Re: King Kong - Prettier on XBOX 360 than PC?


"Pluvious" <Pluvious@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:56:11 GMT, Smart Feet <smartfeet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>|Kahn wrote:
>>|> I played the 360 demo in the store, and it looked nice, and although
>>|> admittedly I have not seen the PC version, I did not see anything in
>>|> the 360 version that could not be done on the PC.
>>|>
>>|> It seemed to have some very nice, "glisteny" lighting effects using
>>|> High Dynamic Range or something similar.
>>|>
>>|> Is there something else the 360 version has that I missed? Is the
>>|> fact that it looks better on the 360 strictly due to the fact that the
>>|> lighting effects on the PC version are not taking advantage of the
>>|> latest and greatest PC hardware?
>>|
>>|
>>|The PC version you can buy online directly from the publisher has the
>>|higher resolution textures of the 360 version and looks the same. The
>>|store bought PC version has lower resolution textures and doesn't look
>>|as good.
>
> Nice heads up.. I checked it out and sure enough you can purchase a
> version that
> requires 2GB ram and 3.0Mhz+ Proc. That's the one I would want. They claim
> a
> demo is downloadable.. but all you get is a 'program' to run that
> downloads the
> 6gig game. .. accept.. it says no trial available once you install it.
> hmmm..
>
> Pluvious
>
>

Sorry, I know its a typo but presumably that's a 3 Ghz CPU? Oh and of course
it would only have to be 3 Ghz+ for an Intel CPU - the AMD equiv being a
3000+ AMD64?

BillL


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