Just about 15 months ago, the world finally found out what Valve Software had been working on since the release of Half-Life on the PC in 1998. At E3 2003 Valve announced Half-Life 2, a brand new first person shooter featuring amazing graphics, unique game play and a brand new physics engine that Valve said would revolutionize PC gaming. At this year's E3, Valve showed off the multiplayer portion of Half Life 2, better known as Counter-Strike: Source.
Counter-Strike: Source is essentially the Counter-Strike you know and love ported over to Valve's Source Engine, the engine that Half-Life 2 was built on, as well as the engine that will be used in many games that will be released in the coming months, including Vampire - The Masquerade.
News source: VR-Zone
Counter-Strike: Source is essentially the Counter-Strike you know and love ported over to Valve's Source Engine, the engine that Half-Life 2 was built on, as well as the engine that will be used in many games that will be released in the coming months, including Vampire - The Masquerade.
News source: VR-Zone
This leaves Nintendo, once again, with a lot of titles that are bound to gather critical acclaim - and almost certainly deservedly so - but with the exception of Metroid Prime 2 not that many that are likely to scythe through the competition during a hectic Christmas rush.
Any GBA owners bound to an elderly relative's couch this Christmas won't have too much to worry about, however, with a number of exciting titles due on the handheld - despite the impending launch of the Nintendo DS, which is due out in Europe in early 2005. In fact, it'll be interesting to see how GBA sales fare in the run-up to Christmas purely on that basis.
We'll be in the queue though, busily scrabbling to get hold of Mario Golf Advance Tour (Sept 17th), the eagerly awaited The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Nov 12th), Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nov 19th), and - for the sake of working out what it is more than anything - "Super Mario Ball" (Nov 26th). Square die-hards will be pleased to see Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls down for early December, too.
Key exclusives due out on Nintendo platforms in the run up to Christmas:
GameCube
Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Party Game$ - September 3rd
Animal Crossing - September 3rd
Pikmin 2 - October 8th
Donkey Konga - October 15th
Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year Door - November 12th
Tales of Symphonia - November 19th
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - November 26th
Game Boy Advance
Mario Golf Advance Tour - September 17th
Pokemon Leaf Green/Fire Red - October 1st
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap - November 12th
Mario vs. Donkey Kong - November 19th
Super Mario Ball - November 26th
Mario Party Advance - December 3rd
Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls - December 10th
i guess what i meant it is nice for once to see both vendors getting pretty much identical numbers on a game, only exception here is 1600 * 12000 with 4xAA an 8xAF
But I thinkt that applies to the previous generation.
i just say wait and see when its officially out i'm 100 % sure it will be quite different
like they said at the start its not the real benchmark utilities and i really think that these results are false. just wait for the officials one.
Another thing is that the image quality is way better with ATI when you look at screenshots. Even the 9800 pro is better than the geforce 6800 ultra.
x800 pro too is very near of the x800 xt and has 4 pipeline , 75mhz vpu and 200 mhz ddr3 less ...
so what you say about this ?? the performance are caped because of the cpu ?? it's an athlon 64 3800+ ..
LOL they are using a beta, wait its so flaky that its more like an alpha. Anyway they are using an unfinished game & just ONE map to benchmark ? Ha ha
Shows the maturity of the guys at VR-Zone, what a bunch of 15 yr old kids.
LOL, they even admit that "there's some sort of cap" when allmost all cards perform exactly same.
It does appear that the Source engine is much more budget videocard friendly than that OTHER game, you know, with the zombies and stencil shadows and stuff...
But I think it's funny some people will get the same FPS in HL2 that they do in HL with an ATi card.
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