Assassin's Creed

Post by **Chewi** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:29 am

Now I don't pay much attention to new games since I don't have the hardware to play them on but this caught my eye. I needn't say anything, the trailer speaks for itself.

http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/news.php?i=1405

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:56 pm

Now the difficult choice of which machine to get this on. I plan on having a PS3 before the end of the year. Achievements or better graphics? Damn

EchoPark · Post by **EchoPark** » Wed May 23, 2007 3:59 pm

lol yea but for me it comes down to the feel of the pad lol. I mean i rather play gtas on the ps2 but any racing for the xbox lol. I would need to see what the controls are like.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu May 24, 2007 12:41 am

I'll have a HD TV soon, I hope. So it's down to which system offers more. I'll sacrifice achievements and online play (especially because this doesn't look like a multiplayer) for great graphics.

XenoRaven · Post by **XenoRaven** » Thu May 24, 2007 1:34 am

The 360 version supposedly has better crowd A.I. because of the nature of it's processor and ability to multi-task. That may effect your decision in the end as well.

Either way, I'm really excited about this game. I actually don't quite know what to do with myself. I'll have Halo 3, SSBB, and Assassin's Creed at the end of this year. I'm gonna have to take some days off of work or something.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu May 24, 2007 10:15 am

Apparently 7 processors can't multi-task?

Anyway, that won't matter to me. Slightly better crowd AI that is just a rumour won't affect my decision. It literally will be the achievements and graphics at the end of the day. If the graphics are mind blowing on the PS3, I'll have to go with that, if there's not much difference, I'll go for the 360 version. Online capabilities and achievements really do make the 360 a winner over the PS3.

Which reminds me, my mate ended up getting a PS3 in the end, despite my plea. The GUI is terrible. Six Axis is a load of shit. Though, I see it coming in handy for racing games (steering wheels, anyone?) The only notable game I've seen that is better than the 360, graphics wise, is Motorstorm. Which would be alright, if that game wasn't a pile of shit.

kaos · Post by **kaos** » Thu May 24, 2007 10:18 am

I heard the same thing about the ai being best on the Box.
and if i remember right, thats not a rumor, thats out of the mouth of devs.

EchoPark · Post by **EchoPark** » Thu May 24, 2007 12:32 pm

its how the processor is designed not how much power it is ... look at AMD and intel, ur P4 could be doing 3.73ghz while the athlon 64 is doing 2,6ghz but there pretty much the same processor, they are just designed differently, intel is better at repetitive task as they try to predict the next instruction with the help of the 31 stage pipeline. While AMD only has a 12 stage pipline but its more efficiently runsa at a lower clock speed unless its doing repititive work.

Am still a lil of the noobish side of how processors work but thats pretty much it i think.

So when it comes to the cell processor its like the intel with the huge pipelines which would be great in the office and doing media encoding but on the gaming side its not as fast as it should. While the 360 uses a smaller pipline it can handle the gaming side a lil better.

It comes down to it speed is nothin, its how the processor is designed to handle gaming code.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu May 24, 2007 1:23 pm

But the point was multi-tasking :E

EchoPark · Post by **EchoPark** » Thu May 24, 2007 1:34 pm

all processors and os can handly mutli taskin ... its not MS Dos lol but just some processors can do it better than others in different means. While intel cell can do it with reptitive tasks and media ibm and most amds can do it in other means

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu May 24, 2007 2:26 pm

but surely 7 processors, no matter how they handle the data, can multi-task better than 3?

EDIT:

I mean, I thought that was the point to it having so many.

Bogey · Post by **Bogey** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:01 pm

I don't think that trailer impressed me as much as it should have, a load of pretentious slow motion crap I thought.

Oh, and 3 pies > 7 cakes. Pie ftw! Pies are so much more versatile.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:30 pm

Now, see that analogy made sense!

EchoPark · Post by **EchoPark** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:41 pm

theres a think called overkill. Like i say its about design not how many cores u can squezze in.

XenoRaven · Post by **XenoRaven** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:22 am

Don't ask me. That's just what I heard from Ubi.