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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Spider-Man 3, One Month Later
Approximately one month after release, Spider-Man 3 is awash in a sea of its own mediocrity; gamespot's numbers don't lie:
Spider-Man 3 ratings:
PS3: 6.6
X360: 6.6
PS2: 4.7
WII: 4.7
PC: 6.3
The lower powered systems just couldn't handle the game properly, and the developer dropped the ball bigtime. Even on systems where the game performed properly, it still received particularly low ratings for a big franchise Beat 'em up.
What's really interesting is how this developer, Beenox, decided to make the worst Console-to-PC port since Halo -- and then provide no support for it. Simply put, the port sucks. It's completely unoptimized for PCs and nVidia hardware on the whole.
Over at the gamespot forums, PC users have been up in arms since release over this poor piece of software; they are either disappointed, due to the poor port and their not-so-beefy PCs being unable to run it -- or they are able to run the game with exceptionally powerful PCs, and are dismissive of anyone who doesn't have one.
Users are concocting all sorts of superstitious witchcraft in the game's config files, and religiously defragging, trying desperately to squeeze a few more FPS out of the port.
The bottom line is Beenox has dropped the ball on the game, as evidenced by the overall ratings, and the port is so abysmal it might as well not exist.
Beenox blames Activision, Activision blames Beenox, and in the end you either waste $30 on the game or spend $1000 on new PC parts.
If you don't have a smoking fast PC, it's probably cheaper to buy an X360 and a copy of SM3.
You can complain to Beenox here or, ask Activision not to use Beenox as a developer anymore.
Spider-Man 3 ratings:
PS3: 6.6
X360: 6.6
PS2: 4.7
WII: 4.7
PC: 6.3
The lower powered systems just couldn't handle the game properly, and the developer dropped the ball bigtime. Even on systems where the game performed properly, it still received particularly low ratings for a big franchise Beat 'em up.
What's really interesting is how this developer, Beenox, decided to make the worst Console-to-PC port since Halo -- and then provide no support for it. Simply put, the port sucks. It's completely unoptimized for PCs and nVidia hardware on the whole.
Over at the gamespot forums, PC users have been up in arms since release over this poor piece of software; they are either disappointed, due to the poor port and their not-so-beefy PCs being unable to run it -- or they are able to run the game with exceptionally powerful PCs, and are dismissive of anyone who doesn't have one.
Users are concocting all sorts of superstitious witchcraft in the game's config files, and religiously defragging, trying desperately to squeeze a few more FPS out of the port.
The bottom line is Beenox has dropped the ball on the game, as evidenced by the overall ratings, and the port is so abysmal it might as well not exist.
Beenox blames Activision, Activision blames Beenox, and in the end you either waste $30 on the game or spend $1000 on new PC parts.
If you don't have a smoking fast PC, it's probably cheaper to buy an X360 and a copy of SM3.
You can complain to Beenox here or, ask Activision not to use Beenox as a developer anymore.
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