… except, awkwardly enough, me writing this column, because pitting a huge blockbuster against a mediocre performer I have motive not to end it on an anticlimactic “Yeah, turns out the review scores are right!” note. Nobody has that sort of ulterior motive evaluating Of course PS3 fans want to love it and Xbox 360 fans want to dismiss it, but people who hate mindless fanboyism have to give it a fair shake lest they feel like pro–Xbox 360 partisans themselves. ’s positive qualities-and not just PS3 fans. Was actually the first Xbox 360 game I ever played, and one of the last games ever to scare me before I completely desensitized myself to horror games in the name of finishing was a critical and commercial success, so everyone will judge the sequel against its predecessor.
Isn’t a flagship anything it’s available on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Sony couldn’t afford another embarrassment after the debacle of the first Is a flagship, exclusive product for the PlayStation 3. Model of rendering human skin like shiny plastic, so all the characters without face-concealing helmets look like Barbie or Ken.ĭoesn’t do that-it may not be photorealistic, but at least it has virtual people and not virtual dolls. Has a visual failing, it’s the way it follows the The most attractive FPS of this generation. Has some of the prettiest, most detailed visuals I’ve ever seen in a video game, an order of magnitude beyond what’s come before, but if I hadn’t just played Graphics-wise, both are very good-looking, using head bob, motion blur, limited anti-aliasing, and a variety of graphic filters to supplement the normal array of detailed models, textures, et al. But before I get into that, let’s look at the two games under discussion.Īre the newest of first-person shooters. Investigating this more closely, I came upon a tangential and altogether more interesting issue: While I wasn’t paying attention, the single-player first-person shooter seems to have split into two distinct genres. , or is the reception difference a function of external factors? I honestly had no answer in mind when the question struck me-is I should note this occurred to me before I’d played either game.
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