"Alex
Taldren" has posted an interesting article comparing PC gamers
to our console brethren. Call of Duty 4 is pretty much identical across
the PC, 360 and PS3, however the user ratings on Gamespot vary slightly
across the three platforms with PC gamers rating the game the lowest.
Since Halo is the benchmark for all FPS games to be released for
consoles, it is obvious, at least to most PC gamers that play FPS games,
that console gamers' expectations for FPSs are much lower. When your
best titles come in the form of the Halo series, which don't look so
great or innovative compared to many PC titles such as Half-Life 2 or
the upcoming Crysis, it is hard to be disappointed. The most recent
example of this is Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
It makes for a great read although maybe ~17 & 26 (PC & PS3 ratings) is
too few statistically to compare to 96? (360) It is refreshing to see
this data included in the comparison rather than being omitted in order
to artificially give the story more authenticity and I do have to give
AT praise for this!
Whilst the games themselves are likely to be similar in terms of content
and graphics (at stock), the fact is that the PC is a heterogeneous
platform unlike the two consoles. As a result, the gaming and graphical
performance can and most likely will vary from setup to setup. Also of
note will be if any nasty DRM / Copy Protection is used in the PC
version as this can have a detrimental effect in some cases - Starforce
anyone? This is about the only way in which I believe consoles to be
superior to the PC, simple, quick, homogenous and playing perfectly out
of the box. It will be interesting comparing these numbers again in a
few weeks to see how they change as more people rate the games across
the platforms.
Posted by
Konrad at
9:10 PM
Edited on: 07/11/07 9:21 PM
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