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Xbox 360 VS. PS3 Turok Edition
7:40AM Mark Wilson | Up until now, I couldn’t get enough Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3 side-by-sides. But after this direct HDMI feed from Turok, my mind is mush. The opening blacks look far better on the 360, but you lose sight of any contrast difference by the middle of the clip comparisons. Sometimes the PS3 has better textures, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the PS3’s full RGB gamut offers colors that pop a bit more, sometimes it doesn’t. Bottom line: if you have Turok for either of these next gen systems, you’re doing fine. And it seems that publishers are getting far better about their cross-platform quality control. UPDATE: It would appear that there was no control for the 7.5 IRE black level difference between US and Japanese NTSC standards. More »
Turok Developer Is Here To Listen
4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Turok’s teammate killing sure pissed people off! Developer Propaganda Games originally thought that it might be humorous to include an Achievement for killing a teammate. But that didn’t sit well with Xbox 360 users. So much so that developer Propaganda Games had to issue a patch. Does Propaganda have second thoughts about the whole dealio? Turok Associate Director states: A lot of folks got uptight about it when the Achievement list was leaked. They were yelling on the forums about how we’re awarding anti-social behavior. Won’t somebody think of the children and all that nonsense so, you know, to our credit we listened to the fan-base, and we patched the Achievement to remove that team-killing portion, so everything’s well in the universe once again. Never let it be said that we won’t listen to the fan-base and if there’s something that they feel really strongly enough about, we’re always willing to go back and take a second look. So noted! Turok Achievements [Multiplayer] More »
Turok – Awakening The Giants Part Four
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Part four of Touchstone’s five-part making of series Turok: Awakening The Giants is here, and finally they touch on the portion of the game I was most interested in – the voice actors. After a brief bit about level design, we get to see actors like Ron Perlman, Donnie Wahlberg, and Stargate’s Christopher Judge take a turn at lending their pipes to to game’s heroes and villains. I don’t think I will ever get used to seeing Judge without that golden Goa’uld forehead dealie. They seem to have managed to wrangle up every actor with a deep, rumbly voice ever, so expect your bass to get a real workout once Turok launches next week. More »
