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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.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Mario Party 8
Mario Party 8 comes out Wednesday. It will be $39.99 at Circuit City.
Retailer Circuit City on Sun. began advertising Mario Party 8 for Nintendo Co.'s Wii video game system at $10 off the standard MSRP.
The party game will be sold in-store beginning this Wed. for $39.99, a 20 perecent savings from its regular price.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Lego Star Wars 2 = Sweet
I got this game from gameznflix yesterday, and I thought, "Man, this is gonna blow." I popped it in the 360, and I haven't stopped playing it since.
You pretty much just play through the movies in story mode and follow the movie story or play in free play which allows you to make your own goofy characters. I made a dude with pink hair and pink light sabre and a cloak all dressed in black. He looks sweet. He also has Dark Jedi powers like choking people and hanging them up by their feet and dropping them on their heads. I love doing that. Oh and Luke is still a whiny bitch.
I have only gotten past the first movie, but I can say, this is the best adaptation of the movies in a video game I have ever played. It also has co-op. I don't know if you can play over XBL but I assume you can. Davey has 2 get it lol.
You pretty much just play through the movies in story mode and follow the movie story or play in free play which allows you to make your own goofy characters. I made a dude with pink hair and pink light sabre and a cloak all dressed in black. He looks sweet. He also has Dark Jedi powers like choking people and hanging them up by their feet and dropping them on their heads. I love doing that. Oh and Luke is still a whiny bitch.
I have only gotten past the first movie, but I can say, this is the best adaptation of the movies in a video game I have ever played. It also has co-op. I don't know if you can play over XBL but I assume you can. Davey has 2 get it lol.
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