EA is claiming that their upcoming game, Army of Two, will offer up an identical experience on both consoles, but I'm trying hard to suppress that uneasy feeling after learning that the Xbox 360 is the lead platform for the game. In an interview with Videogamer, assistant producer Matt Turner commented on the two versions:
"It's been led on Xbox 360 and we put it on the PS3. It's because we have more experience in that medium. The PS3 is fairly new with a lot of development stuff. But as far as the gameplay goes on both consoles it's the same. There are no differences."
Not to take anything away from the Xbox 360, but wasn't it just last week that EA told us that they learned their lesson with Burnout Paradise? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and surmise that Army of Two was deep in development by the time they figured out that it's wiser to lead with the PS3 version if you want both platforms to have equal polish and quality. Does this mean that we can expect another so-so port on the PS3, or has EA finally come to grips with the hardware enough to cancel out the Xbox 360's advantage? Sony sure hopes so.
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8:50 AM on 02.12.2008
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Any word on the gun customization they touted so long ago and then went abnormally silent on? That was one of the biggest draws in the game to me at the time it was first revealed. Anyone know anything or heard anything I haven't?
Besides, I thought this was a 360 exclusive for the longest time! Plus, I heard this game sucked after the horrible script and terrible gameplay. It was supposed to be out already.. so we will see!
I wanted this game when i first saw it but now ive gone off the whole idea. Id much rather just play the Vegas co-op missions, specially with Vegas 2 being built around co-op!
Crap ?!
EA !??
Dial Tone ?
That is all....
As far as the scope on the nade launcher is concerned its most likely a range finder/laser designator/scope. Point the laser at the target you want to hit, click button, scope gets range, accounts for wind, puts a red dot on the scope, move your crosshairs to that and fire. A lot more accurate than wildly shooting grenades, but maybe not as fun.
Also, EA = Microsoft's best friend?
EA wants to find out a suitable living enviornment for oceanic fish. You have Cesium and NaCl (salt) to mix with water. The first experiment (analogy for 360 port to PS), they put the fish in the water with Cesium. Cesium + Water = very volatile and will explode. So the fishes die.
The second experiment (analogy to PS3 port to 360), they put the fish in the water with salt. The fish lives.
EA observes this, but decides to continue going with the first experiment, with the hopes that maybe, just maybe the water won't explode (analogy to them always using 360 as lead, and the games end up crapping out, but hoping that they won't with "don't worry about it")
Personally, though, I don't see myself playing this game online much --- This is one of those multiplayer things that has to be experienced side-by-side with whoever's playing with you.
Well, I wasn’t particularly interested in this game to begin with, but now that interest has pretty much gone down to zero. They’re claiming that the game will play the same on both consoles, and even if that’s true, the graphics probably won’t be identical, so there’ll be a trump card for 360 owners anyway. Hopefully, going forward, EA can lead development with the PS3 version.
You're way off base with your estimate.
While Sony is a consumer electronics/movie/music juggernaut they do NOT have more money than Microsoft or even annual revenue.
At one estimate almost 95% of the world's computers ran on windows based architecture. Microsoft has a firm hold on the IT/OS/Electronic Media/Web marketplace.
Just take a look at their recent bid (though currently rejected) to acquire Yahoo to the tune of around 45 Billion dollars.
2 player co-op rules!
you're a tool, they are both huge companies, but sony profit last quarter was almost 2 billion, while MS was almost about 4 billion
here :
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY07/earn_rel_q1_07.mspx
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/sony-quarterly-profit-rises-25-percent/n20080131050609990006
http://valleywag.com/348723/microsoft-reports-record-quarterly-revenue
Fuckin lol. MS is the 66'th biggest company in the world. Sony is at 164. Jackass.