I bought AC back when it came out last year, and it has sat on my shelf until recently. There were so many games that came out just before the holiday, plus all the traveling etc I just didnt have time to get to it.

For some reason I recently decided I was going to play the game through, and I have to tell you this may be one of my all time favorite games. The graphics aren't technically the best in the world, but the attention to detail is utterly amazing. I mean the size of the game and world, the cities, the rooftops, buildings, the climbing supported via graphics, just beautiful.

I am also loving the gameplay more than I ever thought. Once you figure out the mechanics, it took me til the 3rd city before things clicked and I am loving the gameplay. The weapon system is clean and concisce, easy to pickup but not exactly easy to use. I am having so much fun with the mechanics of this game, I would say it may be my favorite game of all time.

For all of those post asking is AC worth it to buy, yes it is, but you will need to invest a little time into the game before you start to see how beautiful and well constructed the game is.

Its at least 30 - 35% more pixels. here is what i would reccommend, go to your local electronics store, see if they have a 1080P television next to a 720P television and decide for yourself.

Also why would you run a 1080P signal through a 720P native television?

I am not a big fan of the Vizio tvs. They dont have very good contrast ratio and the picture is mediocre at best compared to the name brands (e.g. Samsung, Sony, etc.). People understestimate the effect using cheap parts on a tv will have on its picture quality, for example the glass quality plays a big role.

I also dont like the bezel, the silver doesn't go with the decor :). I might have considered one for my office or even bedroom if they offered a black bezel.

However its a good tv if you dont want to throw alot of money at it and having a crystal clear image isn't important.

Misinformation...

First of all are you running your 360 through component? If so it will not upscale past 480P which could be a big part of the problem. You need either VGA or HDMI (if you have an elite), with these two connectors you can get up to 1080P upscaling from your DVD.

I can BS on the 360 not being a good DVD player, its easily as good as any other upscaling player I have seen.

[QUOTE="Bgrngod"]

For gaming, a DLP is probably your best bet. Plasma is overpriced for a TV that easily burns in, which can happen easier if you are gaming on it. LCD has some color contrast issues with blacks looking grey and such.

Between LCD and Plasma though, I would go with an LCD in a heartbeat, no questions asked. I'd strongly recommend avoiding Plasma as it's an old overpriced technology.

SSJBen

So... uh where have you been in the last 2 years of Plasma techonology?

Burn-in on any of today's Plasma is non-existant. Heck, its already non-existant from a 2 year old set back in 2006.

Plasma overpriced?
You haven't been shopping around lately have you?

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Plasma destroys LCDs when it comes to pure image viewing. Put them side by side, and you'll admit that Plasma color vibrance are quite a bit deeper.

I personally last shopped for a television approx 6 months ago. At the time Plasma were several hundred dollars more expensive than a comprable LCD or DLP. The picture was better I agree, but for my budget I didnt want to drop 6-8" in size to afford the plasma.

The BIGGEST knock on the plasma tv is the gases. My understanding is if something happens to the gases they can't be replaced, you can throw the tv out. When they wear out, throw the tv out. I know the current plasmas, the gases have a very long life expectancy (like 10 years of 4 hours a day or something like that). Something to keep in mind...

The biggest difference used to be price tag, generally plasma tv's are more expensive when looking at the same size television.

The biggest con of the plasma is the life of the tv, although now the hour count is enormous.

I personally would be interested in seeing 120hz LCD running a PS3 game, I saw it running Pirates 3 and was blown away.

I am always amazed when I hear people say that they cant see a significant difference between DVD and HD formats. I can maybe give it to you if you are talking about upscaled DVDs, but they have a fuzziness to them because there is not enough data to create a sharp crisp image.

Its true some of the earlier movies (and some current) just dont have very good source to generate HD from (e.g. Ocean's 13 looks like crapola). But the majority of movies look stunning.

I think Animated movies are the exception to the rule, there is not enough detail in Animated movies to make a significant difference, an upscaled animated movie will in most cases resemble its HD counter part.

How do you know which are which? Either rent first, or do your homework, read the AVS forum.

A win-win situtation? Well good thing they released an HD DVD drive for the 360 because I can just imagine how much money those are raking in now that HD DVD has gone down the crapper.PS2_ROCKS

This doesn't even make any sense, can you clarify please? Give a frame of reference or something...

[QUOTE="codezer0"] Combine with the fact that most movies in HD-DVD started @ VC-1 where most initial BluRay were MPEG2 (basically same as DVD)ramey70

That's not entirely accurate. MPEG-2 can look as good or better than VC-1 (and even AVC/h.264) if given enough bitrate. In fact, many HDV cameras actually capture in MPEG-2 and that raw footage is later compressed with AVC or VC-1. The big problem with early BD releases using MPEG-2 was that the single layer discs at 25GB didn't provide enough room to give the MPEG-2 media the proper bitrate it required.

In all honesty who cares, the point was the initial stuff encoded in MPEG2 didnt look very good, you are splitting hairs.

Although there were also HD DVD's that didnt look so hot either, Goodfellas, Oceans 13 are two examples. Both formats were putting anything and everything on their "HD" disc.