Lucas Arts has announced that although they are providing Force Unleashed for new consoles and semi-antiques alike, they will not be making a PC version of their soon to be popular game.
Lucas Arts states its reasons for the decision:
If we made the game for high-end PCs, someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn”t be the same game. On the other hand if we made that game for as many people as possible then it”s not taking advantage of what those $4,000 systems can do.
I own exactly zero guns, I would not exactly call myself an anti-gun person, I have never felt the need. Still, if shooting stuff is your thing, you will be well aware that cleaning and maintaining your guns can take a lot of time and effort. If you have enough weapons to outfit a small army, I can imagine that it would be a real chore. Luckily, a solution comes in the form of the F636HT Heavy Duty Long Gun & Handgun System. The F636HT will allow you to automatically clean up to 10 handguns or 4 long guns.
The price my make some people gasp, it is $7100 from SonicsOnline
One of the ways that I like to unwind after a hard day at the grindstone is with a short Call of Duty 4 session each day. I try to limit my time, but spend a few hours at war on Sunday. In the few weeks I have owned the game, I managed to work my way up to within 300 experience points of Brigadier General. Not bad for about twenty-five hours of play. Then the inexplicable happened, my profile vanished. All of the challenges, experience, rank, gone like they had never existed. It was like someone had flipped a reset switch on my game.
I’ve scoured the boards and found little more than rumors. Asking people in game produced predictably mature responses, which I shall not repeat lest I offend those with more delicate sensibilities than my own. There were a couple of people that new someone that lost their COD4 profile, well I am telling you this phenomenon is real and it sucks. I don’t know what caused it, I didn’t have a backup and I have to say, I feel much more inclined to turn my attention to a different game. I love COD4, but the thought of working my way up through the ranks again is nothing short of nauseating. Fix it Activision.
I have spent the last couple of weeks with a store bought copy of Call of Duty 4 and I have to say that it is without a doubt the greatest first person shooter I have ever played. Single player was a lot of fun, but once I switched it onto multi-player the party began. There are a lot of different multi-player modes. Search and Destroy is perhaps the most challenging, with one life only, die and you are out. Free-For-All mode is a whole lot of fun and some of the other game types are too. I have spent most of my time in free for all mode as I wanted to complete the different weapons challenges. You get a lot more kills in free for all, so you can clear the challenges faster.
Like most online shooters, you are awarded different guns as you progress through the ranks. With COD4 there are a lot of guns and a lot of different rewards. An interesting addition to this game is the “perks.” Perks are different advantages that you are awarded as you advance through the ranks. By far the most useful is Martyrdom, where you drop a live grenade every time you die. About half the time, you will take someone with you. As you rise through the ranks, get more powerful weapons and develop better skills, however, there are other perks that make things interesting. A bandoleer gives you extra ammunition and double tap doubles your rate of fire. Before you know it you have your gun kitted out with add ons, you have tweaked your perks just so and you have developed your skills to the point that you are an unstoppable fragging machine. (more…)
With my new computer setup, I am now able to enjoy some exciting modern gaming. I recently made two computer game purchases, Call of Duty 4 and the long awaited Crysis. I spent a good part of the last 24 hours deeply engrossed in both of them and decided, rather than putting up two reviews, I would do a head to head. First up, they are both really good games. Much of yesterday was spent improving my single player techniques. Today was devoted to multiplayer. The system specs that I used for the test are below:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (not overclocked)
2GB RAM
Leadtek GeForce 8800GTX
WD 7200 RPM HDD 500GB with 16MB Cache
The system was enough to play each game on its optimum settings. Though there would be room for improvement in the anti-aliasing department with SLI, all my settings ran on Very High. Both games looked exceptional, but it was with the look and feel that I believe the winner of the two came out. (more…)
