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Hojima

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Anyone seen the previews? Looks very awesome and graphically good for 360 and PS3(if there was a preview for the PS3 version). :biggrin:
 
I'm looking forward to it. I'm a little wary about the quality since they've postponed the demo until after the game's release -- are they hiding something? Still, those videos look nice. I'll probably pick it up no matter what, but the reviews will determine if I get it near launch or wait until it's in the bargain bin.
 
some of the best games ive played didnt have demos till after the release.
as for this game, ive been anticipating it since the day i touched a 360. I cannot wait. i have it reserved! the 25th cant come soon enough...then again the 26th has overlord so its gonna be a rough time gaming lol
 
From the Creators of Chronicles of Riddick (Escape from Butcher Bay) THese graphics are very nice outdone... Oh Can't wait to control those Demon looking Snakes! Plus Multiplayer? Though sad that multiplayer can only handle 4 people
 
I found out about this game from downloading the theme ^^ Just d/l the preview for it yesterday, gotta say it's lookin pretty sick
 
The game looks sick. I was impressed with the video were they show close combat kills. I guess it auto aims at close combat once you line it up. Get some cool looking kills. Not just regular headshot stuff. And the actual darkness abilities... omg..
 
Okay, who else picked this up? I'm not very far into it yet, but I'm loving what I've played so far. Ripping enemies and devouring their hearts is a real blast.

I'm amused by the videos playing all over the place. At some point I'm going to have to stick around in Jenny's apartment to watch the entire To Kill a Mockingbird. There's something awesome about having an entire movie embedded like that.
 
So yeah, this game is freakin sick.... I am in love with it so far. I know the reviews say it gets boring by later on but meh. And the MP sucks hard. Single player is freaking hot.
 
yeah game is gorgeous, specially on 360. much sharper, nice to have the rumble too. i guess in the review only thing ps3 got we didnt was a few extra cartoons on the t.v., so we are not at loss i guess, better looking is better than stuff ill probly never actually sit there and watch XD
Devouring human hearts?! YES PLZ!! and i LOVE calling random crap on the phone XD

"If your being stabbed, Press 5, If your stabbing someone, press 6" classic!
 
From what I hear dial 555-game on a phone in the subway to unlock a minion.
 
It really just unlocks an outfit for your beserker darkling. It was a gamestop exclusive and the phone actually answers Thank you for calling gamestop.
 
The game is alright but I can't help but feel the gunplay is really on the boring side. The first darkness power I got is kind of hard to use since one shot and it is forced back... coupled with them always seeing you before you can kill them with it. Overall a bit disappointed. The little quirks are nice though, like the details they stick in, kind of gives me a Max Payne feeling. Just wish they had as nice gunplay as Max Payne.

I will probably sell this back to Gamestop after I finish the singleplayer to help me pay for Ninja Gaiden Sigma.

As for graphic differences between PS3 and 360 mode, I can't comment on differences having only seen the PS3 version in action but the PS3 game is extremely goodlooking. Like always with high def games, it usually looks a lot better in action on your high def TV than pictures of it look. (Except Forza which strangely looks better in pics than in action).

I'd imagine if you were basing your differences off of seeing the 360 version first hand and the PS3 version off pics on the net, well, you know.
 
nah, my bro has it on ps3. watched him play for about a half hour lastnight before i went home. Doesnt look bad, just think 360 looks sharper, most reviews say the same.
 
PS3 games seem to be bright and 360 games seem to be sharper as a default. Of course you can turn up 360 brightness and PS3 sharpness pretty easily by playing with TV settings if desired. Of course no TV button is going to make the gun play up to the standard I'm accustomed to. I mean seriously... left trigger and right trigger? No Grenades? They could have easily combined the L1 and R1 buttons into one button, they're pressure sensitive... holding it down slightly for whipping the tentacles and press down all the way to use power = voila, a button for lobbing grenades.
 
Forza 2 looks just fine in motion, and 60fps.
 
Forza does look good in motion, but when you see screen captures of it they almost pass off as real. When you're playing the game it is much more obviously not real. It's like the textures are mindblowing but the engine is only above average.

Motorstorm on the otherhand is kind of like the opposite. If you see stillshots the textures of the cars aren't anything special(though the scenery is amazing). Playing it firsthand, the way the game engine works, the physics, makes it seem very real, when ironically the gameplay is arcade-like as opposed to Forza that's a simulator.

Hope that explains it. Forza is an great looking game, just the screenshots make it look a little better than it really is.

Just to show what I mean...
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I looked at this and I thought to myself, "Holy shit! If someone told me that was a picture of a real car, I'd have believed that."

Motorstorm on the other hand...

motorstorm1.jpg


Looks great but not real.

This isn't at all a rip on Forza, rather a compliment to their textures that it's one of the few games that actually looks better as a screenshot than in play.
 
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I hear you. Screen shots in race games are always kinda odd tho. Any pic you take you dont play the game from that view lol. In forza, motorstorm and any other game you just see the back of the car.. So any SS of a race game is odd to me lol. One reason for forza pics being so impressive tho fire is they have these options in camera mode. Like focus on an object with Xbutton(does not need to be car) and all else around it is blurred, like in motion. Motorstorm is just a freezeframe on pause for its pics. Btw Dirt is very impressive in both these departments lol.
 
Well yeah, Microsoft is gunning for Grand Turismo not Motorstorm with Forza. So they're going to try and be able to show screenshots that can compare to the GT: HD that you can get off PSN. The biggest thing ever to buff up the visuals is the replay in which GT renders your race after the fact to look absolutely real. I mean... if you were watching it and you didn't know it was a game, you'd think you were watching a real race... but that's not how it looks when you're actually racing, but in spitting out media Forza has to compete with that which'll be coming out as GT5 at some point and possibly do that rendered shit in real time.
 
It will be 2nd Gen PS3 game GTurismo against 3rd gen 360game Forza3;; But i am fan of both =D

Edit: only because time of release on these 2.
 
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