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This thread has been linked to the game 'The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay'.
Potty mouthed, extremely violent and damn good fun. Vin Desil even manages to create a likeable character. Graphics are very similar to doom3 (Plastic people, which seems to be an opengl normal mapping problem) but without the flash lighting.
Nice introductory tutorial too. Very unexpected.
Anyone buying it, please note NOT to use the 2.00++ shader setting.
On a 3500 64 and a 6800gt golden sample, I was getting jerky visuals at 800x600. Dropping to the 2.0 shader gets 60+ fps in 1280 with fukll antistropic filtering.
Good stuff.
On a side note, am I the only one who reads "Xzibit" and the brain thinks "biscuit" and not "exhibit". weird.
Nice introductory tutorial too. Very unexpected.
Anyone buying it, please note NOT to use the 2.00++ shader setting.
On a 3500 64 and a 6800gt golden sample, I was getting jerky visuals at 800x600. Dropping to the 2.0 shader gets 60+ fps in 1280 with fukll antistropic filtering.
Good stuff.
On a side note, am I the only one who reads "Xzibit" and the brain thinks "biscuit" and not "exhibit". weird.
Potty mouthed, extremely violent and damn good fun. Vin Desil even manages to create a likeable character. Graphics are very similar to doom3 (Plastic people, which seems to be an opengl normal mapping problem) but without the flash lighting.
Nice introductory tutorial too. Very unexpected.
Anyone buying it, please note NOT to use the 2.00++ shader setting.
On a 3500 64 and a 6800gt golden sample, I was getting jerky visuals at 800x600. Dropping to the 2.0 shader gets 60+ fps in 1280 with fukll antistropic filtering.
Good stuff.
On a side note, am I the only one who reads "Xzibit" and the brain thinks "biscuit" and not "exhibit". weird.
Nice introductory tutorial too. Very unexpected.
Anyone buying it, please note NOT to use the 2.00++ shader setting.
On a 3500 64 and a 6800gt golden sample, I was getting jerky visuals at 800x600. Dropping to the 2.0 shader gets 60+ fps in 1280 with fukll antistropic filtering.
Good stuff.
On a side note, am I the only one who reads "Xzibit" and the brain thinks "biscuit" and not "exhibit". weird.
I actually like Vin Diesel after playing the game on Xbox.
Pandaemonium wrote:
> On a side note, am I the only one who reads "Xzibit" and
> the brain thinks "biscuit" and not "exhibit".
> weird.
I read it as ex-e-bit, a stupid name, but a decent voice over effort.
The game actually manages to be far better than the movie, a $100million dollar production that just barely scrapped through at the box office. Says allot about gaming, Butcher Bay didn't have half of that budget, got rave reviews and sold so many copies that it's getting a sequel before the movies it‘s based on.
Too short though, and not allot to go back to once it's completed. Good while it lasts though.
> On a side note, am I the only one who reads "Xzibit" and
> the brain thinks "biscuit" and not "exhibit".
> weird.
I read it as ex-e-bit, a stupid name, but a decent voice over effort.
The game actually manages to be far better than the movie, a $100million dollar production that just barely scrapped through at the box office. Says allot about gaming, Butcher Bay didn't have half of that budget, got rave reviews and sold so many copies that it's getting a sequel before the movies it‘s based on.
Too short though, and not allot to go back to once it's completed. Good while it lasts though.
cipro wrote:
> Too short though, and not allot to go back to once it's completed.
> Good while it lasts though.
Looking forward to the developers commentary to be honest.
> Too short though, and not allot to go back to once it's completed.
> Good while it lasts though.
Looking forward to the developers commentary to be honest.
Cycloon wrote:
> I actually like Vin Diesel after playing the game on Xbox.
Heh! Same.
Best Xbox game and behind Half-life 2 my favourite game of the year.
> I actually like Vin Diesel after playing the game on Xbox.
Heh! Same.
Best Xbox game and behind Half-life 2 my favourite game of the year.
One of my favourites for sure, the knife fights are particularly entertaining.
i liked it but yeah it was a bit short really
I liked it, i'd say i was entertained for most of the game more so than most of HL2. Towards the end of the game i got a bit annouyed it started to feel like a console game when the rest of it was pretty nice and PC-esc.
Pandaemonium wrote:
> cipro wrote:
> Too short though, and not allot to go back to once it's completed.
> Good while it lasts though.
>
> Looking forward to the developers commentary to be honest.
Darn, I forgot about that, I was going to listen to it but have since taken the game off my PC to make room for newer releases.
The hand to hand combat system was implemented quite well to say such a mechanism hasn't quite left an impression in the past. Will be interesting to see if next years F.E.A.R. can better it seeing as it's promising the same style of fighting.
> cipro wrote:
> Too short though, and not allot to go back to once it's completed.
> Good while it lasts though.
>
> Looking forward to the developers commentary to be honest.
Darn, I forgot about that, I was going to listen to it but have since taken the game off my PC to make room for newer releases.
The hand to hand combat system was implemented quite well to say such a mechanism hasn't quite left an impression in the past. Will be interesting to see if next years F.E.A.R. can better it seeing as it's promising the same style of fighting.