Posts by Smeg77

XBOX ONE ROUNDUP-of-the-ROUNDUPS: Everything YOU need to know

Games are ok

I managed to get on one of the XB1 Tour dates, so managed to get to try, Ryse, Forza 5, KI, Fifa 14, BF4, DR3 and the Jetski game on Kinect Sports Rivals, they had Zoo Tycoon or whatever it was called but didn't fancy that and plus it was laggy as hell.

Overall Ryse was a fun game, but could get very repetitive if it's not careful, does look nice.

KI is basically your normal beat-em-up affair with lots of particle effects to show of the XB1

BF4 actually looked worse than it does running on a high end PC, which was a shame as the XB1 is meant to be similar in power to most high end pc's

DR3 - supped up DR game, more zombies, new toys, same mechanics, just looks a but nicer

Forza 5 - looks nice although there were a few iffy glitches on the shading, flipping from light to dark rather than a gradual shading. Possibly early code of the game

Fifa 14 - didn't play but watched it for a bit, basically it's FiFa

Kinect sensor- an imporvement over the original, reacts better and picks up more detail and can be used in a room a couple of feet smaller than the other one. I think they said the range was 4ft away where-as the original was 6ft.

Overall there wasn't anything there that made me want to go out and buy one now, so for the time beign I'm quite happy tobide my time and see how things pan out between the two consoles.

Beyond: Two Souls - the game that thinks it's a Hollywood blockbuster

Innovation rather than Stagnation

I've not got round to playing this yet but look forward to it.

There's only been one other game I've come across where the 'inter-active movie' style worked very well and that was with TellTale's The Walking Dead series.

Maybe not as graphically polished as Beyond, but the emotive connection you feel between the main characters is emersive and in some respects superior to some games out there.

As someone mentioned it's nice to see dev's trying out new ideas rather than just following the mainstream - FiFa XX, PES XX, NBA XX, CoD XX, BF XX (xx- insert number as year changes)

I'd much rather support innovation even if in the early stages it's a little rough around the edges than the stagnation we're currently getting it tierd series, where the only innovation they have is that the dog has more polygons (CoD: Ghosts)

Wanna run someone over in your next Ford? No dice, it won't let you

Ford - The Car-Jackers Choice

So basically what Ford have now done is created an easy way for people to Car jack, or better than that stick this on a VIP's car, now you have an easy way to assassinate them.

I believe in Brazil you can drive through Red Traffic lights after 10pm to reduce your chance of having your car jacked and being killed. Ford believe they've been doing it wrong, so now you just need to stand in the road and wait for the car to stop for you....Ford Making thieves lives easier

Card-cloning crooks use 3D printers to make ever-better skimmers

Turn Captions on

Re-watch the video and turn captions on, then skip to 1:33 it's has to be the best snafu going.

"look over your shoulder to see your penis you entered"

Instant classic :)

Captions

Actually watch the whole vid with captions turned on, quite a lot of it doesn't make sense, and then there are just amusing mistakes.