Comments on: Avatar Demo Released, In A Peculiar Place

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:46:22 +0000

I prefer to think of it as Not-Battle-Angel-Alita-Yet

I give that only a 90% odds of being total crap, still has more potential than this film

However! We’re talking about a game demo, which I am downloading. As a videogame, there may be potential here.

Oops, looks like I’ve still got a rant. Hollywood doesn’t get games. Gamer (shudder), Surrogates, and now this… they all get it wrong. They look like they know what’s going on in games, but they miss by a mile. They focus on what games LOOK like: player controlling avatar, avatar doing things. Then they imagine this in a real world context, with real world rules. WRONG. Games are about the rules. They are about the way the world works. Do that, and you have a movie about gaming culture. On the other hand, if you want to make a movie BASED on a game, ignore both the previous facts entirely, it’s just a story. But, play the game, realize the style and atmosphere, and play to those strengths. The problem here? Most games are solitary experiences, and more cerebral in that respect than your average summer blockbuster. And there’s the problem right there. Ok, got that out of my system.

By: VelvetFistIronGlove

VelvetFistIronGlove — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:43:19 +0000

Compressed .cabs, inside a self-extracting rar .exe, inside a .zip. 4.5 gigs of space before I can even run the demo. And it turns out to be a pretty shit game after all that.

By: superking208

superking208 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:45:17 +0000

I prefer to think of it as Fern Gully.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:28:14 +0000

Played the demo, complete bog-(har its in a swamp)standard third person shooter. I gave up and uninstalled at the boss that, get this, charges you, so you have to strafe and shoot it in the back.

Invisible walls aplenty, of course. Oh for the cancelled Outcast sequel I had some sad hope this might have been something like.

By: cncplyr

cncplyr — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:47:21 +0000

woo gamershell to the rescue! :D

By: Vandelay

Vandelay — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:24:36 +0000

Fry Cry 2 needed a third party program to make sure it gave you the correct widescreen FOV, at least at release.

By: SirKicksalot

SirKicksalot — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:50:13 +0000

Yes it is. I’m a PC-only gamer and haven’t noticed anything wrong with the controls or the FOV. I’m playing it at a 5:4 resolution. Just like Far Cry 2, it has quite a lot of options to tweak.

By: Tei

Tei — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:46:49 +0000

oh noes.. this age will be remenber as the “dark ages of gamming”. Its worth download this thing?

By: Wisq

Wisq — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:08:39 +0000

Oh thank god, nothing to do with Airbenders. Which I guess I would know if I’d paid attention to the prior RPS coverage, but still.

By: Günter

Günter — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:00:23 +0000

I prefer to think of it as Pocahontas with Smurfs.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:06:07 +0000

Gamershell

http://www.gamershell.com/download_53202.shtml

By: ZIGS

ZIGS — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:56:12 +0000

Mouse aiming is straight-from-thumbstick and FOV straight-from-TV. Fix those 2 things and I might give a damn