Check some of these pics out
 

Just snapped these when playing rogue leader. cool: All taken in game.

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137.000 polygon star destroyer.


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Detail Detail Detail


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Under star destroyer

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Snow Speeder

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Tripping the ATST

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Loads of 200 polygon stormtroopers. In this level theres a few hundred of them.


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Snow speeder again.

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/cube%20pix/trip.jpg[/img]

Ive fallen and i can't get up biggrin:

i need a new computer...

[quote="Sargent_Scrotum":2e4db]i need a new computer...[/quote:2e4db]

urm its a gamecube game.


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Nothing I haven't seen before, considering that I got a GC and RL on release day. It really is a beautiful game though.

oh it is? i heard gamecube sucks.

[quote="Sargent_Scrotum":f4695]oh it is? i heard gamecube sucks.[/quote:f4695]

You heard wrong from whining ps2 fanboys who are upset their little system graphically can't cut it. biggrin:

[quote=Gerard]You heard wrong from whining ps2 fanboys who are upset their little system graphically can't cut it. biggrin:[/quote:fdad6]
So true. Actually, I have no problem with PS2. I like GC much better than PS2, but I still have some respect for it. It's Xbox that I don't like.

i find most of the gamecube games to be more kiddy & for younger people, i prefer X-box, what does everyone think of it?

[quote="Sargent_Scrotum":a9de3]i find most of the gamecube games to be more kiddy & for younger people, i prefer X-box, what does everyone think of it?[/quote:a9de3]

I have a whole rant typed out here on the "kiddy" view that people take and i may post it if warranted. :)

I have an xbox and its not a bad system, going to subscribe to that xbox live service tomorrow hopefully and have a try of unreal championship online .

I've never played Halo (gasp), but it's the only really good thing the system has going for it. Those monstrous controllers are horrible. Even worse than the PS2 controller.

As for GC being kiddy, my library consists of Rogue Leader, THPS3, Smash Brothers, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, Agent Under Fire, Nightfire, Metroid Prime, and Frontline. (Unless I'm forgetting any because I'm a couple hundred miles away from my GC.) The only one that is even remotely kiddy is SSBM, and that's not really once you start playing it.

For the cube i have, luigi's mansion ( dunno why i got that eek: ) mario sunshine, resident evil, frontline, smash brothers, rogue leader fifa 2002, wrestlemania x8. Think thats it :)

xbox has halo, pgr, nba inside drive (shudder basketball) doa-3, wwe raw, oddowrld munch's odysee. Think thats it there might be a couple of others though.

eatthis:

After working at EB for getting close to a year now, it's pretty obvious to me which console systems sell the best. Xbox and PS2. Both the Xbox and PS2 are fantastic consoles with both great games, good sides and bad sides.

The Xbox, graphically and power wise, is a much better performer than the other consoles, they barely touch it. Xbox has awesome DVD playback, a good range of titles (although it is still small) and Microsoft are really pushing it to succeed. Xbox Reps from Microsoft come around regularly, always cheerful and always great to talk too. The only problems I can see are most the games arent using the Xbox's true potential (and come out few and far between), therefore the games always look lacking in the graphics department. Halo, Halo 2, Splinter Cell, Unreal Championship and a few other titles do and will take advantage of it's power. I just wish more would.

The PS2 has a HUGE range of games and larger fanbase, obviously only because it's been out for longer. But thats about it. Poor DVD playback, the graphics, although still good, are starting to show their age compared to the other consoles. I have only once in all my time working there seen 1 Sony Rep actually come into the store and talk to us, even when we were talking it was all business, no friendly relaxed chat. Just rush rush rush. That put me off. The woman was hot, nice sexy Asian woman, but that still didnt make up for it. Anyway, on the whole, PS2 is good, but definately aging.

The GameCube. Well, I took one home to try out, and I thoroughly enjoyed Rogue Leader, absolutely awesome game, sadly, one of the very few on the GC that really did it for me. There are some better titles available now,, but out of the 3 consoles available, the GC has the most pathetic range, it's so obvious. PS2 covers roughly 1/3 of one of the walls, Xbox cover just under that, and GC hold an area on the backwall about 1.5 metres wide, about 2 high, and most of that room is filled up with overstock because we wouldnt have enough titles to cover the area if we packed them up and had only a few on display. Good little machine I've come to respect, but the lack of games really destroy it's potential.

Keep in my mind I have both an Xbox and PS2, so I'm not fan boy of any sort, if I had the money I would spend up and get a GC with some of it's better games, but that wont happen any time soon. In order from best to worst (in my opinion) it goes Xbox, PS2, GC.

Oh, by the way, nice pics Gerard biggrin: I love that Star Destroyer, very sexy wink:

When the hell are they going to get their heads out of their asses and make a PC Rogue Leader. Modern comps can handle that, just look at how bad Gaycube's Jedi Outcast looks compared to PC Jedi Outcast.

