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[Azrael Strife]

That's certainly good news I love Sam & Max, one of the old LucasArts games, when they *really* knew how to make games

[Slaughter]

Yeah, I miss those times! Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle...

[Azrael Strife]

Yep, I miss it too, all great games Maniac Mansion, Space Quest (They said they were makign Space Quest 7 like 6 years ago!!!)...

[Gungadin]

To anyone who liked Max Payne and GTA 3: Get Total Overdose, a totally BRILLIANT mixture of the two genres. www.totaloverdose.com There's a demo if you google for it.

Read my review of the game here: http://forums.eidosg...ead.php?t=53842

Score: 8.5-9.0

[Slaughter]

I had never heard of this one before, but I like both games you mention a lot. I'll read through your review when I'm not at school. Thanks for the heads up!

[Gungadin]

So Slaughter, did you ever get to check out Total Overdose?

[Slaughter]

Sorry, no time yet. I'll keep it in mind, but with San Andreas, Winter Assault and Aftershock on the agenda in addition to real life and this site it has to wait a little.

I read your review however, and it was very nice! I think I may find some of the bad sides and bugs more annoying than you did, but I definitively would like to give the game a go.

[Azrael Strife]

I am enjoying Prince of Persia: Warrior Within very much. I played Sands of Time and found it surprisingly well made, but still lacked something. But this, is a remarkable game, it's one of the few games I can say it's beautifully made. The music fits right, the game is made to give the feeling you are in a movie, because of the cam movements, the music in key points, the enemy's voices, etc. The environments are that, beautiful, I love them. Also, the combat system is very extense, you have a lot of options about what you can do to a certain enemy, I'm still finding new combinations and seeing new movements, it's very fun to watch a fight, even with a single weak monster. And the engine, man that engine can make a game go! PoP has some of the best graphics I've ever seen, and yet it runs smoothly as if it didn't have those very detailed graphics at all! I mean, I am also playing Far Cry and have lowered the graphics to run it ok, and yet it runs slow, and PoP has far better graphics than FarCry and it runs 10 times faster and smoothly. This engine seems as good as Doom 3's engine. Granted, I know nothign of game engines, but if they have better graphics, and run faster, they are good, I assume?
Anyway, if you have the chance, give Warrior WIthin a chance

[Gimli]

Sands of Time was awesome, I didn't get Warrior Within yet. It seems very nice too (judging by the demo).

As for Far Cry: what gfx card do you have? There's this strange thing with the game, that on my Radeon 9600 Pro, I can crank it up to full details. For the first minute or so, it will stutter, and then suddenly, it starts "flying", with no stuttering at all, and it looks fantastic.

[Azrael Strife]

GForce FX5200. I know what you mean, I'm inside a battleship right now, and in certain rooms the game seems to slow down dramatically, whereas on the island it was moving ok...

[Gimli]

Well, I heard from some developers FX 5200 is poo. And I mean  really horrible. Too bad, as it's quite a nice game, especially later on. I'd suggest a new card, but maybe you can't get one. If you can, though, by all means do. It seems nVidia is better at the moment, so go for that.

[Matri]

I am absolutely astounded at Sands of Time's and Warrior Within's  engine. If you haven't noticed it already, it takes approximately 1 minute from desktop through the menu and into the game itself. Factor in a somewhat high polygon counts for the models, particle effects for the sands, and Havoc physics and transparencies for all the clothes that are surprisingly present in large numbers in ruins.

Name just one other game that comes even close to this level of achievement.

