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Devil May Cry 4 PC Demo Hands On

xtremefunktions — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:14:35 +0000

I’m a fan of DMC but i have not play the latest installment of DMC as i dont own a PS3 or Xbox360. However, i was please that Capcom has decide to release this game on the PC platform.

The demo was released yesterday (SG time) and it totally slip off my mind to download it when i came back from work. Today then i remember about this and i quickly went to download it.

The download file size is 804MB which is pretty big but since im already to download file at 1MB/Sec flat, there isnt much problem for me.

The extraction to complete installation of the demo was a bit long for my rig is only a single core, AMD Athlon64 3700+ (AKA San Diego) processor.

Before the start of the game, i was given a few options to choose. Start the game in directx 9 version, directx 10 version (gray out), controls (gamepad) and quit.

I start of by choosing gamepad as i have my wired xbox360 controller plug in. Seeing too much buttons, i freak out and went ahead to start the game.

I went to pc settings and went to video to see what settings the game had set and it was all at high quality graphics. AA was turn off and i went to crank it at 2x and hit the apply to take effect.

I was then greeted by a black screen and a bar at the bottom right corner of the screen. After sometime of waiting (maybe due to my processor) i was back at the main menu again.

Was curious of the performance test and i went in to check it out.

This performance test was a benchmark for your system. At the bottom left corner of the screen will display the current FPS, system processor, graphic card and resolution.

The 1st benchmark test i got on average of 40+ FPS. 2nd was base on forest or jungle settings and got an average of 30 FPS. The last benchmark was 30+ or 40+ FPS (cant remember). Since i dont know how long the benchmark gonna take and my hands are itch to button mash my controller, i quit the performance test with a breeze by pressing ESC on my keyboard.

Selected start the main menu and i was given 2 choices. Mission Extermination or Mission Executioner and i choose Mission Executioner.

The mission start with Nero and i shown the controls scheme but i was too lazy to read as i couldnt remember them until i know press and know each button does. The settings for this level is on a snowy place and progress a bit future and i end up dead. When you are dead, there are other options that you can choose but they are now gray out. So the only available selection is quit which will bring you back to the main menu.

After choosing that, a Coming Soon screen will appear and back to main menu.

Choose Mission Extermination this time round and immediately after the game starts, you will definitely notice a 10min countdown. After some walking, i realize the current location is the same location that was the 1st DMC4 trailer release.

There are few scenes and 1 particular caught my attention. A scene which has Nero walking towards a half ball half skull and he says “What the hell?” and it has subtitle being display. I didnt really expect a subtitle to be in there, pre-render? Not so sure about this.

With the time counting down on my last minute, i was surprise to see the location i was in. Nero is currently in the snowy place that starts of Mission Executioner.

The time gets lesser and lesser and on the 1 minute 28 secs mark, i was defeated by the same monsters that defeated me in Mission Executioner.

I have to say, the graphics looks very good despite im only running on a XFX Geforce 7800GT. Loading wise was there wasnt any i can notice of once the game starts.

I guess i will hang onto this copy of demo until the game comes out in July 8, 2008.

In the mean time, if you wish to hack and slash like me in DMC, be sure to download it from the link below and while you wait for the download to be completed, you might want to tease yourself with some screenshots that i took myself ingame.

Download: http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/devilmaycry4/demo/24273.html

Ellen Gives Out Wii & Wii Fit

xtremefunktions — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:53:22 +0000

On Wednesday, Ellen showed some exclusive scenes from some of the summer’s biggest blockbusters. She also gave away some blockbuster prizes!

http://ellen.warnerbros.com/2008/05/movie_previews_and_free_gifts.php

O M G !!!!

Burnout Paradise PC In Ultra Widescreen

xtremefunktions — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:48:02 +0000

from kotaku.com

EA’s Burnout Paradise Revs Its Engines on the PC

xtremefunktions — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:40:25 +0000

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Criterion Games, a studio of Electronic Arts, (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that the award-winning driving game Burnout™ Paradise is being rebuilt specifically for the PC. Burnout Paradise will be the first Burnout title ever made for the PC, customized with expanded multiplayer, enhanced online features, and community driven content.

Originally released for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360™ videogame and entertainment system, Burnout Paradise has won over 55 awards worldwide. Burnout Paradise delivers an open-world environment built for intense speed, excitement and exploration and sets a new standard in the seamless transition from single-player offline to social online gameplay.

Burnout Paradise for the PC will combine all the open world racing, intense speed and action of the original game with new gameplay for the PC version.

Gamers can tune into a live webcast at http://criteriongames.com at 8:00 AM PST on Friday, May 9 for more details on this announcement. For more information about Burnout Paradise, please visit http://criteriongames.com or the EA press website at http://info.ea.com.

Burnout Paradise for the PC has not been rated by the ESRB or PEGI.

You saw it here first.

These are the first ever shots of a Burnout game running on the PC.

But to understand how awesome these shots are, you really need to see them in their native resolution!

What you can see, if you click through to our Flickr site , select “All Sizes” and then “Original” is 1920 x 2400 images taken straight from the game!

The PC allows us to experiment with a variety of multi-screen configurations, so we thought we’d try out a double-screen huge portrait image of the game.

Here you can see Tarquin playing an epic Paradise session.

This is Paradise City as you’ve never seen it!

Like everything else on this site, we’re haven’t treated these images in any way – they’re just output direct from the PC in real time. so naturally that’s 60Hz progressive.

We don’t want to waste time making our work-in-progress look finished, so there’s never any touch-up, up-res or faked game imagery. You get to see what we’re building as we build it!

And in the case of PC Paradise, the game just spits out unbelievably fine shots, even at this early stage of development.