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Call Of Duty 4

Tempted, although it'll have to wait until my debts are cleared...

Really want a proper console again. The Wii is cool but it's more an accompanying console than your main entertainment box at present (although I reckon, like the DS, that will change over time)...
 
Finished the single player and glad to see that I wasn't disappointed with the ending as so often happens these days.

Went and did the sniper mission again on a higher level
Shot the ferral dog. ROFL at what happens next.
Also found a stinger and shot a helicopter. Oops gave my position away lol :)
 
Well I was umming/ah-ing about getting this, what with Mass Effect 3 days away and Mario Galaxy still way short of my 120 coins, but the praise on this thread led me to cave. Went out yesterday to get it, only to find that..........



'Tis banned here in Dubai due to "it's depiction of violence against the Islamic people" - according to the shop assistant anyway.

:mad:

I suppose although - as far as I am aware - the setting is fictional and they stop short of naming names, it is obvious that it takes place in a representation of a Middle Eastern Muslim country.

Oh well - looks like I will have to order it in from Play Asia after all.

:rolleyes:
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Better in terms of frame rate graphical detail etc. I thought the PS3 was a more powerful console than the 360?
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On paper?


Arguably I suppose, but not by much.


In real terms? No not really.

In fact many developers have publicly stated that although there are aspects of the PS3 that are technically superior to the 360, the XBox is more usable and flexible from a coding point of view.

As far as I am aware, there have been no games to date that have been released on both systems where the PS3 version is superior in any way in terms of sound or graphics. In fact in a few cases, it has been the other way round due to the aforementioned issues with making games for the Sony system - especially with ports from existing 360 or PC-based games.

I think in the odd instance where there has been a definite positive difference in a PS3 release over the equivalent 360 version, it has only been down to the Blu-Ray media being able to store more data than the XBox DVD - hence a few more in-game movies or more bonus content.
 
Fair enough, if the ps3 is technically more powerful (I know thats a very lazy and generic term) wont dev teams in time be able to produce better results on it once they're used to the architecture?
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Fair enough, if the ps3 is technically more powerful (I know thats a very lazy and generic term) wont dev teams in time be able to produce better results on it once they're used to the architecture?
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It is a good point, and the answer is possibly "yes" but I think the question now goes beyond my understanding of the architecture of both systems and how it relates to games coding!

If you trawl the web, you can find plenty of partisan articles listing the technical reasons why one system is superior to the other - I am not sure which, if any, are more "correct".

As we both know, through any systems lifetime, we will see a continual push to get more and more out of the hardware - compare God of War 2 to one of the PS2 launch games and you can easily see how far it is possible to push a system when you have a better understanding of how to get the most out of it.

I have heard that one of the key issues/problems with the PS3 is the way it's memory works - My understanding is that it has rigidly defined memory areas for different aspects (graphics, system RAM etc) and functions.

The 360 has a unified memory system, which allows it to allocate available RAM to whatever function requires it most at any given time, which allows for far more flexiblity. I also believe the memory and system BUS/Bandwidth is superior in the 360 when compared to the PS3.

That said, and aside from the fact that the Cell CPU is arguably more powerful than the 360s processor, I do believe that the 360 will find itself ham-strung by the limited storage space on a DVD compared to Blu-Ray.
As textures and graphics get more detailed, their effective size goes up. Regardless of the 360's technical ability to process such large textures and high-res images, if you can't actually fit them on the disk to start with.........


I am sure plenty of people will be along shortly to tell me exactly why I am utterly wrong.

;)
 
mauvais said:
It's turning out to be a truly excellent game - so much variety, and neatly done too. The AC130 mission was genius - other games would have done that as a half baked minigame.
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Just finished it this morning :(

But it unlocks arcade mode that lets you redo missions (just redid AC-130 mission).
 
Structaural said:
Just finished it this morning :(

But it unlocks arcade mode that lets you redo missions (just redid AC-130 mission).
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yes but have you tried the epilogue on veteran?
 
rescue the vip in 1 min , 2 shots and ur dead , um epilogue on vetran as it says , ' you will die '!!!!!


this is the only game where ive gone srtraight on and tried it on a harder difficulty!!!

you notice so much more when you play it the second time round , like recognising the bloke in the car from the titles form later on in the game :cool:
 
Swarfega said:
On paper?


Arguably I suppose, but not by much.


In real terms? No not really.

In fact many developers have publicly stated that although there are aspects of the PS3 that are technically superior to the 360, the XBox is more usable and flexible from a coding point of view.

As far as I am aware, there have been no games to date that have been released on both systems where the PS3 version is superior in any way in terms of sound or graphics. In fact in a few cases, it has been the other way round due to the aforementioned issues with making games for the Sony system - especially with ports from existing 360 or PC-based games.

I think in the odd instance where there has been a definite positive difference in a PS3 release over the equivalent 360 version, it has only been down to the Blu-Ray media being able to store more data than the XBox DVD - hence a few more in-game movies or more bonus content.
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Oblivion is the only game I can think of that is better on the PS3. Oh and Fight Night. In both those cases the game came out long after the 360 version, hence you could expect it to be better - in the same way how you could expect Virtua Fighter 5 to be better on the Xbox 360.

As far as I know every game that has been developed for both systems at the same time is superior on the Xbox 360, both the actual game (the graphics/framerate etc) and the online mode/content.
 
The PS3 will one day be better than the xbox but not yet. Not till the developers have spent years unlocking the potential.

For now they are pretty even with xbox winning by being established.
 
the joke is of course that the PC is now moving far beyond any of the consoles and will continue to for the next 3 years.
 
revol68 said:
the joke is of course that the PC is now moving far beyond any of the consoles and will continue to for the next 3 years.
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It always will not just for 3 years. Consoles will always used tech that has been tried and tested already to keep costs low.
 
Marius said:
The PS3 will one day be better than the xbox but not yet. Not till the developers have spent years unlocking the potential.
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I'm not sure that will ever be true, especially when developers seems to be shying away from the PS3 (spending longer time developing games for a system with a smaller user base doesn't make financial sense).

I'm not even convinced that the PS3 is a technically superior console, hence fanboy talk of "unleashing the hidden power of the cell" etc is exactly that - talk.

I think the 360 has got a good year in it before even the possibility of the PS3 overtaking it is there - and this time next year I'd expect to be able to pick one up for not much more than half it's current cost, making it a more attractive purchase.

I'd expect to see a new Xbox console in 2009, so by the time the PS3 may have (?) established itself as the better of the two consoles, there will be a much more powerful Microsoft offering on the close horizon.
 
revol68 said:
cos it's funny listening to xbox and playstation owners talk about the 'power' of their systems.:D
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It is? As funny as the stupid amount of money a pc gamer has to keep spending just so he can play his games?
 
Kid_Eternity said:
It is? As funny as the stupid amount of money a pc gamer has to keep spending just so he can play his games?
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well i take it you paid money for the pc your using at the moment, no? The money I save on games more than makes up for it.
 
All this talk is tempting me more... but is it just "shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot like fucking mad" or is there a bit more thought behind it?
 
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