• 9Jul 09

  Mirror's Edge Review

  I did this review . I think its a great, but then again, I wrote it. Anway, please read and support my ego.

  Mirror's Edge is a unique and often frustrating game to play through. It is a first-person platformer and while everything starts off well, you'll likely be wanting to throw the controller at some point before the end. Despite being a platformer, the game felt more like and adventure title to me. Most of the time, you're struggling to figure out what it is the game wants you to do and once you've figured it out, its not too hard to do. Also, the premise of the game is being a runner, but you're often forced into situations where you have to slow down. There are some situations where you have to fight too. I would like to blame the game's problems on poor level design, however it feels like the developers didn't know how great of a game they had. The presentation is top notch and the controls are tight. The music is pretty good too. If the game had a tighter focus on speed, it could have been so much more.

  For what it is though, I thought the game had an enjoyable campaign. The story did its job and kept me entertained. While it doesn't take long to complete the 9 included chapters, there are more challenges to unlock. With the speed run mode and included time trials, its possible one could spend a large amount of time on this game. In conclusion, the game does a good job as a new IP, but its good ideas are not completely fleshed out. What is there is still worth a look, but rental should suffice for most people.

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  There I split it. I don't know how I missed the obvious break before. Thanks Lightfellower.

  • Posted Jul 9, 2009 8:41 pm PT
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• 7Jul 09

  Shadowrun and Overclocking

  I've been playing Shadowrun on my PC for a year now and only recently did the game start being buggy on me. What happens is that I'll run into a group of people, or someone will teleport onto me, and the game will just freak out. The framerate will drop to near zero for a second or two, then it will all be fine again except my character will be dead on the ground. I originally tried just turning the graphical settings down, and it didn't work. What makes this weird is that the game had never done this to me before. I thought it was possibly a problem with the processor just not having enough juice to keep up. So I overclocked it.

  I have a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 Ghz. I'm also using a MSI P35 Neo mainboard. What I discovered is that overclocking with my board is easy. You just type in your desired FSB speed and it figures out the rest for you. I was innitially running at 3.6 ghz overclocked and that worked fine. I even did a 3Dmark06 benchmark and with the new settings there was significant improvement. I didn't write down the scores but it went from a 10,000 or so score to 12000. The processor was still running at around 40C, so I figured I was good.

  Well, I try out Shadowrun and the game runs like butter in a bot match. So, I take it online, and after about 2 hours of playing, its obvious the problem is still there. I'm begining to think this isn't a problem with the processor. So, to make sure, I overclocked it more to 3.8 Ghz, but I haven't gotten to try it yet. My guess now is that this is a network problem. Strangely it only affects the computer though. I normally have a 360 running with someone else playing, in the same match at the same time, and that doesn't have a problem.

  • Posted Jul 7, 2009 5:37 am PT
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• 29Jun 09

  Oh, that was easy. Now, I feel dumb.

  I figured out why everyone else could beat SF4 while I couldn't. I was playing on easy, thinking it was the easiest difficulty. It turns out the not only is there a "Very Easy" but there is a Very Very Easy, called "Easiest". The first time I played through it was as M.Bison and all I did was down kick over and over again and I won never died. I even got a perfect on Seth. So, now I can unlock all the characters. That doesn't address my balancing complaints about Seth in multiplayer, but I've learned some new tricks, so I might do better next time someone plays as him.

  • Posted Jun 29, 2009 5:31 am PT
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