23rd March 2004, 11:14 PM
So does Halo (uses checkpoints yes, but it saves the EXACT place down to position there, leading to a few points where I remember the game saving me falling to my death). However, Halo's save files are small enough to fit on a memory card. Halo doesn't have all those stats, but that list of numbers shouldn't be so big that it increases the size to double the size of an XBox memory card. I think it basically saves the entire state of the game and doesn't use any sort of flag saving to conserve space.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)