SouthPeak Games has announced that it will be releasing a sequel to Two Worlds, its popular open-world role-playing game. Entitled Two Worlds: The Temptation, this second episode from the world of Antaloor is set for release on PC and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®. Due on the shelves in autumn 2008, Two Worlds: The Temptation will build on its prequel by including a host of improvements and new features, including a completely overhauled graphics engine.
IGN Writes: "Two Worlds was a laughing stock. There's no point in pretending otherwise. A vaguely Oblivion-esque roleplaying game, it reliably failed to match its ambition with its budget, resulting in a buggy, bizarre thing with a script seemingly written by a madman drunk on tramp juice. The one thing it did get right was timing - fairly hot on the heels of Oblivion, and something a little refreshingly different in the 360's relative youth. Also, it let you strap multiple swords together to make one even better sword. There's no arguing that that's a bad idea, right? Snickerfest it might have been, but the 2007 RPG sold well enough to warrant a sequel , one that we're told will be much, much better: built new from the ground up, rather than being simply more Two Worlds. That's your cue to stop sniggering at the back and pay attention."
PC Games Hardware reports that upcoming RPG Two Worlds II is able to feed eight CPU cores with tasks like rendering and gameplay stuff. They even show a screenshot from a task manager running Two Worlds II on an eight core system.
That's pretty intense. I don't know of any viable processors coming out with 8 cores...but I'll take it.
No because the the Cell doesn't work like that.
It has one Core (PPE)
and eight helpers (SPe's) 6 available for games 1 for OS and 1 not active
Well its using 8 cores but only at 28%. People with good 4 core systems should be fine.
Both Intel and AMD already have 6 core processors and 8 cores are on the horizon. Mostly for servers use.
It's good they optimized this game for the PC and multicore use that way it will run smooth on mid range PC's and run smooth on consoles.
Maybe they scale well with i7's? My CPU has 4 physical cores and 8 logical cores, which if used properly can generate a huge performance boost over 4 physical cores.
3DMark Vantage and Cinebench are pretty much the only places where you'll see a meaningful improvement with hyper-threading, and as we all know synthetic benchmarks don't mean a whole lot. This game will likely barely stress 4 cores, let alone 8 cores, physical or logical. I would still rather have an 8 core CPU with hyper threading than one without it.
Both PPE & SPUs are cores.
SPUs can run indepentantly of the PPE or along side it, SPUs have the own kernal, memory & DMA. SPUs are CPUs in ther own right, so are cores.
The PPE could be considered a core, but the SPE's are _not_ cores. SPE's cannot run independantly from the PPE.
Brutal Gamer writes - 'It's been well over 2 years since the first Two Worlds was released by TopWare Interactive. The first title was attacked heavily in the reviews, claiming the game to be an unstable and buggy mess, not something which you'd like to hear about one of your first console platforms – meaning the second one has quite a lot to make up for, but has it? You'll have to read on to find out.'
A sequel to a horrendous Western Role Playing game. Two Worlds recieved some of the worst reviews in RPG history. Games like this has given shame to the true developers such as Square Enix. To make matters worse, in typical Microsoft fashion, this sequel will be rushed to the market in order to make a claim that XBOX 360 has more games. Ensuring that more garbage hits the market for their garbage console.
This is what Dark Sniper likes to call RUSHING AH3AD.
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I understand a lot of the complaints that people have of Two Worlds. I had the same issues at first.
But really, the game actually draws you into the world and has good character leveling and sound story structure.
The voice acting can be over the top and the controls can take some getting used to... but over all I have really enjoyed the game.
With better graphics, better voice acting and maybe the use of the Assassins Creed horse controls. This game would be excellent.
Can't wait to see what comes of this game.