And just so you know, my system specs are at least 4 years old:
- 1.8GHz Pentium-4
- 256MB RAM
- 64MB GeForce3 Ti200
- Creative SoundBlaster Live! Value (Yes, the cheaper one )
- Windows XP-SP1 (Gonna wait a while longer before switching over to SP2)

[Azrael Strife]

Gimli, on 12th October 2005, 9:03pm, said:

Well, I heard from some developers FX 5200 is poo. And I mean  really horrible. Too bad, as it's quite a nice game, especially later on. I'd suggest a new card, but maybe you can't get one. If you can, though, by all means do. It seems nVidia is better at the moment, so go for that.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

GeForce is nVidia. And that seems to be a matter of opinions, as I've heard that ATIs are crappy, as well as I've heard that nVidias are crappy too, so I went for nVidia which is a brand I know the best  

I agree with you, Matri, it barely takes time to load  

[Slaughter]

PoP was beautiful, but it took me about 10 minutes to get bored with it. That's about how much of a chance I gave it however, so maybe I should try again

As for the Far Cry engine, it is one of the best graphics engines ever created. It may not have as fine details as PoP, but you have to keep one thing in mind - DRAW DISTANCE. In Far Cry you can stand at the top point of an island and snipe someone down at the beach. All FPS game struggle with this - in Doom 3 there aren't much outdoor at all from what I understand, and that engine is HEAVY. So really, start looking around you with a sniper rifle in Far Cry, and you'll start appreciating that fantastic engine!

[Azrael Strife]

Yeah, PoP can get boring, especially when you just don't know where to jump next or where to grab onto to not fall and die, that's particularly annoying.
I've yet got to try Far Cry more, so far inside the battleship the engine seems to studder at some points, can't wait to get out of there, worked much better on the island...

[Matri]

The PoP Prince (5 games and 10+ years and he still has no name!) can't possibly be human. I mean, look at the moves he can do, especially in WW!

[Azrael Strife]

Well, he's supposed to have magic, maybe that's helping him

[Gimli]

Azrael said:

GeForce is nVidia. And that seems to be a matter of opinions, as I've heard that ATIs are crappy, as well as I've heard that nVidias are crappy too, so I went for nVidia which is a brand I know the best smile.gif

I agree with you, Matri, it barely takes time to load grin.gif

I think you misunderstood me (or maybe I'm sleepy). I've got nothing against nVidia, I just heard from some respected developers (Croteam of Serious Sam being one of them), that the FX 5200 is a bad card. I'm not some fan of ATi, I choose the card that has the optimal money/performance ratio for me, I had nVidia cards too, my GF 2 MX served me well.

I bet there were some bad ATi's cards, i just noticed this one because it was recently that a lot of people complained.

Also, often certain games perform better on ATi's cards and certain on nVidia's. That's the way developers program them. IIRC Doom 3 was made for nVidia's cards more, while Far Cry was made more for ATi's cards.

[Azrael Strife]

Gimli, on 13th October 2005, 11:48pm, said:

Azrael said:

GeForce is nVidia. And that seems to be a matter of opinions, as I've heard that ATIs are crappy, as well as I've heard that nVidias are crappy too, so I went for nVidia which is a brand I know the best smile.gif

I agree with you, Matri, it barely takes time to load grin.gif

I think you misunderstood me (or maybe I'm sleepy). I've got nothing against nVidia, I just heard from some respected developers (Croteam of Serious Sam being one of them), that the FX 5200 is a bad card. I'm not some fan of ATi, I choose the card that has the optimal money/performance ratio for me, I had nVidia cards too, my GF 2 MX served me well.

I bet there were some bad ATi's cards, i just noticed this one because it was recently that a lot of people complained.

Also, often certain games perform better on ATi's cards and certain on nVidia's. That's the way developers program them. IIRC Doom 3 was made for nVidia's cards more, while Far Cry was made more for ATi's cards.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No idea, what I meant is that when I got this card, I had to decide between the FX5200 and the ATI equivalent, and did some research, and found very contradictory opinions on the matter, I just went for nVidia cause I knew it better than ATI and I guess I let the name make me buy the card

[Matri]

Hmm, I'm not 100% sure but I believe the reason for all the complaints against the FX5200 is the utter and total lack of Pixel Shader support.

Yes, I know it's a high-end card, but it's missing that important function.