Im not buying Gaycube for one game

EDIT: I heard that they "borrowed" the Star Destroyer mission from X-Wing Alliance. It's the one that's trying to capture teh Death Star 2 plans on the Corvette, isn't it?

Depends on where you go as to whats selling well. In eurpope gamecube is outselling xbox, in the uk xox is marginally ahead of the cube by like 2500 units or so. America has the xbox and gamecube at each others throats fighting or second place.

Ps2 may have a load of games yeah but most of them are shite to put it bluntly. A lot of ps2 games shouldn't even get past quality control, the whole sony theory is to claim they have x amount of games even though out of that x amount of games maybe a handfull is any good.

What pisses me off is the amount of shoddy port overs the xbox and gamecube get. EA seems to develop specifically for ps2 and the 2 more powerful machines are handed leftovers of games that graphically could look a lot better. Fifa world cup for example had a lot of frame rate stutter on the xbox and its preyty obvious the machine is perfectly capable of running it as smooth as silk, but ea just ported over a version of the ps2 game and did nothing more to it.

I have frontline for the cube and while a good game it still has the crap ps2 textures making my eyes bleed everywhere. Is it so hard to sharpen the textures before porting the game? They included a multiplayer mode at least but the cube and xbox versions still suffer from slowdown when they obviously shouldn't.

Its about time games devolopers stopped sucking sonys balls and took advantage of the new hardware instead of the archaic ps2 hardware. Pisses me off no end having a £300 games console and a £200 games console only to get shitty port overs of games. cry:

At least companies like factor 5 and capcom realise the cubes hardware potential and same goes for the company that made splinter cell for the xbox.

WE DON'T WANT SHIT PS2 PORTS DAMMIT mwah:

considering that POS2 biggrin: is a 300MHz machine I can understand your anger. That's like still making games for those old Pentium 2s with Voodoo 1-3 cards.

[quote="Sgt Stryker":7ce21]I heard that they "borrowed" the Star Destroyer mission from X-Wing Alliance. It's the one that's trying to capture teh Death Star 2 plans on the Corvette, isn't it?[/quote:7ce21]



Borrowed nothing, its a lucasarts game which means they can use basically anything they want including missions from other games.

And "gaycube" [img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/Smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[quote="Sgt Stryker":ed125][/quote:ed125]


Its not that its slow, its actual clock speed is like 295.1mhz or something. Its the fact that it has an ass backwards coding system and internally its made of "custom components" which make it hard to code for. Xbox and gamecube are by far the easiest to code for so why don;t they start utilising them instead of a console thats so outdated.

[quote=Gerard]

Borrowed nothing, its a lucasarts game which means they can use basically anything they want including missions from other games.

And "gaycube" [img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/Smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img][/quote:a2c77]

if it wasn't lucasarts I would have said stolen, I know its their game but its still recycling missions. (If I guessed correctly on the plot that is)

[quote=Gerard]You heard wrong from whining ps2 fanboys who are upset their little system graphically can't cut it. biggrin:[/quote:73667]
well actually i got gamecube and xbox and i think gamecube sucks. Well actually there starting to make more good games but if any of you are thinking about getting GC, XBox, or PS2, get XBox, its great. Oh ya and the mario bro. games are good to, except for a couple.

It's strange really, how different continents have completely different buying sense. I'm at a loss as to explain why the GC is selling so well in Europe and the US. I doubt most the figures you've read take into account the amount of returns though wink: I think alot of people have got some buyers block against Microsoft products. To bad really, because the Xbox is a really great machine, far exceeds the PS2 in every possible way (except for game quantity, a point I totally agree with you Gerard. Most PS2 games are shit, I was going to put that in my last post but left it out for some reason.).

I'm sick of ports too. Most ports are of crap quality and should never have been started in the first place. If they are going to do a port of a PS2 title to the Xbox or GC, then they should bloody well take the time and use every little ounce of graphical and "CPU" power the better consoles have to make them look and play and perform better. But I guess thats where lazy developer syndrome kicks in. hake:

I guess I'm in the unique position where I dont need to purchase titles to play them. I can take them home and try them out, then return them. Ofcourse, every item I do take home is as much for entertainment value as it is for knowledge, and is always treated like 15th Century artwork. Sadly I've become quite jaded as far as games go these days, especially PC titles. Very bland at the moment.

you should write a book on this

[quote="Sgt Stryker":69828][quote=Gerard]

Borrowed nothing, its a lucasarts game which means they can use basically anything they want including missions from other games.

And "gaycube" [img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/Smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img][/quote:69828]

if it wasn't lucasarts I would have said stolen, I know its their game but its still recycling missions. (If I guessed correctly on the plot that is)[/quote:69828]

Gee whiz, you're a smart one, where did they dig you up from ay ? Rogue Leader is based loosely on the original movies so ofcourse you're going to be flying against the Empire trying to blow up Tie Fighters and Star Destroyers..... The only mission that Rogue Leader has that is similar to X-Wing Alliance in anyway is the Battle of Endor, but the Rogue Leader version is much better, a bit linear, but much better. I wish LucasArts would release a new Star Wars space sim taking advantage of the latest and greatest, would be bloody awesome.

