WOW this game is slightly addicting. This is a fantastic puzzle game! 

is great. 

did any of you guys ever play this game back in the 90s?
it had like no graphics beyond a few little icons and ran as a windowed application in win3.1

very deep and complex 4x game. had hours of fun on that thing. 

Need for speed : the run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a4X90w7YT0&feature=feedu

I have such fond memories of the original need for speed underground, to see the series reduced to that is just..well... :( 

NFS:U rocked! 

http://pc.ign.com/articles/117/1174725p1.html 

soooo... quicktime event driven completely linear gta ripoff? wut?

what happened to racing for money and upgrading your car and such. i loved that in nfs underground. 

This sounds absolutely astounding. WHY NO PC???

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/06/09/e3-2011-dust-514s-realtime-integration-with-eve-online/ 

Lets do this dance!

What impressed you from the show this year?

My top picks would have to be battlefield 3 and Skyrim, with an honourable mention of Dust 514, ccp are batshit crazy to try something like that but it sounds very, very interesting!

"WHY NO PC" qft zwiffle, I was sad :( 

There wasn't even a mw3 mp trailer. 

can't say I was so impressed by the single player portion they showed. After seeing New York beautifully realised in Crysis 2, mw3 looks absolutely terrible in comparison.

Waiting for some multiplayer details too I guess! 

the concept of dust 514 is awesome. i love that it affects their other mmo as well. 

Yeah, the sp footage was less than thrilling. Although, I'd be willing to conjecture that 90% of the people who play duty could not care less about it's sp. :p 

Looks pretty promising http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLHtqI8CEDo

Being down on the battlefield in warhammer 40k universe sounds right up my alley. 

I had totally forgotten about that one, reminds me of darksiders! 

Graphics look so-so.

Coloured lighting effects look like ass.

3rd person perspective looks awful and pointlessly detrimental.

Gameplay looks quite decent tho. 

sock is working on that, I have faith : ) 

Good:

Arkham City.
Battlefield 3.
Bioshock Infinite.
From Dust.
Prey 2.

Bad:
Tomb Raider (I really hope that that was just the intro/tutorial level and not entirely indicative of the overall game. I want this to be good).
Mass Effect 3.
NFS: The Run.
MW3.


Stuff I liked the trailer for but not sure how much I'll like the game (or 'Ugly' for sake of consistency):
Farcry 3 (have I ever told you the definition of insanity?).
Brothers in Arms 4.


Special award for 'wtf is the point and how/why is it even being made':
Halo 4.


I also really liked that game with original IP. You know. That one. 

what's wrong with me3? 

Forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me. 

Finally getting around to this, about 1/3 of the way in I think.

Nice game but way too much driving/boating till now. 

If I counted all the times every game I've ever played has crashed, it still wouldn't add up to Timeshift's. This thing crashed probably every 2-3 minutes. It wasn't a game stopping crash, more a graphics crash and it would spit me to the desktop. But the game would still run so I'd just have to alt-tab back in.

During installation it gave me errors that my drivers are out of date and need updating. My drivers are approximately five years newer than this game, so there's no way they're out of date. What it really wants is for me to backdate my drivers to probably something from 2007 for it to be compatible. That's not happening; so I'm forced to play with the desktop popping up every few minutes.

That being said, the fact that I still persevered and finished this game while thoroughly enjoying it, must mean even more than normal. Indeed TimeShift could be considered slightly under-rated when you look at it's many mixed and average reviews. What I'd compare it to most is F.E.A.R. Sure it's missing the dark horror scares and a story, but the gameplay is very similar. While in F.E.A.R. you're forced to use bullet-time constantly during combat, TimeShift takes bullet-time one step further and turns it into proper time control. You can slow time down, completely pause time or, at some points during the game, reverse time - which is very, very cool. To balance things out from being too easy, your ability requires recharging so you can't just use it constantly. But you do need it all through the game in order to survive. The gameplay is fun and well-balanced, although the enemies and weapons could have done with some more variety.

On the other side of board, the 'looks' of the game hold up well. And this respect it completely demoralises F.E.A.R. The art direction, textures, level design all look great. The engine is well up to 2007 standards; not the best around, but adequate enough. There's also enough variety in settings that it never becomes repetitive. You battle through the usual military sci-fi settings with a bit of snow and outdoor areas thrown it, capped on either end by a city setting. All good looking with the occasional set-piece.

Overall a good looking game, decent gameplay. It's just a shame it runs so poorly with it's constant crashing. 

and I dont remember too many crashes. Patched up kona? 

Has anybody tried it? I hear it's pretty crap. 

wait for it to hit the bargain bins :)