Eurogamer: Money for old rope? Or newer, better versions of gaming's most celebrated last-gen classics? The process of bringing back vintage noughties console titles and revitalising them with HD visuals now seems to be big business, with a range of classic PS2, Xbox and even Dreamcast releases set for release in the run-up to Christmas.
HD "remastering" kicked off with gusto when Bluepoint Games ported over Sony Santa Monica's brilliant God of War games to the PlayStation 3. While the original releases worked fine on backwards-compatible PS3s, the new remakes were worthwhile in many respects: firstly, resolution was upped to native 720p with anti-aliasing applied, while the inconsistent frame-rate and lack of v-sync on the original games was mostly resolved, resulting in a smoother, more polished experience.
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Hello everybody. We are very happy to announce that the PlayStation Store Halloween Sale starts tomorrow (24th October). There are some frighteningly good offers across a whole range of great titles but please see below for a full list of the content available.
Gonna get myself HoTD 3&4 me thinks. Kind of expected Infamous Festival of Blood to be on sale for Halloween, oh well!
Anyone in Europe who hasn't picked up Beyond good and evil HD yet HAS TO do so now. It was pretty unforgivable to not buy it for the full price but at that price you should have your console taken away for refusing to buy it.
There's always a loser in multiplayer games where you face off against some poor unfortunate staring down the barrel of your gun, but co-op gaming is about making love, not war. You'll love your friends as they save you from the brink of death, puzzle through problems together, double your capacity for mindless slaughter and rack up a bodycount in the thousands. Okay, so they're sometimes about making war.
I am playing MGS peace walker and I gotta say I am having blast with the co-op. it is the perfect co-op for me. I love it, especially the monster hunter X Metal gear.
What? The co-op campaign was amazing in SC:C, better even than the single player campaign and perhaps the most tactical of the SC series when played on realistic difficulty.
This list is quite nice in general, although it's missing on a quick fix of Castle Crashers - Perhaps the best 4 player co-op game I played in recent years.
Conviction its self is a disgrace to the franchise.
Keeping nothing from the previous games, The graphics were was than Double agent, The level design ment you HAD to kill everyone and the story was predictable Hollywood BS.
I have no idea what you mean by "The graphics were was than Double agent"... but graphics wise the game looked great.
I also don't have the first clue what you mean in "HAD to kill everyone", as I believe I probably evaded 50% of the enemies in the game (especially on the realistic difficulty where it's a good idea to just leave some of them alone).
The single players wasn't the best in the franchise but if definitely added some great new ideas that fortunately didn't keep the series stale with last-gen concepts that conservative gamers who don't want to see their games evolve so highly praise.
The only things I missed was the ability to carry bodies, and the spiesVSmercs mode in the multiplayer. But the co-op campaign made up for that.
@Ve3tro: "Ubisoft this week released the Splinter Cell HD trilogy for the Playstation 3, we’ve record footage for you to check out the new differences with the higher resolution.
We will also be having a look at the other two titles Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory in a few days along with a comparison video. "
Why are you on N4G? Shouldn't you be out snappin' necks and stealing important documents and sabotaging operations?
Haven't you seen my latest game? I don't snap necks and steal important documents. Now I kill everyone and make a LOT of noise. Oh, how Ubisoft has changed me.
beware to all those who play their games with the Y-Axis inverted - all three of these games (SP, Pandora Tomorrow, and Chaos Theory) ship without the option to toggle invert or not.
So your only option is normal. Glad I found this out before I purchased. I can't play the game like that. Shame as I was looking forward to this for so long.
Really? Being left handed and rarely even considered by game devs when it comes to control schemes I find it amazing that you can't get used to a non inverted scheme-I'm sure you'd find it fine after a few hours/minutes of gameplay.
Just seems such a small thing to miss out on a bunch of games for especially if you were otherwise looking forwards to them. I generally end up using the default right handed control schemes anyway(so used to having them forced on us!)and am sure the non inverted y Axis shouldn't kill a game for you.
I'm the same way, but I get used to it after a while. Going back to other games is when it gets tough.
Thats pretty lame. I like inverted, it makes sense to me that way. Its like using the joystick for Mechwarrior. I can play normal but id rather not.
Im also left handed but I cant play with any of the left handed controls even if I try, I have to use right hand controls. I never understood the left handed controls, but I use both hands for different things so im different I guess(write left, throw right etc).
To me a controller always seemed like it wasnt something that mattered what hand was your dominant one since you use both. But not having the option to make it inverted is not cool at all. Hope they patch that, then I might buy this someday even though I had the first 2 on xbox already.
@ Blaze929 I made this mistake without knowing this a few days ago :'(
I just cannnot play when its not inverted vertically. I managed to pass the first level in Chaos Theory (just). Now im half way through the 2nd but struggling.
The lighting looks pretty good, but the character models look pretty bad still...
With all due respect, that looked better than half the games that have been released in the last couple years.
@kaveti Well, I rented Hunted Demon's Forge and it looked like ass. This looks at least better than that.
I have a PC version installed (from Steam) and I can tell you this PS3 version looks absolutely fantastic!
It's a pretty old game. Plus, Chaos Theory and Pandora Tomorrow were far superior graphically to the first one. This looks great from how I remember it.
while the up-res is welcome, i was hoping more work would be done.
no self shadow on the ground, but is randomly on the wall.
textures are still the same.
oh well.
Wow - really? Who is disagreeing with what the set date it's supposed to release is? Somebody is trying to fight with logic.
I love HD remakes
ouch!!
Seems like a large waste of money based on a few things from this article if true!
The first 2 splinter cells, while 1080p sometimes runs at 18 frames...ewww
They stated chaos theroy dips down to 20 and is dropped down to 720p.
"It's really difficult to come to any conclusion other than that these two titles were low-budget ports of the original PC titles with very little love put into them. "
Sad, you can get a better looking, better performing pc version much cheaper.
Im happy they are doing these HD remakes its like buying a Blu Ray of an older movie