After returning to the world of Steam for the first time in 5 years...
...seems to be ok so far... game wouldn't start to begin with but I restarted Steam and it was fine.
First of all the graphics in this game are.... astonishing... some of the best ever in a game for sure.
Playing on high @ 1280x1024, bit of slowdown in areas with lots of people around but mostly a solid 70-50fps in combat areas so far.
Here's a couple of screenshots, click view image for fullsize;
Unfortunately you can't disable or enable advanced graphics effects which is annoying as Hell...
Might post more if I cba...
Damn.. the ******* bloom **** slows some scenes down to 20fps... ffs.
I was going to play in Russian but some of the background audio doesn't have subtitles so you'll miss some ambience... so for first playthrough I'm using English voices, which are kind poor really. I tested the Russian voices and they are fantastic... shame not everything is subtitled.. but the sentences of some characters loop so it gets repetitive so it's probably not a massive deal.
First person cutscenes are well done... really don't know why there are thirdperson scenes... doesn't really work too well in narrative.
Children in a videogame... omg!
More shots, even something simple like a sink has oodles of detail in it.
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Yet another game dev using cgtextures :P
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Character model detail is insane.
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Objectives clipboard is a cool idea and works well.
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I can see me falling in love with this game very quickly...
**** I just realised those are stretched, wrong res lol...
This game is freaking awesome! Already finished it two times on xbox. Loads of cool levels, very good reference for inspiration! Funny thing - they made a lot of features, which I had prototyped for my mod. Now everyone will say that I am coping this game. :)