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Old 06-02-2008, 12:20 PM  
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So, I never played this on the 360, and I picked it up for the PC. Holy christ, big mistake.

The PC version has so many game breaking bugs, including fun little moments when you suddenly have no control of your character, yet action goes on around you just fine. You can't ESC out to the menus or anything, forcing you to kill the process in Task Manager. On top of that, there are random renderer errors that pop up a dialog box you can't click, nor can you interact with the game that's (again) running just fine. Killing the process is the only way out.

If you have SLI, you'll find that the game runs great, except for one section (for those of you that played, it's the Citadel Tower), which slows to a crawl. If you disable SLI, that section magically runs faster.

I have a few minor issues with it as well, like the lack of 360 pad support (though Bioware's reps made several posts to the forums swearing up and down that there would be support), a useless achievement system that's not connected to anything where it would matter, motion blur acting really weird on elevators, and other stuff.

Otherwise, I'm having fun. If you have a 360 and a PC, play the 360 version. Avoid this piece of shit port as if it sprayed airborne AIDS in your face.
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Old 06-02-2008, 12:26 PM  
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Thanks for the heads up - I was thinking of getting it when it releases in the UK next week. I'll wait a bit and see if they patch the bugs out.
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Old 06-03-2008, 01:41 AM  
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Ah, I don't have a 360 and was looking forward to it coming out on PC. I guess I can busy myself with my various other projects (Like AoC and Bioshock on the PC), and hopefully in a few months when I remember I wanted it again, they will have patched it up to playable.
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This game was bad ass for the xbox, Im still playing it and my characters are 65 i think
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Amazing game on the 360. Very addictive
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I wish I had got it for the 360 instead.
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Old 06-04-2008, 01:33 PM  
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I just hope the "Bad Assness" eventually patches into the PC. I have an awesome Quad Core System I just built a month ago, and I have no desire to buy a Three-Shixty. But i'd like to try the game.
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Old 06-04-2008, 02:01 PM  
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and I have no desire to buy a Three-Shixty
But Gears 2 in November!
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