Nah, dont have time for that kind of thing.

[quote=BallisticWookie][quote="Sgt Stryker":8c44c]if it wasn't lucasarts I would have said stolen, I know its their game but its still recycling missions. (If I guessed correctly on the plot that is)[/quote:8c44c]

Gee whiz, you're a smart one, where did they dig you up from ay ? Rogue Leader is based loosely on the original movies so ofcourse you're going to be flying against the Empire trying to blow up Tie Fighters and Star Destroyers..... The only mission that Rogue Leader has that is similar to X-Wing Alliance in anyway is the Battle of Endor, but the Rogue Leader version is much better, a bit linear, but much better. I wish LucasArts would release a new Star Wars space sim taking advantage of the latest and greatest, would be bloody awesome.[/quote:8c44c]

no I believe that the Star destroyer mission is almost a direct copy of the one where you are trying to save the disabled corvette from getting captured, except in Alliance the Corvette gets captured and you have to guide an escape pod to a friendly pirate dreadnought, then Vader and his damn Executor SSD get in the way.

Which mission in XW Alliance is this ?? Either way, I dont see a problem, you play as Ace in Alliance and he joins Rogue Squadron, and in Rogue Leader you obviously are in Rogue Squadron aswell. It seems entirely normal to me that there be some overlap between the 2 games...I mean, why not ?? It all adds to continuity and it's all Star Wars...I really dont see the problem here.

By the way the Executor r0><0rz !1!!!11!!!

you're right, at least there is more continuity than in the early games (ie Dark Forces and X-Wing)
And they definetly need to make a new Star Wars PC sim using the lastest tech.

My PS2 blows when it comes to playing DVDs. Is XboX really that much better?

Here is an an example of some of the shit ea talk. This is taken from page 7 of the moh frontline gamecube instruction manual.

[quote:91fd5] Highly detailed 3d environments and high-performance graphics engine takes full advanage of the advanced capabilities of the Nintendo Gamecube.[/quote:91fd5]

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Theres gotta be grounds for a lawsuit in that somewhere. The only difference the gamecube version has is it has a crap multiplayer mode using singleplayer maps chopped to pieces (spearhead anyone?) and the frame rate doesn't dip quite as much as the ps2 version. Thats taking FULL advantage of the game cube? Umm no.

"Metroid" looks pretty cool for GC! biggrin:

We have established that GC still sucks these screenshots prove nothing biggrin:

[quote="Capt. John Miller":e9ce6]We have established that GC still sucks these screenshots prove nothing biggrin:[/quote:e9ce6]

Aside from the fact that the ps2 "emotion engine" would probably blow up trying to render them. biggrin:

Fine by me, i jsut hate GC, its so ghey looking and its...for kids and young teens. PS2 might have shit games and alot of them, but atleast they keep a good assortment to stay alive. Plus they were smart for releasing the PS2 a year before the other consoles. they got the big head start.

[quote="Capt. John Miller":00045]Fine by me, i jsut hate GC, its so ghey looking and its...for kids and young teens. PS2 might have shit games and alot of them, but atleast they keep a good assortment to stay alive. Plus they were smart for releasing the PS2 a year before the other consoles. they got the big head start.[/quote:00045]

So if its for kids and young teens explain

Eternal darkness
Mortal kombat deadly alliance
Resident evil
Resident evil zero


All those games have loads of blood in them are rated M. If the console was aimed at kids nintendo wouldn't have allowed these to be made, obviously this isn't the case though.

I have decided that the only people that hate the GC and X-box are the ones who got the ps2 because they couldn't wait for any of the other next gen consoles. And now that they have it, they won't even try another system, or accept the fact that they have more power and/or are in fact better systems. Like I said earlier, everyone has their opinions, but atleast give every systema GOOD try before you go and judge. And GOOD doesn't mean 5 min at Best Buy's display center. Luckily I have had the chance to own two of the systems and play the GC plenty. I do agree with Slider that GC is geared a little more towards kids than x-box or PS2. but it still has some fun games. My step bro has one, and whenever I go over there I play that smash bros game with him. If it weren't for the pokemon then that game wouldn't be kiddy. And RS is pretty fun, but it kinda got boring. I still have to beat that level on the flying city thing. How do you beat that level anyways? the rockets keep blowing me out of the sky.

[quote="Sgt Stryker":6d6e9]I heard that they "borrowed" the Star Destroyer mission from X-Wing Alliance. It's the one that's trying to capture teh Death Star 2 plans on the Corvette, isn't it?[/quote:6d6e9]It is somewhat similar, yes.