I installed the game a short while ago.
Here are some early impressions:
Technically, the game is still a disaster. Having to play in 640*480 in order to get consistent frame rates is unacceptable (performance is just as bad as in the demo, if not worse). Other technical quirks are annoying as well. The game drops to the desktop for 5 seconds at the beginning of every new level (using Windows XP SP1), which frequently draws me out of the gaming experience. And for some reason, I should be able to adjust video and sound settings as I choose, yet even in the final it's required to do .ini editing for simple things such as enabling Trilinear filtering and detail textures. Not to mention that the game doesn't automatically save new video and control settings. Instead, these are defaulted at each new start-up and only activated when you load your save game. Out of my head I would also wish for a smaller, less awkward looking font.
The graphics are as a whole are quite nice though, just not on the level of the early videos and screenshots. I heard pretty negative things about the physics, but am enjoying them so far. Basketball's don't bounce as they should, but chairs and other objects work realistically.
With all these negative things being said, I must admit I'm still enjoying the game. A lot. The music is excellent and moody, the story is slowly starting to develope (the installation hinted at 5 or 6 different endings by the way) and I simply can not wait to see how Ion Storm included some of the original characters into the new storyline.
Less talking, more playing...
Here are some early impressions:
Technically, the game is still a disaster. Having to play in 640*480 in order to get consistent frame rates is unacceptable (performance is just as bad as in the demo, if not worse). Other technical quirks are annoying as well. The game drops to the desktop for 5 seconds at the beginning of every new level (using Windows XP SP1), which frequently draws me out of the gaming experience. And for some reason, I should be able to adjust video and sound settings as I choose, yet even in the final it's required to do .ini editing for simple things such as enabling Trilinear filtering and detail textures. Not to mention that the game doesn't automatically save new video and control settings. Instead, these are defaulted at each new start-up and only activated when you load your save game. Out of my head I would also wish for a smaller, less awkward looking font.
The graphics are as a whole are quite nice though, just not on the level of the early videos and screenshots. I heard pretty negative things about the physics, but am enjoying them so far. Basketball's don't bounce as they should, but chairs and other objects work realistically.
With all these negative things being said, I must admit I'm still enjoying the game. A lot. The music is excellent and moody, the story is slowly starting to develope (the installation hinted at 5 or 6 different endings by the way) and I simply can not wait to see how Ion Storm included some of the original characters into the new storyline.
Less talking, more playing...