[ Notes: This is from Times the British daily newspapers, not the US-based magazine. InGear is Times' weekly section for men on cars, gadgets and adventure. ]
The Sunday Times - December 16, 2007:
Stuart Andrews reviews the year in gaming, the reason for Wii's success, and high-definition (HD) gaming. Then he announces Times InGear's picks of 2007:
• Game of the Year - Crysis (PC)
• Family Game of the Year - Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Wii)
• Sport and Driving Game of the Year - Project Gotham Racing 4 (Xbox 360)
• Action Game of the Year - The Orange Box (multi-format)
• Adventure and Strategy Game of the Year - World in Conflict (PC)
• Handheld Game of the Year - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)
View the full article for special mentions in each category.
A Crysis VR mod is now available for download, allowing users to experience the first entry in the series in VR
No one cares. The whole can it run Crysis is old, dead and stupid. It's also irrelevant, considering only less than one percent of pc owners, own a high-end PC. Second, I believe Crysis wasn't even optimized properly.
Let's hope the modders can get the other Crysis games working in VR as they use the same Cryengine.
GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."
I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.
It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good
Digital Foundry: "When Alex Battaglia got his hands on a Steam Deck, this was inevitable, right? So can the Steam Deck really run Crysis? And if so, what type of optimised settings produce the best performance? What's the best balance of features and battery life... and what about 60fps?"
Yay for Crysis
I guess I will once again put Orange Box in and try to see the appeal. So far I am not getting it but then I have only tried to drudge through HL2.
World in Conflict and HL2 I can kinda understand... rest of the list sucks.... especially wario ware *shudders*
Seriously, it's funny how it lacks consistency with what most gamers and press outlets think. I can't wait till some parent gets to work dirty after spilling their coffee when asking what kind of computer (in $$$ terms) do they need to run Crysis.
Where the hell are Bioshock and Mass Effect? Why is that Mediocre game "Crackdown" doing up there? Assassin's Creed, another sandbox game, is better than it, but I guess you can thank the Halo 3 bundle for that. Furthermore, if Crackdown deserved a mention, then Lost Planet too and with more reason (haters go to hell). By the way, Rockband > any party game on the Wii, and Motorstorm > PGR4 (if this guy is gonna recommend "popular" games, or "games for the family", Motorstorm is definitely more casual oriented than PGR4).
I bet they were simply trying to fill the "game section", if there is one. Morons.
Times is out of business