![]() ![]() The level of detail in the environments has been hugely improved with a level of crisp texturing sorely lacking previously. Finally Pivotal has had the opportunity to apply its design nous to decent technology.Īccording to the SCi-Eidos rep the game's engine has been "100 per cent rebuilt" and it shows. ![]() It just was a brand that was getting tired with great unrealised potential. That makes it sound like a bad game, but it really wasn't. Finally the team has gone back to the drawing board, listened to the criticisms leveled at it and addressed practically everything we thought was lacking in the previous three games.īack then, although the game was always a solid performer with an excellent control system that brought the delights of tactical squad-based shooting to the console, it was always hampered by a poor graphics engine, questionable inventory issues, the horrors of respawning goons of death and assorted AI issues. Back to basicsīut getting away from the horrors of politically correct shenanigans, the fourth in the Conflict series finally promises to deliver on the huge potential this chart-topping franchise has shown ever since it first appeared three years back. It will plead - with justification - that it's just a game that deals with the general subject matter, but we suspect the hacks won't let that get in the way of another chance to slamdunk this perennially attacked entertainment medium. Obviously, Pivotal couldn't have guessed for a second that the most grotesque terrorist atrocity in British history was about to kick off right in the middle of its latest game's key promotional period, but the games industry's hardly renowned for treading softly on the eggshells of human tragedy. Roger Bennett, we've got The Daily Mail on line one. ![]() Not content with somehow managing to release Conflict Desert Storm just before the second tussle with Saddam got underway (and getting the stunningly-subtitled 'Back To Baghdad' sequel out in time for the real thing), it's now inadvertently lining up its take on The War On Global Terror with breathtaking inappropriateness. There's bad timing and then there's Pivotal timing. ![]()
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