It’s a tempting 17.99 at play.com, meaning around 27 units of real money.

That’s the first time i’ve heard it referred too as such. I much prefer to hear the Dollar described as ‘Monopoly’ or ‘Clown’ money…

Regardless, I don’t understand why people pay such money for what is essentially an arcade game. £3 gets you enough playtime on the arcade version to either find out you hate it or register a score…

The Mouse Acceleration issue is a common issue with the console-centric porting jobs we get these days.

I see it more as a console rental, not a game I’d give space on my hard drive. It’s a shame since all they’d need to do is tighten up the mouse keyboard controls and maybe get rid of a lot of the filler (way too many screens to click through to get into the action), and maybe balance it differently since broken control aside headshots are crazy easy with a mouse.

Also the player model blocks way too much of the screen and doesn’t tell you anything important, it should either back the hell up or go first-person.

They’re probably aiming to be a good title for consoles with the PC being kind of a secondary market, I guess art and content is so expensive that giving some programming sweatshop a weekend to bang out a PC port that aims for a 2/5 rating from reputable sources and a 4/5 from the usual crowd of company wanks is profitable.

Now if you put it that way, it’s actually not that bad for a port.

And I’ll never understand why developers don’t expect people to be playing their games with 2000dpi mice.

Aha – what exactly does that mean? Because the mouse does indeed feel a bit sluggish in this. Is it that the mouse input detection or however you’d call it is running at comparatively low cycles?

The 2000dpi means that every inch the mouse is moved it’s capable of sending 2000 seperate signals/counts/pulses. The software mouse sensitivity setting should then allow the game to convert this into something reasonably playable e.g. “Every 5 signals move 1 pixel”.

I suspect the sluggish feeling you’re getting is the mouse acceleration where the game dynamically alters this sensitivity of the mouse based on it’s speed. Move it slowly and you’ll get slow tracking of the mouse, however move it quickly and the tracking jumps up. e.g. a slow movement of 1 inch might only move the cursor a few hundred pixels, whilst a quick sweep of 1 inch may cause a 180 turn.

This type of acceleration is usually preferable with a joypad as it helps with precise aiming, and increased turning speeds, however on a mouse it often feels very wrong.

Still too early to talk about sales, I think. There really are people who are fanatic about it.

KG

That one at least isn’t Bizarre’s fault. I agree it’s annoying, but a lot of the time this sort of stuff is the fault of the hosting website.

KG