Have just played through the first three levels with Spatial (who is on a NTSC 360, so it obviously does work). Great fun, despite me continuingly losing my silenced pistol rendering our stealth tactics a bit useless
Plus my headset was b0rked for some strange reason meaning I couldn't warm him about my badly timed grenade toss.
Screaming "****ing run!" at the screen obviously didn't help. Sorry about that Pete
I've fixed the headset now so I'll be up for another game at some point
I saw you take the grenades then you suddenly vanished. Next thing I know the room I was standing in exploded! I survived somehow though.
On the second level you are meant to go UP the lift then press the button to let me up, by the way. NOT sit on it while I send you up and down over and over again! I gave up in the end and found another way through. I've done that level three times now and each time I've taken a completely different route. Good stuff.
I was testing all the secondary functions of the weapons. Was wondering why the uzi threw to the ground. Tried to pick it up again. Whoops
On the second level you are meant to go UP the lift then press the button to let me up, by the way. NOT sit on it while I send you up and down over and over again!
I really hated this after the first level. BUT level 2, like the dumb Eurogamer review said... it clicked. Now it feels old SKOOL to the max and I like it. A lot. But I do need practice for multiplayer. Question though, whats the deal with the 'worlds best' things, often I will have one score higher and the rest will be lower (usually combat high, sleath 0 ) so does it only count if you get the best in every field?
This game is so much fun - just been playing co-op with Jebus, and the night club mission is great, the way the music works on the 5.1 is excellent, with it muffled like on the outside and getting more intense as you enter the building. The lighting again is great, when you see the shadows cast onto to the walls from the ambient light, and the bump and texture mapping.
If this isn't next gen, then I'm looking forward to what is - there is so much detail on all the 360 games I've played, but more than this, the Live integration takes things to a whole different level - more co-op PD0? Bring it on please.
How does PDZ compare in the technology stakes to the likes of Half-Life 2 and Far Cry?
I've been reading lots of people have been wowed by it, but from the screens and footage I've seen, it looks visually inferior to the above examples.
Graphically it certainly isn't any better than HL2 or FarCry (I actually think it looks worse, PDZ looks very cluttered). It would take quite a beast of a pc to run PDZ with a decent frame rate, though - a good grands worth. I think those who have been wowed by the visuals don't play games on the pc.
While good enough, I didn't buy PDZ for the visuals, but for co-op and a single player fps with some replayability. So far the co-op is great and i'm warming on the campaign (which doesn't feel anything like GE or PD I might add - more a run and gun, shoot from the hip, pc fps. Still fun, but not a patch on the original)
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