Bioshock 2: (Copy of my post from another thread)
Just a warning to PC gamers. The game in its current state (2010/02) is virtually unplayable due to numerous bugs for many individuals in terms of G4WL account problems, savegame corruption, constant and frequent crashes, graphical problems etc (over 45 threads on their support forums) and this is all still after the first patch that got released just after the game itself. It might be worth the wait for a second patch before anybody attempts to review the pc version.
I have a powerful system that pretty much runs anything. Except Bioshock 2.
Video: The game is visibly uglier than the first game (The first game was gorgeous), with lower quality graphics (textures and lighting), aspect ratio problems, short draw distance texture pop issues, pixelation problems and hideous, HIDEOUS jaggies regardless of forced multisampling settings. Both DX10 and DX9 issues. Ingame bik videos cause crashes on numerous systems. Interestingly, it is also not colour-blind-friendly.
Audio:Audio skipping/looping and missing sounds, reverb also reported to crash game
Controls: No game controller support (Unlike Bioshock 1) and none is planned according to the developers. Also changing keybindings causes a lot of things to break ingame.
Other: Savegames corrupt, Games for windows live issues with logging in (cannot save without a g4wl account etc)
Hope they fix it all since it reflects really badly on them. This version of the game is now generally considered "unfinished" by those with technical issues. Personally I feel it to play as a pre-beta since I have played beta games that were more stable than this.
Will ammend my own review once I get to actually play it.
Just a warning to PC gamers. The game in its current state (2010/02) is virtually unplayable due to numerous bugs for many individuals in terms of G4WL account problems, savegame corruption, constant and frequent crashes, graphical problems etc (over 45 threads on their support forums) and this is all still after the first patch that got released just after the game itself. It might be worth the wait for a second patch before anybody attempts to review the pc version.
I have a powerful system that pretty much runs anything. Except Bioshock 2.
Video: The game is visibly uglier than the first game (The first game was gorgeous), with lower quality graphics (textures and lighting), aspect ratio problems, short draw distance texture pop issues, pixelation problems and hideous, HIDEOUS jaggies regardless of forced multisampling settings. Both DX10 and DX9 issues. Ingame bik videos cause crashes on numerous systems. Interestingly, it is also not colour-blind-friendly.
Audio:Audio skipping/looping and missing sounds, reverb also reported to crash game
Controls: No game controller support (Unlike Bioshock 1) and none is planned according to the developers. Also changing keybindings causes a lot of things to break ingame.
Other: Savegames corrupt, Games for windows live issues with logging in (cannot save without a g4wl account etc)
Hope they fix it all since it reflects really badly on them. This version of the game is now generally considered "unfinished" by those with technical issues. Personally I feel it to play as a pre-beta since I have played beta games that were more stable than this.
Will ammend my own review once I get to actually play it.