these are the three i currently own
Farcry - such a beautiful game....outdoors, indoors i never really felt the texture quality was all that high, things looked very flat, very grainy, and some things got that DX9 shiny effect which made everything look plastic. the characters looked plastic, and the mutated monkeys made me laugh so hard, they looked totally rediculous. even outdoors, you can pick faults, textures did that wierd stretching over tight angles, (ie cliffs, sides of rocks) and even on very high settings, vegetation still obviously faded in, and there wasn no foiliage reflections on the water. AI sucked, i found soldiers on numerous occasions just staring at the wall, even though i was right behind him. still i played it to the end, but wont be playing again
HL2 - the best looking game by far for me, graphics looked awesome, the level of interactivity was awesome, characters faces were awesome, and of course Alyx and Dog were awesome.i think the physics engine was the games ace up the sleeve. but i couldnt help think that A) the game was too short and B) the game was far too easy, even on the hardest mode, i had no trouble completing it. graphics promised in promo videos never showed up (aka HDR), and im not entirely sure that the very little in the way of scripted events idea ever made it into the game either. the game didnt seem as epic as the promo videos suggested. and playing through again pretty much showed everything was scripted. i played it twice so i guess that means something, but i find myself playing CS: S more than HL2 deathmatch which is rubbish IMO.
DooM 3 - what can i say? i havent even bothered to finish it. i got so bored with the running round in a dark room, monster popping out the closet and shooting imps 2-3 times with the shot gun. i also found it fairly difficult, and it does feel like id been playing forever, only to find there was a good weeks worth of levels still to go. lighing and atmosphere was really good, but most things just didnt look that high a resolution, compared to promo material. characters suits and clothing looked well fuzzy and blotchy, and that crazy scientist guy (good solid idea for a story i think not) had a hexagnol head!
how could ID get a game so wrong, it was repetitive drivel that i could of done not spending money on (but i did coz i wanted to show my 6800GT off) its a poor game IMO, with a few fancy grahics. again most things in this appeared plastic, but not as bad as Farcry. - havent bothered to finish this game, its complete rubbish
UT2004 - big fan of this, so guess this is biased, but even though theres plenty of game types, i find my self gettin bored quickly with anything but onslaught and assault. graphically even though its old technology compared to the above, i dont think they could of done anybetter, textures are crisp and colours are wonderful. physics arent OTT, everything just moves right, the game feels right. dont think epic can top this if they used the same game engine. UT2004 is almost perfect and it will be a keeper.
the last really good single palyer game i played, (UT is stil great) was Return to castle wolfenstein. i played that like there was no tomorrow, i didnt wanna turn it off, it was such a compelling game to play. infact, im gonna crack it open now and have a play
Farcry - such a beautiful game....outdoors, indoors i never really felt the texture quality was all that high, things looked very flat, very grainy, and some things got that DX9 shiny effect which made everything look plastic. the characters looked plastic, and the mutated monkeys made me laugh so hard, they looked totally rediculous. even outdoors, you can pick faults, textures did that wierd stretching over tight angles, (ie cliffs, sides of rocks) and even on very high settings, vegetation still obviously faded in, and there wasn no foiliage reflections on the water. AI sucked, i found soldiers on numerous occasions just staring at the wall, even though i was right behind him. still i played it to the end, but wont be playing again
HL2 - the best looking game by far for me, graphics looked awesome, the level of interactivity was awesome, characters faces were awesome, and of course Alyx and Dog were awesome.i think the physics engine was the games ace up the sleeve. but i couldnt help think that A) the game was too short and B) the game was far too easy, even on the hardest mode, i had no trouble completing it. graphics promised in promo videos never showed up (aka HDR), and im not entirely sure that the very little in the way of scripted events idea ever made it into the game either. the game didnt seem as epic as the promo videos suggested. and playing through again pretty much showed everything was scripted. i played it twice so i guess that means something, but i find myself playing CS: S more than HL2 deathmatch which is rubbish IMO.
DooM 3 - what can i say? i havent even bothered to finish it. i got so bored with the running round in a dark room, monster popping out the closet and shooting imps 2-3 times with the shot gun. i also found it fairly difficult, and it does feel like id been playing forever, only to find there was a good weeks worth of levels still to go. lighing and atmosphere was really good, but most things just didnt look that high a resolution, compared to promo material. characters suits and clothing looked well fuzzy and blotchy, and that crazy scientist guy (good solid idea for a story i think not) had a hexagnol head!
how could ID get a game so wrong, it was repetitive drivel that i could of done not spending money on (but i did coz i wanted to show my 6800GT off) its a poor game IMO, with a few fancy grahics. again most things in this appeared plastic, but not as bad as Farcry. - havent bothered to finish this game, its complete rubbish
UT2004 - big fan of this, so guess this is biased, but even though theres plenty of game types, i find my self gettin bored quickly with anything but onslaught and assault. graphically even though its old technology compared to the above, i dont think they could of done anybetter, textures are crisp and colours are wonderful. physics arent OTT, everything just moves right, the game feels right. dont think epic can top this if they used the same game engine. UT2004 is almost perfect and it will be a keeper.
the last really good single palyer game i played, (UT is stil great) was Return to castle wolfenstein. i played that like there was no tomorrow, i didnt wanna turn it off, it was such a compelling game to play. infact, im gonna crack it open now and have a play
)makes alot of difference too compared to what I had before. Doom 3? I dunno. . .I'll let you know after I play it with a pair of night vision goggles on. The Battlefield series is still my personal favorite set of games. Not too much "run n gun" and blind bullet spraying. Takes some strategy and skill at many different aspects (driving, flying, aiming, shooting, bombing) and one guy can make a difference. I like the team oriented play though more than the "every guy for himself" deathmatch kind of games. The Battlefield graphics are not top notch but they are more than acceptable and the multidimensional aspects of gameplay, to me, more than make up for any graphical shortcomings. Now if only somebody would come up with a solution to the age-old problem that plagues all multiplayer games. . .SPAWN CAMPING!
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