Bionic Commando Rearmed Comments by Dan Whitehead
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asphaltcowboy
12/08/08 @ 23:49
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SWEET! Downloading first thing tomorrow! EDIT: Now I've read the review, I only have one thing to add... SWEET!
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barnard666
13/08/08 @ 04:23
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this will be around just in time for me when I get home from work in 3 hours, see there is a benefit to living in the far east. Looks great - but I still haven't finished 1942. and next weeks galaga is sure to make a purchase, and two weeks ago's geometry wars - ohhhh the pain - too many great games.
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Prodigy_BE
13/08/08 @ 05:41
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Also out on PC, so pirate away my PC brethren!
(I'll hold out for the PSN version, but hurry the F up already) |
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muscleblade
13/08/08 @ 07:35
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I knew i would be buying this 6 months ago. And no i dont bother with the trials. I never do.
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Briefly tried the demo and I like it... well it grabbed me (no pun intended) straight away unliked last week's Braid and it's slickly presented with English menus and text (except for the manual which is in Japanese). The demo has one level from the game, an excellent "virtual" tutorial and a couple of Challenge rooms. A definite buy for me I think. PS3 version seems to be a bit jaggy looking in places (no AA?) so I'll definitely have to try the 360 version before I decide which version to buy. Oddly I ended up playing it with the D-pad as it's easier to hit the diagonals for the bionic arm... the only thing is the 360's D-pad is hideous (to put it mildly) so I'll have to take that into consideration when deciding which version to buy.
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windowlicker
13/08/08 @ 08:04
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Shame that it is not coming to EU PSN til much later, 1942 still has not landed on it.
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asphaltcowboy
13/08/08 @ 08:06
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It's up on Marketplace!
Oh, and I hope it's not as difficult as the NES original! I tried playing it and can't get passed the first screen! |
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captainrentboy
13/08/08 @ 08:08
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Surely the ones that go for the Arcade package are the ones that couldn't give a flying eff about the 360's Marketplace and all its delightful contents in the first place :/
I'll probably get this later today, but then again GW2 is still eating up all my time, nothing irks me more than knocking it on and seeing that my work mates have somehow beaten all my bloody scores. |
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@Beano - Dunno, didn't get the chance to try it before I left for work but I'd imagine it will as 2X AA is very easy to do on the Xbox 360 (well except for Bungie who apparently don't even know what AA is!!!). The PS3 seems to have trouble doing proper AA in the majority of its game in my experience and has to resort to some kind of "temporal" (fake) AA instead in some but not all of its games. That's why many multiformat PS3 games tend to look inferior IMO, i.e. lower image quality. The PS3 demo of BC Rearmed doesn't look hideously jaggy or anything like that, just rougher than I expected it to.
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Kazzahdrane
13/08/08 @ 08:26
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It's a massive disappointment that there's no online co-op, they confirmed co-op for the game months ago (that was really the first I'd heard of it), and a mate and I assumed it would be online. Might well buy it anyway given the good review, but will be trying the trial first.
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@Darren: True, but other Capcom PSN/XBLA titles like Commando 3 and 1942 looks a but cleaner on PSN than XBLA.. no much but noticable on my TV. Both my PS3 and Xbox 360 are connected thru HDMI and set to 1080p :)
Does BCR output as 720p on PS3?... maybe the TV's 720p->1080p scaling is causing the issue (if any) ? Commando 3 and 1942 outputs as 1080p on PS3 but scaled from 720p.
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Hmmm, XBLA version is 213 MB and the PS3 Jap demo is 374 MB, that's a 76% difference in file sizes. Either the PS3 version is unoptimised, Japanese text takes up a hell of a lot of space and/or the Xbox 360 has some seriously impressive compression going on (which tends to degrade the quality of the textures and sound anyway). :?
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asphaltcowboy
13/08/08 @ 08:44
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Bought after 10 minutes! It's great! It's not quite as hard as the NES version, but it'll take some getting used to!
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IronCladChicken
13/08/08 @ 08:55
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Any chance they'll release the NES version on the Virtual Console (or is it already out(?))
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asphaltcowboy
13/08/08 @ 08:57
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@IronCladChicken: Apparently not. Supposedly they tried, but it would seem something stopped them (sounds like it was blocked by Nintendo) - LINK
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"Just tried both 360 and PS3 demos and can't see any difference with AA. "
I also tried the two version and no (or VERY close to none) difference ... both versions are a tad jaggy. No problem but could be smoother. A shame they didn't go for 1080p. The two versions even have a few framedrops at the exact same place in the start of the first level ;) Playing with the 360 analog stick also works fine, so the soddy 360 D-pad is not really a problem but the PS3 D-pad feels more precise to me :) |
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krokomkiller
13/08/08 @ 09:24
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"Jesus, this game is buggy. Tutorial level won't let me continue. Pressing exit in the menu does nothing, etc."
Took me a little while to figure out how to enter doors but I suppose thats not what you mean? |
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They should just rename Eurogamer to Darrengamer, the guy is in every comments section , such a nerd and really sucks all the fun out of the site. Go do somemthing else for a while Darren, you are on Eurogamer about 23 hours of every day.
Seriously, fuck off and get a life, I don't want to be faced with a wall of comments from you in every topic. @Nick_JC1 I hope you're joking....otherwise you're a rude jerk! |
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