May200825

Race Driver: Grid – Xbox 360 vs PC

Race Driver: GRID demo was released for Xbox 360 and PC (also possibly PS3 but I don’t have one…so I don’t know).

I have played it on PC and Xbox 360 and I would personally say PC is better.

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Mar200828

Far Cry 2

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of a semi-private viewing of Far Cry 2 in action.  Unfortunately no camera’s were allowed but there wasn’t really much more to see than what it already on the Internet.  The demo that was shown was a November 2007 build.

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Source of image: Far Cry 2 Headquaters

Far Cry 2 is set in the savannah of Africa.  The Far Cry team has moved away from the jungle environment which we basically saw again in Crysis.  The weather is humid and green vegetation is rare in this vast openness.

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Nov200704

Fifa 2008 – The woes continue

As well as the previous problems with Fifa 2008, the game continues to piss me off as I try to play it a bit more.

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I tried, and that’s that.  The game is not accurate at all and is inconsistent to say the least. The game seems to randomly decide whether players run through each other or tackle the other play, and when they do tackle the player there are only 2 outcomes.  One being the player tackling falls over leaving the attacking player with the ball through on goal, the other being the playing tackling wins the ball but doesn’t control the ball because it would be too much to ask for him not to be a complete twat with 2 left feet.

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Nov200703

Timeshift

Timeshift is a science fiction first person shooter for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The game has already been released for PC and Xbox but the release for Playstation 3 is scheduled for December.

Timeshift is not completely revolutionary but it is somewhat different to a lot of the generic FPS’s that have been coming out recently.

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Nov200703

Need For Speed: Pro Street Demo Preview – PC vs Xbox 360

I have played the demo on both the Xbox 360 and the PC and without a doubt in my mind the Xbox 360 version is a hell of a lot better.

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Oct200728

FIFA 08 – Dear O Dear

This is not a review as I haven’t played any of the other recent FIFA titles or played any Pro Evolution Soccer either.  This is more of my nightmare playing FIFA 08.

The list pretty much grows everytime I play it, and I guess I should stop playing it but I played for it so I should play it and enjoy not that that has ever happened in my 5 hours or so of playing FIFA 08 since receiving the game.

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I will start off with actual in game problems that I have constantly. 

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Oct200724

Public beta releases

It seems to me that a lot of Developers/Publishers are releasing beta’s of their games before the demo to the public. For Publishers like EA this seems very strange as most of the games they release are buggy as hell anyway and that is after private beta and demo release.

It would seem as though certain companies are either trying to improve their new games to remove as many bugs as possible by doing a public beta or saving money by skipping private beta testing.

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