What happens when you take two RV670 GPUs clocked at over 800MHz and combine them onto one board with 1GB of memory? The Radeon HD 3870 X2 of course! This new $449 card is poised to dethrone NVIDIA's mighty GeForce 8800 Ultra, but does it accomplish its mission? Yes and No. Read on for the full results!
Preview by Brandon Sandman Bell on January 28, 2008
Soul Covenant feels like a game from the early 2000s, with its repetitive gameplay loop, waggle controls, and nonsensical story.
Indie developer Carlos Alfonso is working on Cold VR, a game where standing still isn't an option. The complete opposite to SUPERHOT VR.
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered players are ticked off by the game’s most recent patch, which censors in-game pin-up posters of Lara Croft.
This is why gaming is screwed. When people change things to fit someone’s agenda, it’s a slippery slope downhill.
Even if that agenda is of the developer? Way to remove developer rights.
***One player called it a “huge problem with modern games,” saying they can now be “ruined AFTER people buy them”.***
The level of drama. Yes, I recall sitting there for more hours than I did anything else in the game. These two pinups are the core of the game, after all!
rlow1's cringe catastrophizing aside, I do think developers *ought* to strive to maintain an original work to the best of their ability. The language of a "remaster" tacitly implies that - for good or ill - what's being resold is what fans remember but better.
Games can be ruined after purchasing them yeah we know this not from this but from GTA IV which had half it's radio content patched out due to licensing expirations and to me that was a huge deal.
This pin up poster is a bit of nonsense but the whole argument of modern games can be ruined post launch is Absol true.
It's not their work to censor. They are incharge of restoration & remastering the work, not overwriting it.
It's not the agenda of the developer though, they're pandering and trying to increase their ESG score.
Way to support censorship...
It’s not the end of the world for sure, but I understand the hate towards this kind of change. I believe it’s also a matter of principle.
Imagine a Picasso painting being restored & the restorer deciding there aren’t enough strokes, or some lines aren’t straight enough or curved enough…not sure it would/should sit well with people.
Have all original devs signed off on this change? Even if it’s the case, are we saying older gamers are better mentally equipped to process what was there than current gamers, hence the change?
Enough time ago the case was made that games are an art form. We’re supposed to have won that case.
So which is it? Are games art or not?
Hasn't this been happened for over a decade since remasters? I can't see that it's any worse now. Maybe if Sweet Baby starts getting their hands on remasters we will definitely have a problem.
tbh I dont see something like this as censorship. Does anyone else not find it strange for someone to stick pin ups of themsleves in a locker room?
Now of it was a pin up of some half naked firefighters it might make sense as Lara might like that, and if they removed that I would cry censorship. But removing pin ups of the main character, yeah I get it.
A bit overdue... imho.
Quite surprised and impressed by ATI with this card.
Still it only just rivals a 2 year old Nvidia offering. I need to see some 9800GX2 benchmarks before id consider investing in anything with "ATI" on the box!
That test is well biased.
If they where going to do the testing they should have done an 8800 Ultra in SLi. Since they put the 8800 below the ATi 3870 in crossfire.
What a crock. Very Biased review
I had a Radeon 3870 before it crapped out on me after just 1 week. As for this card, it's great for the price considering it offers just about the same performance as an 8800 Ultra but I'd rather wait for a card that pwns Crysis.
not trying to start a Street Fighter here I'm just pointing out that it seems like ATI can't out bench mark there rival Nvidia just like Microsoft and Sony; and by the way Sony is ATI.