What aren't we done with this yet? Well every now and then something interesting might still pop up, like this 3/5 review from thetechlounge.<blockquote>Oh, and you are being punished for using a mouse. As a theory, I'm OK with that, just not this particular execution. The basic idea is that it's a real-time game up to the point where you pull the trigger, then it goes turn-based, using your skills and luck to determine the outcome. But if you have to have a good reaction time to trigger turn-based combat, can you really call it turn-based? There's no auto-pause, and once your combat capacity is used up, you're forced into real-time gameplay. If you're at all good at first-person shooters, you're better off going with the braniac smooth-talker. I dunno, that's irony or something.
Yes, the landscapes are disturbing and beautiful, but I really don't know what possessed them not to make this game third-person, aside from showing off how pretty they can make things.
Graphically... Oblivion, which came out two years ago, is more intense. Is it normal for the community to push out high-definition texture packs? Just another element of porting the game; it was designed to play on a 360 and it shows. It shows in blotchy textures, low-polygon environments, and models that look like marionettes hung from a single string. Clever design masks this well, with unique-looking characters and decent voice acting, and insane amounts of HDR, this game's equivalent for Vaseline over the lens of apocalyptic boudoir. There are plenty of other camera tricks, like super-wide--almost fish-eye--rendering of the turn-based combat, lots of radial blur, narrow depth of field, and anything else that obscures the game's detail shortcomings.
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Fallout 3 is a shameless port, a big-budget total conversion, and a collection of Fallout-themed minigames tossed together in one box. What's good about that? Well, it's a pretty good shameless port. The big budget helped the total conversion look slick, even if it's just special effects masking a low-res universe, and all the Fallout-themed minigames are actually fun to play.
It's not at all innovative, instead it sticks to the same formulae that have propelled Mass Effect and other titles to success, and it doesn't make any big mistakes in that light. It's just bland. You won't ever sit at the edge of your seat, you can easily turn off the game and do something else, and no one will pat you on the back for actually finishing it. </blockquote>Spotted on Blue's News.
Yes, the landscapes are disturbing and beautiful, but I really don't know what possessed them not to make this game third-person, aside from showing off how pretty they can make things.
Graphically... Oblivion, which came out two years ago, is more intense. Is it normal for the community to push out high-definition texture packs? Just another element of porting the game; it was designed to play on a 360 and it shows. It shows in blotchy textures, low-polygon environments, and models that look like marionettes hung from a single string. Clever design masks this well, with unique-looking characters and decent voice acting, and insane amounts of HDR, this game's equivalent for Vaseline over the lens of apocalyptic boudoir. There are plenty of other camera tricks, like super-wide--almost fish-eye--rendering of the turn-based combat, lots of radial blur, narrow depth of field, and anything else that obscures the game's detail shortcomings.
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Fallout 3 is a shameless port, a big-budget total conversion, and a collection of Fallout-themed minigames tossed together in one box. What's good about that? Well, it's a pretty good shameless port. The big budget helped the total conversion look slick, even if it's just special effects masking a low-res universe, and all the Fallout-themed minigames are actually fun to play.
It's not at all innovative, instead it sticks to the same formulae that have propelled Mass Effect and other titles to success, and it doesn't make any big mistakes in that light. It's just bland. You won't ever sit at the edge of your seat, you can easily turn off the game and do something else, and no one will pat you on the back for actually finishing it. </blockquote>Spotted on Blue's News.
