L4D2... What's all the buzz about? This game is horrible.
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:04 am
Well, I picked up L4D2 2 days ago and I have to say I was HIGHLY disappointed, specially after everyone seems to make this title one of the top S3D games...
First, I discover with repulsion I had to install Steam, which led to so many install problems, it took me a good 30mn finding a work around from forums around the web. Once installed, I couldn't play past the intro; apparently something related to onboard sound chip and with bink videos (???). I went to the BIOS, turned off my audio, and was able to get into the options screen, turn off music, adjusted a few other settings, rebooted, turned the sound back on, rebooted again, and I was finally in, expecting to be blown out by the "wonderful" S3D immersion...
What a disappointment that was ! First, the 3d nvidia rating showed only as Good (huh). There must be a mistake I thought...
Despite pushing all my graphics settings to Max, I found all the rendering looking childish, cartoonish, oversimplified and with a lag of details that reminded me of Quake2 (don't get me wrong that game was one of the best,... at the time).
I found the gameplay and the feeling of immersion and being part of the story completely absent. If I wanted a pure shooter where the only strategy was to click/fire as quickly as possible, I could have stayed with Painkiller.
Man do I regret not having picked up RE5 instead... I weighted the pros and cons for both for a week. At least it looks like RE5 story was there...
As far as S3D is concerned, I didn't find myself able to adjust convergence and depth that made me feel inside. Yeah, some stuff pops in your face from time to time, but it goes by so fast there was no time to realize it before a swarm of rushing zombies are in your face and you have to start clicking/firing madly again. When outside, there was so many 3d artifacts (wrong depth mapping of most of the buildings), problems with the depth for many names and objects, etc...
Bottom line, what a waste of my time and money. I ended up downloading trackmania united nations (completely free from their website btw) to see what to expect from the upcoming trackmania2 and I had more fun with it than the whole hour I gave L4D2...
My advice, stay away from this if you are looking for smart gameplay and a feel of great 3d immersion...
I won't even put it in the top 10 list of games I played with S3D. I may actually completely uninstall it, along with the crappy steam... and possibly resale it on ebay.
Unfortunately, my conclusion is that L4D2 is crap ! I might just go to Bestbuy and get RE5 now...
First, I discover with repulsion I had to install Steam, which led to so many install problems, it took me a good 30mn finding a work around from forums around the web. Once installed, I couldn't play past the intro; apparently something related to onboard sound chip and with bink videos (???). I went to the BIOS, turned off my audio, and was able to get into the options screen, turn off music, adjusted a few other settings, rebooted, turned the sound back on, rebooted again, and I was finally in, expecting to be blown out by the "wonderful" S3D immersion...
What a disappointment that was ! First, the 3d nvidia rating showed only as Good (huh). There must be a mistake I thought...
Despite pushing all my graphics settings to Max, I found all the rendering looking childish, cartoonish, oversimplified and with a lag of details that reminded me of Quake2 (don't get me wrong that game was one of the best,... at the time).
I found the gameplay and the feeling of immersion and being part of the story completely absent. If I wanted a pure shooter where the only strategy was to click/fire as quickly as possible, I could have stayed with Painkiller.
Man do I regret not having picked up RE5 instead... I weighted the pros and cons for both for a week. At least it looks like RE5 story was there...
As far as S3D is concerned, I didn't find myself able to adjust convergence and depth that made me feel inside. Yeah, some stuff pops in your face from time to time, but it goes by so fast there was no time to realize it before a swarm of rushing zombies are in your face and you have to start clicking/firing madly again. When outside, there was so many 3d artifacts (wrong depth mapping of most of the buildings), problems with the depth for many names and objects, etc...
Bottom line, what a waste of my time and money. I ended up downloading trackmania united nations (completely free from their website btw) to see what to expect from the upcoming trackmania2 and I had more fun with it than the whole hour I gave L4D2...
My advice, stay away from this if you are looking for smart gameplay and a feel of great 3d immersion...
I won't even put it in the top 10 list of games I played with S3D. I may actually completely uninstall it, along with the crappy steam... and possibly resale it on ebay.
Unfortunately, my conclusion is that L4D2 is crap ! I might just go to Bestbuy and get RE5 now...