Renzatic on 11/7/2013 at 00:20
The Fall is now officially out. Anyone with a tablet pick this up yet?
Yeah, normally that'd be me, but this came out at the worst possible time, since I got my PS3 with a crapton of games. I want to play through what I've got before I get something new.
henke on 11/7/2013 at 13:58
Minimum rec is iPad 3, support for iPad 2 is coming soon apparently. Anyway, me and my clunky ol' iPad 1 won't get to play it. Boohoo!
The price is 6 euros.
IGN gameplay video with commentary:
[video=youtube;AbdDf1exHUc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbdDf1exHUc[/video]
Renzatic on 13/7/2013 at 03:29
I caved in and bought it. I'm now waiting for it to finish downloading. First impressions coming soon.
edit: FIRST IMPRESSIONS!
It's exactly what I expected it'd be: a surprisingly true to form Deus Ex game that has control issues. The fake analog controls work better than I thought they would, with the entire middle-left portion of the screen being dedicated to movement, and the middle-right for mouse look, but the way EM has scattered the buttons across the touch screen makes it difficult to do things quickly. Something as normally fluid as taking cover against a wall and leaving it again is a bit of a stuttering chore here.
I want to say a lot of my problems are due to me not being used to it yet (I've barely played 15 minutes so far), but I have a feeling that as good as I get, it'll never be as smooth as it would be on the PC or consoles. The iPad really needs a controller to get the most out of it.
The graphics and sound? Dead on. Even without heavy use of specular and bumpmapping effects, the game looks surprisingly close to what I saw on the PC. The fact it's running at 2048x1536 means it's sharp as hell.
...but here's the bad part: load zones. And a lot of them. Roughly the size as what we saw in DX2. I haven't gotten to the hub yet, but I have a feeling it's going to annoy me just as much here as it did there.
Overall feelings are mixed. On one hand, it's great playing a proper DX game on a tablet. On the other, it's not really the best place for it. Tablets are better suited for point 'n click turn based style games, not skill based first person shooters that require a ton of easily accessible buttons to do all the various things you'll need to perform to survive. EM did a spectacular job on the game, no doubt, but the limitations of the medium itself keep it from being as good as it could be.
Just keep in mind my opinions might change the farther into it I get.
Renzatic on 15/7/2013 at 06:53
What's funny is that you don't even need to jailbreak to pirate apps on iOS anymore. Punishing the jailbreakers for something they could do is incredibly short sighted, and won't do a damn thing to stop piracy. It'll only piss off your paying customers.
But on the plus side, at least they realized how stupid they were being, and fixed it quickly enough.
robthom on 23/7/2013 at 15:25
Lol @ "the gut punch".
:)
That looks really good for an ipad.
And looking at the direction ms is going in general, and taking windows with it I'm resigned into looking for what is gonna be the gaming platform of the future.
True ms is only becoming as bad as apple,
but at least I'll have hipster appeal.
:thumb:
june gloom on 7/8/2013 at 06:17
Oh good, my Nexus 7 is hungry.
Renzatic on 7/8/2013 at 20:55
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Oh good, my Nexus 7 is hungry.
You got the new Nexus 7, right? The one with the awesome screen and overall better everything?
