8/10 was about right, and the immersion is ruined by those AI problems. People will cry and yell and accuse people of being wrong and under the employ of another company/developer. But in the end its about how the person perceives it, some may not notice the immersion breaking stuff as they may enjoy the eye candy in the game, but others would. Like I did, was annoying that enemies would walk by and the person with you may as well had a megaphone and is yelling while talking... enemies keep walking by.
I find it funny the "eye candy" brigade is out on force with this title, the game is beautiful and the engine is designed well to work for most people, but the kids of today are more interested in looks than content. And they are the reason why games are short but nice to look at. Kids need to realize what it takes for a game to be hugely successful and what is involved in doing so, pushing your GPU till it is smoking is not the ideal path.
And lets not forget the "It is not Rapture, so this game is rubbish" gang, Bioshock Infinite was never meant to be about Rapture it is an entirely different era for a start and obviously different characters.
To be honest kids/people today moan for the sake of moaning and its clear from some reviews they haven't even played the game let along buy it.
Years ago people would cry for an online authentication system because they wanted to "preserve their media", it was on various sites like fileforums etc.
When they finally got it, and then realised that its not so easy to get free copies of games now, Assassin's Creed 2 was the first obstacle the warez peeps had and had to wait a month for their game.
And yes warez users are the people who wanted this type of protection years ago... shame for them that it didn't turn out as expected.
Yes this game is bugged, but most titles are on release, a bit of patience will reward people. But again people have a right to a full refund of course.
Remember people, it is not up to EA to say no to a refund if they don't deliver what they promised and people in most of Europe do have a 2 week period of getting back monies you feel are owed to you for a non-working title.
Yes the servers are obviously the main concern at the moment, but thats mostly because of the sheer numbers of people playing, server upgrades will come. So I would say to people to be patient. But if you aren't patient and want to join the masses of people who cried for this type of DRM in the first place, then go ahead and claim your money back within your 2 week grace period.
Actually the 360 is more than capable, and if you know some ASM with experience, you can disassemble their binary to see that square actually forced a limit of hardware limitations. Lets face it the 360's GPU, although not amazing in hardware bonus's, the extra 256mb GDDR3 and the high amount of streaming available could easily easily handle FFXIII vertexing etc. I wouldn't call a PS3 a beast either, in terms of current PC gaming its actually lacking now. Now we have Ferma tech on Geforce cards with the GF470 and 480, now imagine a PS4 with one of those, and a hexcore CPU with multi-threading, sata3 HDD (on AHCI mode so no more hours to copy data), etc. Then you would have a beast.
This is a tough choice, the X360 has an ATI Xenos GPU 512MB GDDR3- similar to an ATI x1900 (yes its not that great) vs the PS3's modified GF7600 256MB GDDR3 (Yeah not that great either). ATI GPU's have more streaming capabilities whereas the GF7600 has better hardware support for Physx effects etc. In terms of graphic abilities the GF7600 does come out on top, but that sweet extra 256MB on the 360 makes it faster. But the real power is the CPU's. The 360 uses an Intel Xenon CPU, which is a triple core but with an advantage each core can handle two threads at a time, making it in theory a hexcore (six core). But the winner here is the PS3's CPU, with 8 PSE's nice. (Faster and more stable on the slimline models). So overall in terms of graphics the 360 wins, but on overall performance the PS3. As for the FFXIII comment, the 360 was more than capable of handling the game, but since Square is more friendly with Sony (in terms of exclusives in the past), Sony would have made a deal to entice new players to the PS3 platform than the 360's. Clever move, a bit underhanded but hey its business. EDIT: I see the 360 fanboi's decided to mark my post down, sad.. especially when I said the 360 has better performance. Well done. Or is it that the information I provided was correct and they dont want others to see it? The usual suspects who think they know more, but in retrospect know absolutely nothing >.
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