Halo 3 was never about the graphics. We all know this, yet continue to blithely bash it for that very reason.
The developers had a focus and a drive to produce a unique art style, one that paid homage to Halo 1, that wasn't Gritty Shooter #4. Comparing a game like Killzone 2 to Halo 3 is like comparing apples to oranges.
Killzone 2 may be absolutely jaw-droppingly amazing, but no game is perfect. Anyone who denies this is a fool. Give the site its hit. The less often we point out a game's mistakes, the less incentive it has to improve.
And what kind of person wouldn't want Killzone 3 to be better than Killzone 2?
You can't get anywhere in this society without nerds. Failing to pay homage to that is insulting to the company that designed the graphics chip, and extremely ungrateful.
Mind me asking what a "steelbox" version is if it's not a collector's edition version of the game?
I don't get why everyone's so worked up. So what if Maxim's reviewer didn't like your fanboy dream. QQ.
@1.1: I agree. GT5 may very well actually have better physics than Forza 2, but be that as it may, you can't come to a conclusion based on 3 low-quality videos on YouTube.
The article author should just go /wrist right now.
@2.1: Sorry, fanboy. It ain't a fact. It's a personal opinion. A justifiable value judgment based on past experience. And that's perfectly acceptable, until you start treating your opinion as anything more than what it is; that's when you take a step over the line between "reasonable, independent gamer" and "self-righteous arrogant prick".
The value of a game varies between person to person. Do not act as if its value within your eyes is absolute truth. Otherw...
Actually, it's more like calling Doom AND Doom 2 a shameless Halo ripoff. BOTH Rock Band games came before Guitar Hero World Tour.
Grand Theft Auto 4 had like infinite really smooth and realistic-looking death animations. Yay NaMo.
AKA "Generic FPS buffed-up human bad guy #42 with artificially increased accuracy, health, and X-ray vision".
Same thing happened to me. In the end they upgraded me to an M1730.
Gotta love Dell CompleteCare.
Educated guesstimates: 90%+ of iPhone users use the web browser and like 20-30% users of other makes use theirs. Just because there are a lot more users of non-Apple phones doesn't mean they all use their web browsers.
But that's probably because other phone companies don't force internet service down their customer's throats.
Zune interface > iPod Classic interface in terms of intuitiveness.
I do not want to have to press the menu button twice and the middle clicker once just to switch from album to artist. I just want to press right.
Admittedly, though... iPod Touch interface > both.
"New" products? These have been on storefronts for at least six months...
Is anyone else curious as to how someone managed to get five well-known voice actors in the same room outside of their job?
The reason why PS3 is more expensive is because they include everything standard (Wi-Fi, hard drive, online service, wireless controllers). That way they would only have one or two simple and complete configurations, but then they don't provide customers with much choice, and manufacturing the whole thing is expensive.
The 360 includes a lot fewer things in the box and instead sells everything separately as accessories if you need it. Because of this, manufacturing the 360 itself...
The PS3 is just as successful as the 360. If people are going to call out the PS3 for failing, then they really need to start making articles about the 360's demise too, because both of their performances in the charts is almost matched.
At the end of the day, the whole truth is that they're all VERY successful consoles with a long future ahead of them.
If Home itself was a game with a growth mechanic and its own storyline rather than just a social experience, maybe it'd have some backbone. That's the reason why MMO's are successful. They feature engaging gameplay in between sessions of general d*cking around social lobbies.
Because personally, if I want to invite someone to a party in order to play a game together, it's better to do it from a convenient menu rather than complicate the process by making me log into Home first, e...
It feels like a lot of extra, unneeded added between menu options, imo. Now I can't just press down to select the next option on the menu, I have to download the right zone, zone in, and walk all the way over to a terminal or whatever order to select the next option on the menu.
*sigh*
lulz @ off-topic