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Sin Episodes: Graphics and Gameplay - briefly
(hx) 06:53 PM CEST - May,13 2006 - Post a comment / read (2)
With the recent launch of the first chapter, Bit-tech takes a look at the game and runs it through the washer on a myriad of video cards ranging from high end to mid range:
The good news is that this continues with SiN Episodes, which is even missing the recent HDR eye candy Valve added to Source - the only potential snag for gamers with older hardware. We were aiming to run the game at the native 1280x1024 resolution of our ViewSonic 19" LCD and as you can see, we succeeded.

The bad news is that GeForce 6-series cards don't support Transparency AA, so the image quality wasn't the same as for our high-end system. However, we were still able to apply 4x of vanilla AA on the GeForce 6800 GT OC and the Radeon X850XT, and 2xAA on the slower 6600 GT OC and X1600XT cards.

We began testing at Maximum Detail but it was painfully obvious that this was not an option at 1280x1024. We were forced to drop to Medium Textures and Medium Models to achieve the framerates you see here. For anyone who really wants to run at high detail, we would suggest a drop to 1024x768 and lower levels of AA. CRT gamers can get away with this quite happily but anyone with an LCD will need to check how well their panel scales away from native resolution.

At the end of the day, the best yardstick is Half-Life 2 itself - if you know you can run that at an acceptable speed, you won't have any problems playing SiN Episodes. This included our 1.6GHz Centrino notebook with ATI Mobility FireGL T2 graphics - equivalent to a 9700 Pro 128MB. It's not as pretty as our desktop systems but it still ran just fine. In this context SiN Episodes would prove a great alternative to yawnsome inflight movies.

They also claim that they "completed this first episode in around five hours on a normal difficulty and had a great laugh doing so".
last 10 comments:
xxxx(02:04 AM CEST - May,14 2006 )
@Sin

5 hours and no mp, thanks but no thanks. Even with the nude patch.

xxxx(03:44 PM CEST - May,15 2006 )
Well I got this game, free and it's not bad. If you got $20 to waste it's worth it I guess, having now played it. But don't expect exceptional gfx. They are decent, about on par with HL2 itself but definitely not better..Narrative is ok though I really have no clue on what the overall plot is. AI pretty easy and it's set to dynamic AI though I have yet to have any problems killing em. And there is always the easy tactic of hiding behind something where the computer can't see you easily and you can literally sit there and pop off every bad guy. It's rare when they throw a nade to force you out.

I think if these guys lower their price to a more realistic $9.99 or $7.99 US per episode I'd be interested in forking out the money, but in the meantime I will stick to me 'free' versions. I am more interested in the MP side of this game so I hope they output something soon, I'll buy simply that portion. I don't know, it's entertaining but even after playing as much as I did, I can't see myself paying $20 an episode..

9 episodes x $20 = $180 which is WAY TOO EXTREME for a game..Total Ripoff imo.

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