Looking past all of the trolling and flaming going on in this thread, I think this is a solid concept. Competitively speaking, anyone considering buying a current generation platform b/c of RE5 would surely pick up the 360 version. You get the console, two games, a 60GB hard drive and HDMI cable, all for $400. What's not to like?
Edit: I read somewhere that it was going to be a 60GB, but if 120GB is true, all the more reason to pick it up.
I finished the 360 version last night, and have to say I didn't enjoy it as much as the original. Project Origin isn't terrible, but it's not great, either. Let's face it, the AI sucks. I mean, it really sucks. There's no stealth ability, whatsover, and to me, this is the biggest draw back. The fact that guards see you the minute they appear on the screen, regardless of how stealthy you try to be, and regardless of whether or not you have the flashlight turned on, is a real problem. I can live with the rest of the AI issues, but this is the biddest drawback. It sucks the fun right out of the game for me.
Another issue I have is with grenades. They appear to have no shrapnel when they explode, so they're essentially useless unless it explodes right next to your target. Rent before you buy!
EDGE wrote: "Initial indications are that Solid Touch will focus on the characters and narrative from Metal Gear solid 4: Guns of the Patriots."
Is this a video game or an interactive comic book?
And what about price points?
My prediction isn't as sugar coated and wrapped in pretty iPhone-branded wrapping paper as Apple would like it to be. Apple continues to dance this dance and make unrealistic promises to struggling publishers. Apple's quite good at the PR game, but that's not always a good thing.
Publishers are aching for cash right now, but instead of putting 100% into the only real profit-producing baskets, they're foolishly putting development time and money into a mobile platform that has yet to produce significant revenues from any single app (and I'm not talking about a few hundred thousand bucks, I'm talking the kind of cash that a publisher would need to produce in order to justify the millions of dollars it would put into development and marketing titles on the iPhone/Touch platforms). My biggest concern is that the industry will continue to shrink until it implodes and we all see another industry crash similar to what we experienced in the 80's. It may not turn into an industry depression, but it could be damn close. I would like to be proven wrong. I would like to be eating crow a year from now, but something tells me this won't be the case.
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Looking past all of the trolling and flaming going on in this thread, I think this is a solid concept. Competitively speaking, anyone considering buying a current generation platform b/c of RE5 would surely pick up the 360 version. You get the console, two games, a 60GB hard drive and HDMI cable, all for $400. What's not to like?
Edit: I read somewhere that it was going to be a 60GB, but if 120GB is true, all the more reason to pick it up.
I finished the 360 version last night, and have to say I didn't enjoy it as much as the original. Project Origin isn't terrible, but it's not great, either. Let's face it, the AI sucks. I mean, it really sucks. There's no stealth ability, whatsover, and to me, this is the biggest draw back. The fact that guards see you the minute they appear on the screen, regardless of how stealthy you try to be, and regardless of whether or not you have the flashlight turned on, is a real problem. I can live with the rest of the AI issues, but this is the biddest drawback. It sucks the fun right out of the game for me.
Another issue I have is with grenades. They appear to have no shrapnel when they explode, so they're essentially useless unless it explodes right next to your target. Rent before you buy!
EDGE wrote: "Initial indications are that Solid Touch will focus on the characters and narrative from Metal Gear solid 4: Guns of the Patriots."
Is this a video game or an interactive comic book?
And what about price points?
My prediction isn't as sugar coated and wrapped in pretty iPhone-branded wrapping paper as Apple would like it to be. Apple continues to dance this dance and make unrealistic promises to struggling publishers. Apple's quite good at the PR game, but that's not always a good thing.
Publishers are aching for cash right now, but instead of putting 100% into the only real profit-producing baskets, they're foolishly putting development time and money into a mobile platform that has yet to produce significant revenues from any single app (and I'm not talking about a few hundred thousand bucks, I'm talking the kind of cash that a publisher would need to produce in order to justify the millions of dollars it would put into development and marketing titles on the iPhone/Touch platforms). My biggest concern is that the industry will continue to shrink until it implodes and we all see another industry crash similar to what we experienced in the 80's. It may not turn into an industry depression, but it could be damn close. I would like to be proven wrong. I would like to be eating crow a year from now, but something tells me this won't be the case.
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