clones (especially liked the helicopter head chop scene). However it's time we moved on from these comparisons. (Both versions looks good enough for their respective console owners).
I like soundtracks, especially when they are free!
Bubbles to both of you for informing us
Porting from PS3 to 360 is easy, but the reverse is not. So they might actually have the same performance on both consoles.
(Unless PS3 version fully utilizes 5 or more SPUs, then 360 version will be inferior).
There is more to console games than resolutions, it generally is a better experience. Many reasons are out there, but what I can remember now are:
* Consoles just work, you put in your disc, and the game starts (OK, you need installs on PS3, and there is RROD on 360, but we're talking in general)
* There is only one hardware, so no need to wonder whether your system will be able to handle a game
* You can hook up more than one (4 on 360, 7 on PS3) controller and play ...
You'll probably never see FF XIII on the PC. Not now, not next year, not in the future.
You can have the best setup, and even hook it up to your big screen, however as long as you're lacking in the games department, it does not matter.
Uncompressed audio is good, but at blu-ray level qualities (96KHz, 24bit, 7.1 ch) it requires ~8GB/hour. If they scale down the the videos, and compress the audio, the game will reduce at least to half of its size.
Audio compression is OK (there are very good codecs), however 720p videos could be a difference.
The previous SE games on 360 looked, frankly, very bad. I hope they can keep up their promises making both versions comparable.
The best looking RPG I saw on so far on 360 was Lost Odyssey. I don't think it was 1080p, yet it came in 4 (yep four) discs.
PSP is a good device, and MS is not even in the market. No need to stir a flamewar here.
I'd like to bu another PSP (game mine to my brother). However there are no games that makes me exited as Chains of Olympus or Crisis Core did.
Many genres are still better on PC (RTS, MMO)
And you can hook up your 360 controller to play PC ports with higher resolution (1920x1200 Bioshock @60 FPS with highest quality, for some people only of course)
My hard drive usually has only ~7GB free, which I recycle to install the latest game I'm playing. I have not purchased a single thing from video store, and there are not much demos (I've plenty of Arcade games).
Finally, actually some of the demos are really fun and have high replay value (like Fifa Street, for example), which makes keeping them desirable.
(This is a 20GB drive).
This is off topic, bu someone mentioned arcade price drop being the reason for 360 sales.
Recently there was an interview (~1 hour long) with Major Nelson. He clearly mentioned that the main part of sales is in Pro (60GB version), while Arcade and Elites were minor (in comparison).
Personally I don't believe any hardcore gamer will get an Arcade, unless it's a secondary/replacement one.
Except for the high fan noise, 360 is a good media player, too (at least for me).
It's more or less the same on 360. You cannot play mkv's but avi, h264, divx works. It has more screen resolutions (due to VGA output), and probably supports slightly more formats, but the difference is minor.
Basically every media server for PS3 (PlayOn, TVersity, etc) works for 360 too.
There is a FAQ at: http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxt...
I finally (after one year) started paying for gold (previously I used many of trial codes I had). Anyways the features I used are:
* Netflix streaming
* Weekly game discounts (I think I saved ~1200 ms points)
* 400 free points for sign-up
As you can see I did not list online multiplayer there. I was fine with my PC, my friend's PS3, and occasional trial weekends (I had 2 day free codes).
But the other features finally made me subscribe. And f...
Both Fable II and Mass Effect had very interesting moments, where your choices had significant effect on the game (making you lose characters, quests, or areas permanently). However both also had shortcomings.
Especially the "getting away with it" in Mass Effect was a little bit bad. You could have the worst bad mouthing, disobedient, arrogant behavior to your superiors, even hang up on them, yet they still continue to support you (thus giving you easy renegade points w...
You can play Kotor on 360, if yo no longer have an original Xbox.
(Or the PC version, but there are issues with Vista).
Which version of GNOME are you running? Because I have only the file manager use more than amount:
$ ps aux
sukru 7423 0.0 1.9 104024 20360 ? Ss Apr02 0:09 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
(104MB shared, 20MB non shared memory)
Forget about the comparison, just download the demo and play it.
It is *BRUTAL*. Many different options to chop people, and smooth fluid action. And of course lots of blood. Really had the God of War feeling in it.
I'd buy the game if I was not broke.