Sim City 4 Comments by Martin Taylor
First Impressions - Martin tucks into Maxis' latest city builder
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The curious mix of both 2D and 3D graphical effects appear to take their toll on system performance though - the preview code we’ve been playing has been keen on crashing with irritating regularity, and when it isn’t asking whether or not we’d like to quit due to the game’s instability, it fluctuates between frame rates of seven to seventy-five. Hopefully the inconsistency of the engine’s performance can be ironed out and optimised before we receive final code
What kind of 'rig' were you playing it on ?
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xbox wont be able to cope because of the controllers for that thing...
people really should use that as an argument against a game... there are zillions of games that would be better on other platforms just because of the controller but get dumbed down to be playable on the mass market platforms... (not to say the opposite isnt true, lots of games are overly complicated with weird combinations that could have been optimized to a better design) |
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xbox wont be able to cope because of the controllers for that thing...
Well, it wouldn't be ideal but you could create something that worked. I don't see any reason to not release a game on a particular platform just because it doesn't have a mouse. I mean, what's to do here - move around a bit and click? Should be a piece of cake. |
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BartonFink
13/11/02 @ 11:13
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[Blerk] - 13-Nov-2002
Xbox would not be able to cope. Why? Um .... because it is rubbish ? *runs for the bomb-shelter /me takes off and nukes Errols bomb shelter from orbit. But seriously why not? Apart from the controller thing - agreed it would not be ideal for games like this. (MS should get off yer ass and give us a mouse, only for this type of game though) I would hardly stretch the xbox to do somthing as paltry as this, would it?
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I'd like to make a correction to my article - this article tells us that Sim City 4 is in fact entirely 3D. Thanks to Sprak for the link.
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"I'd like to make a correction to my article - this article tells us that Sim City 4 is in fact entirely 3D. Thanks to Sprak for the link."
Yep but it's 3D in a way that only Tory Politicians can describe 3D...(I think what most people meant was "does it use a properly-rotational 3D engine or just another 'forced perspective with 3d help' one) the answer is the latter.... Peej |
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terminalterror
13/11/02 @ 20:40
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That aside, at least Maxis have finally admitted that they can't do a properly-rotational 3D version (not with hardware the way it is!)
They can, but it wouldn't look nearly as good as it currently does. |
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