Bioshock!

[The Groke]

Interesting. Cheers mate

Can't wait to get home and play the demo again, loved it.

Me too - I didn't actually finish it last night as it didn't finish downloading until 1.30am.


I have been quite tired today at work.

 

[Lucan Vortex]

Ooh!

Not that I don't trust you or nuttin, but do you have a source?

I really don't wanna plonk down 35 quid for the US version (we get both PAL and NTSC as standard here in Dubai) only to find that it doesn't work in my UK console....

Lead Programmer good enough for you?

 

[The Groke]

Lead Programmer good enough for you?

that'll do nicely guv'nor - cheers.

 

[Lucan Vortex]

Un-fucking-believable. I finally managed to finish downloading the Bioshock demo, and I get to the lighthose and the machine crashes, and 3 red lights me; less than a month after being 'repaired'

At this rate, I'll not get to play Bioshock, Mass Effect, Halo3 or Ace Combat 6, as the fucking thing will be in the repair shop.

Poor show Microsoft, very poor show

 

[Crispy]

I am so waiting for the 'Phoenix' hardware revision before I get a 360.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Un-fucking-believable. I finally managed to finish downloading the Bioshock demo, and I get to the lighthose and the machine crashes, and 3 red lights me; less than a month after being 'repaired'

At this rate, I'll not get to play Bioshock, Mass Effect, Halo3 or Ace Combat 6, as the fucking thing will be in the repair shop.

Poor show Microsoft, very poor show

Gutted

Is there any conclusive evidence that it's a particular batch that suffers these problems? I must just be lucky, 'cos mine's not even crashed.

 

[The Groke]

Gutted

Is there any conclusive evidence that it's a particular batch that suffers these problems? I must just be lucky, 'cos mine's not even crashed.

yeah, seconded.




I am really, really tempting fate here but;

I got my Xbox very early on in the first wave that came out the Christmas they were released and I have yet *winces* to have any problems at all with it.

 

[Lucan Vortex]

It really is luck (oh irony) of the draw if you get a bad one, nevermind two of the buggers

The new Falcon chipsets are rumoured to be out in the States now (nothing conclusive mind, as someone pulled apart one of the new HDMI enabled Premiums and it had the new Ben-Q quiet drive and re-jigged mobo, but no new 65 silicon) but nothing has been said as to their availability in Europe. I think Microscoft (seems that's what they're doing to me) want to sell all their old Premium and Core units before rolling out the updated model.

Which of course will gain them lots of positive press

 

[ChrisFilter]

Played the demo again last night, again, just fucking wow

 

[Xanadu]

Hmmm, wonder what sort of detail my machine will be able to run it at...

My machine:
Core2Duo E6600
2GB RAM
Ati X850XT 256Mb

 

[The Groke]

Hmmm, wonder what sort of detail my machine will be able to run it at...

My machine:
Core2Duo E6600
2GB RAM
Ati X850XT 256Mb

From the official forums - a developer posted:

BIOSHOCK PC SPECIFICATIONS

Operating Systems:
Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) or
Windows Vista


Minimum System Requirements:
CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz Single Core processor

System RAM: 1GB

Video Card: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550).

Sound Card: 100% direct X 9.0c compatible sound card

Hard disc space: 8GB free space


Recommended System Requirements:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo processor

System RAM: 2GB

Video card:
DX9: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better)
DX10: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better

Sound Card: Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series (Optimized for use with Creative Labs EAX ADVANCED HD 4.0 or EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 compatible sound cards)

Important Note: Game requires Internet connection for activation

Based on that, I reckon you will be Ok.


It runs like a fucking peach on the 360 - super smooth and no tearing unlike other games I have seen.

 

[ChrisFilter]

It runs like a fucking peach on the 360 - super smooth and no tearing unlike other games I have seen.

It really does, doesn't it? Never seen a PC game run that smoothly ever..

 

[Xanadu]

From the official forums - a developer posted:




Based on that, I reckon you will be Ok.


It runs like a fucking peach on the 360 - super smooth and no tearing unlike other games I have seen.

