Christmas is already very close and everyone is probably thinking about the gifts, so I decided to also make some of you buy giving out 2 full copies of the game Batman: Arkham Asylum for Christmas (digital download to be easily sent). As you probably know this is one truly great game that supports both PhysX and 3D Vision, so that you can enjoy it as if you were really in the Arkham Asylum when you play it in Stereoscopic 3D mode…
The only thing you need to do, in order to be able to win a copy of the game, is to post a link to this page so that other people will learn about this contest and might also participate and win. You can post a link on your Twitter, Facebook profile, MySpace page, a forum you write in, your blog or homepage etc. (no spamming is allowed!) and then post a link to the page you’ve written about the contest in the comments below, along with your name and email (emails are not publicly shown), so that I can contact you if you win.
The contest is not limited to certain countries, so you can participate no matter where in the world you live. You can immediately start your participation – only one link per user, so that everyone can have the same chance to win. The contest ends at 11:59 GMT (am, not pm) on 24th of December when the two winners will be announced here and their prizes will be sent immediately after that. The two winners will be chosen on a random principle so that everyone will have the same chance and the two persons with the best luck will be the winners… ;)
This new game called Scorpion: Disfigured caught my attention and I decided to try it out by playing in stereoscopic 3D with the help of 3D Vision, but I was very quickly disappointed from the results I got. But in order not to get the wrong impression about the game I need to point out that I’m not impressed with it’s performance when playing in stereoscopic 3D mode only, the game is fine and with no issues when it is being played normally. So I’ll be focusing on the S3D mode and what to expect from this title and not on the game itself being good or bad… ;)
With default settings the game, no profile for it, the game looks quite nice at first look in stereoscopic 3D and it seems it also takes advantage of PhysX. The convergence is almost good and the depth level is not needed that much, as most of the objects in far distance get too blurred. But taking a closer look you’ll see that the convergence can benefit a bit with manual adjusting in order to better see the gun you are holding, so you can play a bit with that. But if you try to increase the depth level a bit (it is Ok only at low level), you’ll start noticing a bit of ghosting around some objects and here disabling the Depth of Field option (setting it to Off from the settings) can help a bit in decreasing ghosting…
But then again, when you start playing a bit you’ll also notice some other “bugs” that are only available when you are playing the game in stereoscopic 3D mode. I’m talking about things like completely different shadows rendered for the left and right eye and thus creating a strange feeling when playing the game. Also there are some weird diamond shaped figures appearing from your gun after you shoot or from objects that have smoke coming out of them etc. All these are making kind of weird and unpleasant experience playing the game in stereoscopic 3D mode, but it is Ok if you play it normally. So anyway, my suggestion is to just stay away from this game if you plan to try it in S3D, but if you just want to play it normally it should still be fun for you if you like this type of games. The atmosphere in the game is quite nice too, so it could’ve benefited a lot from S3D if there were no graphical glitches present, but maybe they’ll be fixed at a later time with a patch…
Lately there is a lot of talk about the game Darkest of Days, because the game is officially available for a few days, looks very good and is even fun to play. And thus a few questions arise, because this is one of the still rare games that come with Nvidia PhysX support and this makes the game look much more realistic for all Nvidia-based video card owners (if they VGA can handle PhysX of course). The next big question is if the game works in Stereoscopic 3D mod with Geforce 3D Vision, but here unfortunately comes a little disappointment – the game uses OpenGL and thus is not compatible with 3D Vision. So we should do with PhysX only for this title and here is a little something that will show you what you can expect if your video card is PhysX capable and if it is not…
