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That's what IGN UK says about those two versions:
http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/869/869381p5.html
http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/869/869381p5.html
That is the same thing the regular IGN (American?) review says.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/869/869381p5.html
BTW, does it bother anybody the IGN review seems to be the only one out? I'm just wondering if they were allowed to debut their review early because it was so positive. Similar to ubisoft waiving NDA for 9+ reviews.
Nah. IGN paid for exclusive rights. You can see why - they get massive traffic for being the first. They get exclusive rights for a lot of previews/reviews.
I'm very impressed that all the voices (must be hours of dialogue), seperate TV channels, internet sites, videos etc. fit into 7GB. Very impressive. What's more impressive, is that reviewers haven't mentioned any obvious repetition of dialogue (something which killed Assassin's Creed for me).
Can't believe people might be upset over some pop-in - a game without pop-in (and huge draw distance) is very rare these days...and to have an open world game without pop-in would be nigh on impossible until ps4/720. As long as it has a nice fade effect I'm a happy chappy.
No, seriously media does not pay to get the coverage.
Whatever the case, the official embargo lifts Sunday. So IGN did something to be allowed the first review, right? I mean it could also be just a favor to the most important online reviewers, but who knows?
Usually the publisher will shop the exclusive around, trying to see what the outlets are giving it and make their decision based on whichever one gives it the highest review. Some outlets stick to their guns and either dont reveal the score at all, or give a range of what the score is.
My guess is IGN just flat out said it was getting a 10, and that made up Take 2's mind. Undoubtedly if they were to give it a lower score that would decrease their chance for getting the exclusive review, so you really have to take such exclusive reviews with a grain of salt. Especially when the game gets a 10 in the graphics department.
My guess is IGN just flat out said it was getting a 10, and that made up Take 2's mind. Undoubtedly if they were to give it a lower score that would decrease their chance for getting the exclusive review, so you really have to take such exclusive reviews with a grain of salt. Especially when the game gets a 10 in the graphics department.
Just wait, there will be comparisons on the sound as well, did they 360 have to do with 64kbit AAC while the PS3 got 128kbit
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Makes sense to me. There really is no reason for either the PS3 or 360 to be faster. Heck, even the HDD shouldn't make a big difference in this game if the HDD-less code is written well.Ok, now I'm totally confused
A hard-drive has no reason to reduce pop-in unless you are streaming bandwidth bound, e.g. travelling at 300 mph through a dense city. This myth keeps getting repeated again and again. Reduced loading times makes sense, as the initial dataset is large and must be accessed ASAP, but not pop-in unless the data is poorly organized on the disc.
Even with caching there is little basis for a harddrive to make a big difference. You can't get data in time for the current frame even with a harddrive, so you need to predict a few frames ahead. Making that prediction 50 frames ahead to accomodate an optical drive is really no harder.
Maybe they allocated idle SPEs for decompression of read-ahead data?
What happens if the "look ahead" is not far enough when the action gets heavy ? What kind of issues would the viewer see ?
I don't think you need to be traveling at 300mph, you just need to do something different to what the game engine expect you to do to cause pop in.
I agree with you I think poorly organized data is probably the main culprit of pop in. Fragmented hard drive or not having enough space on the DVD to organize your data optimally is probably the main cause of pop in. Still fragmented hard drive can be defrag, if you run out of space on DVD to organized your data the solutions are less desirable.
I'm still waiting for some members comparision, I remember site pretending the ps3 rendition of DMC4 being better than the 360 one...
We know that the 360 version is 720P AAx2, I'm not sure that the ps3 can do better.
For pop up it sound strange to me too due to memory architecture of the 360.
For me something doesn't add up.
We know that the 360 version is 720P AAx2, I'm not sure that the ps3 can do better.
For pop up it sound strange to me too due to memory architecture of the 360.
For me something doesn't add up.
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Thats, apparently a gif of the 360's pop up. I say apparently, because I didn't make it.
YOP, hugly... really hugly.
I posted more about that on the "multi platform devs etc." thread.
As I am not sure this is the good place to discuss the issue
(my bad between)EDIT I've seen your response (but don't want to post something that could be a PM), you're right but may be it could be a good idea to chose one of these threads for coherency, may be mods should give their opinion on that matter, no?
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Betanumerical
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YOP, hugly... really hugly.
I posted more about that on the "multi platform devs etc." thread.
As I am not sure this is the good place to discuss the issue
Well it is kinda related to both threads.
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