8th November 2007, 9:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 8th November 2007, 10:04 PM by A Black Falcon.)
It makes computers cry. The (single-player) demo sure does, anyway. Amazing, amazing graphics, but awful framerates to match at High or Very High detail levels...
Am I so wrong for wanting to be able to play it at max settings on a six month old computer? It's playable at a mix of High and Very High (most settings on Very High except for a few that hurt the framerate the most) with no AA, but even then the framerate isn't exactly great. And I'm just using 1024x768.
Good:
- Awesome graphics! Best ever? Almost certainly.
- Large environments... this is an issue when you're running into rocks and stuff because of the framerate, and driving cars from inside them is suicidal, and it's not FULLY open -- you do have a path -- but they make it wide and varied enough that you usually don't feel too railed along... the level design is really well done, based on the demo level. The enemies also chase you for a while, so you can't let up your guard...
- Ingame maps, with both an onscreen minimap and of the whole area! They even mark enemies on them as well as objectives, and their threat level (not in the high difficulty though, of course).
- Plot seems good enough for a game of this type.
- Nice weapon variety
-You have a superpowered suit -- invisibility, super speed, super jumping... cool stuff.
- The enemies are North Korean and they speak with Korean accents or, in the hardest difficulty (which also minimizes your sight indicators) is Korean... nice touch.
Bad:
- Limited ammo -- are you supposed to avoid them all somehow? Just use the ammo you get off of the bodies, meaning you mostly fight with their guns? I did the latter...
- You can only hold a couple of guns of each type. More realistic, sure, but it's fun to be a walking arsenal... :D (you can carry two machine guns, several pistols, etc, so there is a decent amount you can hold at least)
- What's with every FPS these days having the Halo-style "stop moving and you heal" thing? Sure it makes things easier, but better? Not necessarily...
- The framerate (unless you turn the graphics way down) is bad with anything less than computers that won't be out for a year.
PC Gamer gave it a 98%, which ties it with Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri for the highest scores they've ever given. Does it deserve it? I'm not sure... the game is good, sure, but it's the graphic engine that's the biggest star.
Am I so wrong for wanting to be able to play it at max settings on a six month old computer? It's playable at a mix of High and Very High (most settings on Very High except for a few that hurt the framerate the most) with no AA, but even then the framerate isn't exactly great. And I'm just using 1024x768.
Good:
- Awesome graphics! Best ever? Almost certainly.
- Large environments... this is an issue when you're running into rocks and stuff because of the framerate, and driving cars from inside them is suicidal, and it's not FULLY open -- you do have a path -- but they make it wide and varied enough that you usually don't feel too railed along... the level design is really well done, based on the demo level. The enemies also chase you for a while, so you can't let up your guard...
- Ingame maps, with both an onscreen minimap and of the whole area! They even mark enemies on them as well as objectives, and their threat level (not in the high difficulty though, of course).
- Plot seems good enough for a game of this type.
- Nice weapon variety
-You have a superpowered suit -- invisibility, super speed, super jumping... cool stuff.
- The enemies are North Korean and they speak with Korean accents or, in the hardest difficulty (which also minimizes your sight indicators) is Korean... nice touch.
Bad:
- Limited ammo -- are you supposed to avoid them all somehow? Just use the ammo you get off of the bodies, meaning you mostly fight with their guns? I did the latter...
- You can only hold a couple of guns of each type. More realistic, sure, but it's fun to be a walking arsenal... :D (you can carry two machine guns, several pistols, etc, so there is a decent amount you can hold at least)
- What's with every FPS these days having the Halo-style "stop moving and you heal" thing? Sure it makes things easier, but better? Not necessarily...
- The framerate (unless you turn the graphics way down) is bad with anything less than computers that won't be out for a year.
PC Gamer gave it a 98%, which ties it with Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri for the highest scores they've ever given. Does it deserve it? I'm not sure... the game is good, sure, but it's the graphic engine that's the biggest star.
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