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It doesn’t matter how powerful your PC is, Just Cause will never look as good as it does on the Xbox 360. Just take a look at the video I posted to YouTube below:
It’s almost as if all the shadows and HDR effects have been ripped out of the game. Why short change PC players like this? The option to enable the features should at least be available to those will powerful enough hardware. Added to this the lack of native widescreen support makes this look more and more like a direct port on the Xbox (not 360) version. Bad move Eidos, haven’t you ever heard of XNA?
Early this morning brought about the colossal announcement from Sony that the PS3 wouldn’t be hitting Europe untill March 07. Many people claimed to have seen this coming due to the lack of PS3s actually being manufactured but even they must be shocked by this amazing blunder.
By all accounts this should allow Microsoft and Nintendo to clean up this Christmas giving them a serious lead on their much delayed rival. The console business was always going to be a tough nut for Microsoft to crack but Sony apear to be doing everything in their power to give them a huge piece of the pie, all on a silver platter at that.
Looking further into today’s news and it looks like this won’t only affect Europe. Japan and the US will only be getting 100,000 and 400,000 units respectively, much less than the 2 million vaunted by Sony.
And why oh why are Sony floundering so badly right now?
Blu-ray.
If they hadn’t bet the company on their new format all the consoles and more would have been ready for launch. Infact they could have launched earlier in the year. Better than that it would have cost half as much!
Is it really worth risking it all on a new media format?
No, but they think it is.
And in an era of broadband and high capacity hard drives no one but Sony understands why.
Apart from TV’s absense over the last few weeks there have also been a distinct lack of games. The games industry is the worst offender for neglecting summer even when a large number of their customers are on their holidays looking for something to burn time on.
At the start of this summer it was a great oppertunity for me to catch up on some of things I missed over the last year. I nailed Oblivion, spent too much time with Civ4, finished Halo 2 at last and got back into Guitar Hero (expert mode baby!) after a long time away. All those weeks ago I didn’t think I would run out of things to play but I have and it’s very weird feeling after being so behind all year.
One look towards the Christmas schedule reveals a mass of games waiting to be played but all coming out within weeks of each other. Lets see what kind of ridiculous list I can come up with:
- Lego Star Wars 2
- Just Cause
- Company of Heroes
- Splinter Cell: Double Agent
- Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
- Gears of War
- Neverwinter Nights 2
Ouch!
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