A PC magazine i by recomends unreal 2 as the best shooter you can get a the moment, would you agree with that? thinking of buying it.

also, if you DO have it, is it worth the money?

It's not. If you like pretty graphics, it may be, but it's really short, and experienced gamer like you would be tru it in 4 work (!)days.

And even if you like graphics, HL2 is gonna blow everything to pieces in a few months, so i strongly advice against it. sorry.


That Pc magazine was prolly in a deal with the Unreal2 producers, soemthing like "if i give you a premiere/exclusive, you must give it at least this score or recommend it". Lot of that going on these days; only trust independent magazines. Sure, they get some review copies later than others because they refuse to have the producers influence their rating, but at least you know what you're getting. Also, some magazines review beta's of games sent to them, which obviously should be hnadled in a PREview. Damn game magazines. Blah, sorry.

I agree with Ox. I played some of it...typical repetitive FPS drivel. Graphics are nice, but everything else is the same, boring crap. Shitty enemy AI (at least for the parts I played), weapons are the usual clones, etc etc. Save your money.

yeah, kinda guessed that it was blarney.

half life 2 and doom 3 are really going to be something, it's the required spec that bugs me, i don't think a 1.5 gig, 512 ram, geforce 4 ti-4200 will even be enough, probably lag like hell.

I don't know about HL2, but DoomIII should run on it ok. It was originally designed to run at 30fps on a GeForce3 with what was the PC at the time...probably around a 1ghz or so. I forget. So you should be able to push it, though not at high resolutions, I'm sure. Did you ever see the leaked beta demo?

no, never saw that, do you know where i can get hold of it?

not anymore. It floated around newsgroups for awhile. Also some P2P, not sure if it's there anymore. I, of course, would caution against that, since it's kinda illegal. John Carmack was pissed about the leak...he even posted on slashdot when some people were questioning whether the leak was intentional or not.

Just FYI, it runs like ass (or so I've heard, cough). I mean, it's like alpha or pre-alpha stuff...totally not optimized. Looks damned good, though.

Yep, i heard about it too, it's an alpha designed to run on high-end machines, i've heard of ppl with a failry monsterous pc that had still crappy FPS, so you can iamgine. I bet it's still around somewhere tho, but ofcourse, i wouldn't know where.

lol ox as if you could do anything with it (referring to crappy pc )

so you serieusly can`t play lionheart or what?
let me ask a stupid question: where can i see my computer specs?
and what 3D card i have?

(i know i know i don`t know jack about computers)

And i still prefer a good game with average grafics over a game with magnific grafics but average gameplay.

lol J.

right click on 'my computer' and then you want 'properties' which will give you your spec.

sorta. That just gives some very general info...won't tell him his mhz, for instance, just that he's intel or amd.

Try Sisoft Sandra:

http://www.sisoftware.net/index.html?di ... angx=en&a=

I'm pretty sure it has an information thing that'll tell you all your stats. Yep. All kinds. Here's my system summary.

SiSoftware Sandra

System
Host Name : LUCIFER
User : Administrator
Domain : LUCIFER

Processor
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Speed : 2.00GHz
Model Number : 2400 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR2906 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC Synchronous Write-Back

Mainboard
Bus(es) : AGP PCI USB FireWire/1394
MP Support : No
System BIOS : Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A7N8X2.0 Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1005
Mainboard : ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X2.0
Chipset : ASUSTeK Computer Inc nForce2 AGP Controller
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 134MHz (268MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 1024MB

Video System
Monitor/Panel : Plug and Play Monitor
Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600

Physical Storage Devices
Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive
Hard Disk : WDC WD600BB-00CAA1
CD-ROM/DVD : DVD-16X DVD-ROM BDV316C
CD-ROM/DVD : YAMAHA CRW-F1E
CD-ROM/DVD : ELBY DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device

Logical Storage Devices
1.44MB 3.5" (A:) : N/A
Hard Disk (C:) : 55.9GB (21.9GB, 39% Free) (NTFS)
Morrowind (D:) : 655MB (0MB, 0% Free) (CDFS)
CD-ROM/DVD (E:) : N/A
CD-ROM/DVD (F:) : N/A

Peripherals
Serial/Parallel Port(s) : 2 COM / 1 LPT
USB Controller/Hub : Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : NVIDIA PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : Generic USB Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Composite Device
USB Controller/Hub : USB Printing Support
USB Controller/Hub : EPSON PCMCIA Storage Device
USB Controller/Hub : Generic USB Hub
FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub : OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub : OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Keyboard : Logitech HID-Compliant Keyboard
Mouse : HID-compliant mouse
Mouse : Razer USB Mouse
Human Interface : HID-compliant consumer control device
Human Interface : HID-compliant device
Human Interface : USB Human Interface Device
Human Interface : Internet Keys USB
Human Interface : USB Human Interface Device

MultiMedia Device(s)
Device : Creative SB Audigy
Device : Creative Game Port

Printers and Faxes
Model : EPSON Stylus Photo 785EPX

Operating System(s)
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.01.2600

Network Adapter(s)
Network Drivers Enabled : Yes
Adapter : 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller