Now Vegas should look good; it used Unreal Engine 3.0. The only other game in 2006 that uses Unreal Engine 3 was Gear of War, which looked MUCH better than Vegas. Tweaking the game to look better wasn't an option, apart from blurring, shadows and something about long range rendering which put the game to an unplayable crawl in large areas. For some reason, the textures look really bad, like they were only limited colour gifs. They were very grainy instead of smooth. Perhaps the lighting had something to do with this, as it was very dull and lacked contrast. At one point I was supposed to be in a pitch dark room, but it was still only 70% black. In hindsight perhaps turning the brightness down may have helped, but this was the default setting so why should I have to change it? The entire game, a bit like Gears of War, looks very muddy and desaturated. Almost like the lighting creates a dirty fog over everything. It certainly isn't crisp and clear like Crysis.

The levels also never acheived greatness. There were a few neat set peices such as looking out across Las Vegas on top of a casino tower, Dante's Casino which is still under construction and the Nevada Dam at the end. Some of the casino's look really cool and life like, but overall there's a lot of corridor-room-corridor-room. And with weak texturing and lighting, Vegas isn't a great looking game.

That's about how you can sum up Vegas; good but not great. In some ways it's replayable because everything is professional enough. It's clear it's not built by an indy studio on a budget with major bugs. But the gameplay is the same old Rainbox Six tactical shooter with no variety, an empty storyline and the levels don't look too different to your local casino; perhaps with a slight architectural upgrade.

Rating: 7.0/10 

In hindsight perhaps turning the brightness down may have helped, but this was the default setting so why should I have to change it?

Seriously?

I think in the gun porn genre Vegas was pretty enjoyable. I remember liking it when playing it, but can't really recall what happened during the game, or what I enjoyed. 

Anyone else play this? I plan on picking it up on steam to hold me over until diablo 3. 

It's a great game imo. I'm looking forward more to Torchlight 2 than Diablo 3. 

I found it like junk food. Tasty at first but ultimately you do not end up satisfied. 

I had fun with the game at first, but I got very bored with it quickly - as I did with Borderlands I was playing around the same time, perhaps even more so - and it then felt like a chore to get through. Filtering through an inventory full of items every five minutes trying to pick out what is worth keeping or selling got tiresome fast too. It wasn't the game for me. 

Was a nice game, but yeah the loot didn't feel quite right for some reason, still felt Diablo2 and Titan Quest were better.
Still really looking forward to Torchlight 2 though. 

....but I agree that perhaps the loot system was off - I usually get really into just trawling dungeons looking for some awesome item, but in Torchlight for some reason I just didn't care. Gave up before I got too far unfortunately. 

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/17/wot-i-think-bastion/ 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OgMSpzJ7C8g 

I'm really liking it so far, the gameplay is nice and smooth (best with a gamepad in my opinion), the atmosphere, visuals and music are great.

There are quite a few weapons to unlock and upgrade, with challenges etc.
The story is told by a narrator as you play, which is pretty weird, but works quite nicely (and the guy has a great voice). 

i think this game will be great, but personally, i wouldn't mind a less epic story line. playing as the great saviour in morrowind and oblivion is actually getting kind of boring. :P
it'd be cool to be more of a local hero or something. don't really know how to express this, actually. a hero, just not the hero of the entire world. 

like in fallout 2. 

I'm really liking it so far. I chose to play a berserker, and have a dog for my pet. trying to find this library had been daunting though. 

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/11/aug/aliens5.jpg 

Zombie's Doom 3 map is coming along nicely then :) 

fuck that's look scary 

like in fallout 2.
pretty much. or even fallout1.
sure, your mission is important to vault 13, but it was a local problem and no one else really gives a shit.


but in oblivion... you're going around closing oblivion gates and kicking a huge demon's ass... but sure, i'll swim around in the lake and kill some fish for you, old random guy.

skyrim just looks like more of the same. one guy facing insanely powerful evil guys and coming out on top. like every other rpg these days, it seems.

which just makes it weird when, for example, a shop keeper is charging you top price for gear so you can go save his ass fighting the big bad about to blow up his shop. 

"Hey dude, I'm gonna go save the world! Give me that shit free!"

"Yeah okay, sure you are you ol' wino, go back to smoking your hash." 

"Yo yeah, I'm like, the chosen one and shit, and I'm gonna like, totally beat down this demon guy but, err, could you lend me a sword? Oh, and you'll need to give me a few months to train up." 

Aliens are always funny to defeat... I played the first Alien on Ps in 2D, and it was already great... I can't wait to play this game...



Wait.. I will certainly have to upgrade my computer... :( 

http://www.grimdawn.com/ looks awesome! 

Diablo 3 certainly is coming along isn't it? Wait... Grim who?  

i wish there were more hellgate games... like, diablo gameplay, just in 3d. 

played the demo last night, holy fuckballs it's amazing! Very, very satisfying combat - meaty as hell! And the executions and footstomp just fill me with glee every time I use them.

Fucking brilliant.

Should also mention, Relic did a great job with the pc version, supports like 6 different aspect ratio's, you can disable the windows key (heh) and lots of control options (you can disable mouse smoothing etc).