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[nofriendo]

fancy

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/last-one-standing/halo-sweeps/halo-sweeps.html

 

[the departed]

mindd...meltedr...
now i remember y eye love halo.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

I'm beyond shit at this game.

 

[Stan Bowles]

Best. Fun. Ever.

 

[pete]

i played Bioshock for... 5 hours (6?) last night. my eyes hurt.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Is there any crossplatform reviews of fifa yet? I can't find one.

 

[Johnnyc]

Has the PS3 demo of PES come out yet, Lefty?

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Has the PS3 demo of PES come out yet, Lefty?

Its out this afternoon apparently. Expect a rigourous comparison.

 

[Johnnyc]

Good stuff.

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Not out till next Thursday I heard..
Do let us know what you make of it.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

My guess is theres gonna be nothing between them.

 

[CitySickness]

Right, had a decent 2 hours or so of Assassin's Creed yesterday. They better get their optimise on, because there are still some serious framerate dips and texture pop-in issues that might mean they've been a bit over-ambitious with the engine. Beyond the technical stuff, the game's looking like it'll be fun. The skulking around pretending to be a monk stuff is handled well, but unlike most stealth games it's not a complete pain in the hole if you get rumbled for knifing a randomer in the main square or something. The non-stealthy swordfights are fluid - mostly a matter of defence and timing one-button counter moves - and pretty satisfying when you're skewering a bunch of guards. If you're being particularly badass, the enemy morale system kicks in and the remaining guards will scarper. At which point, if you're any kind of man, you'll chase them down and perforate their spines.

Otherwise, if you don't fancy standing your ground, you can do some free-running around the rooftops, which takes a bit of getting used to (much of the controls in the game are based around holding buttons down rather than constant button presses) and handles well, even if it does end up feeling more like constant leaps of faith rather than precision platforming. The geography of the streets is set up as a parkour playground, with "safe-houses" dotted around the map where you can restore your anonymity if you're outside of the guards' line of sight. NPC crowds act as obstacles and traps.

There's also some sci-fi bullshit floating around various bits of the game (monitor glitches, Matrix-style typography) which Ubisoft wouldn't answer any questions about. My feeling is that they could have left it as a game with an ancient holy land setting and everyone would have been just fine with that, but maybe they'll pull off some interesting plot shenanigans. Voice acting was tolerable, but the crowd dialog sounds canned and seems to repeat a lot.

 

[nofriendo]

how did ya get your hands on it ?

 

[Stan Bowles]

Yeah there's meant to be some kind of DNA/time travel thing going on, one of the actors accidentally spilt those beans months ago. Though Ubisoft have always denied it.

Sounds like it might be delayed then?

 

[pete]

how did ya get your hands on it ?

time travel

 

[CitySickness]

The Montreal developers were over in London yesterday to demo the game to press.

 

[CitySickness]

Sounds like it might be delayed then?

They seemed pretty confident it would be out at the end of November, as will Haze. I dunno, the build I played was about a month old, if they do some tightening up of the engine I'd say it'll run just fine.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Haze is PS3 only though right? Did you play that?

 

[CitySickness]

Haze is PS3 only though right? Did you play that?

Nope. Dying to have a go though.

EDIT: oh yeah, and it is a PS3 exclusive.

 

[nofriendo]

Nope. Dying to have a go though.

EDIT: oh yeah, and it is a PS3 exclusive.

thought it was a release date exclusive like ut3. or has that changed