Probably won't be able to run it at high detail though.

I still remember the original system shock - bloody loved that game!

 

[Jambooboo]

Holla Woot!

This has just landed on a couple of private trackers I'm a member of (has had 500+ people jump on it in the minutes it's been available!). Not got any blank dual-layers though so it'll be tomorrow before I get a go.

Oh and it's region free btw.

 

[The Groke]

This has just landed on a couple of private trackers I'm a member of (has had 500+ people jump on it in the minutes it's been available!). Not got any blank dual-layers though so it'll be tomorrow before I get a go.

Oh and it's region free btw.

Yeah, apparently Toys R Us in the States starting selling it early in a few stores.

I will be buying my US copy here in Dubai on Tuesday.


I can wait.

 

[mauvais]

Hold on - when's the PC release date?

 

[The Groke]

Hold on - when's the PC release date?

According to IGN it is the same as the 360; 21st for US and 24th for UK

 

[mauvais]

Shit - how did I miss that coming? Ace!

 

[Crispy]

review - they like it

 

[The Groke]

review - they like it

Bloody hell do they!


Not often you get Eurogamer piling on the superlatives like that.





I will be praying fervently to the god of Xboxes that mine will continue to remain ring-of-death free until I have completed this.

 

[The Groke]

Chrisfilter (and others) - back on the topic of headphones, you may want to check these out


XBox 360 certified/designed surround headphones with mic.

 

[The Groke]

Games Radar also creamed themselves over it.

Your skirmishes take place in an environment bristling with manipulable elements. Drones, turrets and security cameras are the most obvious, but there are also fuel puddles that can catch fire, and water that any burning Splicer can be counted on to run towards - which can then be electrified. Detritus, grenades, missiles and even fireballs can be sucked up and flung, and your enemies themselves can be subverted to do your work - directly or otherwise.

Only a handful of the standard weapons are really interesting or satisfying when used alone, but mix them with a generous menu of Plasmids in an environment like this and they become spectacular. Even with an element as familiar as the grenade launcher’s proximity charge, the scope for impishly inventive violence is overwhelming. Clump five on a barrel and propel the resulting super-bomb at a crowd of victims with Telekinesis. Chuck one in the nearest pool of water then set your prey alight. Stick one on the ceiling directly above a Cyclone Trap - an invisible springboard that catapults unsuspecting enemies hilariously into the air. The AI for a befriended drone even has some ideas of its own: bolt a proximity charge to the little guy and he’ll divebomb the next enemy he sees.

 

[The Groke]

For the PC owners:

The final geekily gratifying thing about the PC version is how well it runs. It was dazzlingly beautiful and hitchlessly smooth on a machine with an Athlon X2 5200 and a single entry-level GeForce 8800 - running DirectX 9. And this was at 1600x900 on max settings.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Not often you get Eurogamer piling on the superlatives like that.

Quite.. I note that they stopped short of saying 'best game ever', but it seems they really wanted to.

So excited about this.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Chrisfilter (and others) - back on the topic of headphones, you may want to check these out


XBox 360 certified/designed surround headphones with mic.

Call me a dunce, but I don't get how they'd hook up to the xbox? I've got mine hooked up to a tft flatscreen, so the output is a vga cable and 2 standard white/red rca audio cables. Can 5.2 sound transmit through the rca cables? These things confuse the hell out of me, and I'm a techie!

 

[Crispy]

They connect to the optical audio out port, which carries the full 5.1 stream.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Oooh, is there another port that I hadn't noticed?

In that case, headphones: WANT.

 

[The Groke]

Oooh, is there another port that I hadn't noticed?

In that case, headphones: WANT.

IIRR the optical port is actually in the base of the AV cable at the XBox end.....

 

[Lucan Vortex]

Please don't talk about how good Bioshock is, it makes me sad for my (2nd) missing 360

hope all of your 360's 3red light as you load it up

 

[ChrisFilter]

IIRR the optical port is actually in the base of the AV cable at the XBox end.....

Ah, fingers crossed my third party VGA cable also has this.