Ryse - A not-so-exclusive XBOX One title by Crytek

    It's not good, but it's not bad. Edge tends to have lower scores because it considers 5/10 average, rather than like most gaming publications that for some reason have settled upon about 70–80% as being average. I didn't actually look at the score though, I read the review which seemed to be mostly positive about it while admitting the combat lacks depth.


    It does seem like a lot of mixed reviews are popping up on Metacritic now. Kind of disappointing but we'll see what the average is after a few days. The main complaint definitely seems to be the lack of combat complexity that we all saw coming.

    Shacknews doesn't really seem to like it.


    It's ultimately one of those great graphics launch games. I wouldnt expect it to have a particularly deep combat system.

    I hope nobody reads this in the wrong way, because as an Italian I was really hoping to see an interesting game coming out of the long development cycle. But reviews are bashing it, this is the roundup i found on a console war topic:

    Shacknews - 5/10

    Eurogamer - 5/10

    Polygon - 6/10

    Joystiq - 2.5/5

    Gamespot - 4/10

    IGN - 6.8

    Destructoid - 5/10

    Videogamer.com - 6/10

    EGNNow.com - 7.5/10

    OXM.co.uk - 7/10

    Kotaku - YES

    Gamesradar - 3.5/5

    GameInformer - 6/10

    Rev3Games/Sessler - 2/5

    MMGN - 6.5

    Eurogamer.de: 7/10

    Gameswelt - 7.5/10

    Gamersglobal.de - 6.5/10

    Is it really that bad?


    Not that I care that much about reviews, I'd rather have my decisions guided by my peers' recommendations... but those scores seem so low! I really want to play it.

    GRAPHIIIIICS


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    Also, as an artist myself, playing Ryse has been extremely interesting and eye opening in the sense that it is the first truly PBR game that I've played and it does make a difference, it's already 100% there, and that's part of the beauty of it. It allowed me to take a peak at the future when all games will take advantage of this tech and we're working with it now across most projects.


    (sorry helder ;P)

    Physically based Rendering. Its a concept that is currently being more and more adapted in the games industry and guarantees a certain consistency of look and flexibility in lighting to rendering. Super simplified its the idea that Gloss and Normals are Micro and Macro details of a surface, and the specularity and glossiness are two sides to the same factor - if you have a sharper reflection its a stronger highlight and if you have a more spread out reflection the same amount of light gets distributed across the bigger surface.

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    Also, as an artist myself, playing Ryse has been extremely interesting and eye opening in the sense that it is the first truly PBR game that I've played and it does make a difference, it's already 100% there, and that's part of the beauty of it. It allowed me to take a peak at the future when all games will take advantage of this tech and we're working with it now across most projects.


    (sorry helder ;P)


    ahah, deja vu! I'm really looking forward to try Ryse man! And Forza 5 is actually getting fantastic reviews.

    This new xbox isn't very appeal to me, but the games sure are.

    Quote from e-freak

    Physically based Rendering. Its a concept that is currently being more and more adapted in the games industry

    I'm now curious to throw this in some console war thread and see how the buzzword crowd will latch on it

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