Topic: Factor 5 Drops Nintendo!

[SearanoX]

There isn't a huge difference in the lighting effects.  Really, they're not big at all.

And the graphics in Rebel Strike are better (although I still think the water is atrocious), but the framerate is much more unstable.  The ground missions are awful and the space ones are more unstable than the ones in Rogue Leader.  There are noticable improvements, of course.  However, does that mean that one should sacrifice framerate for them?  I would much rather have a few less lighting effects and polygons (the higher poly counts aren't even that noticable thanks to the TV's resolution) and a stable framerate rather than some relatively small improvements and an unstable framerate.

And graphics, of course, don't save Rebel Strike from being inferior to Rogue Leader in just about every way when it comes to gameplay.

[jasonditz]

The much vaunted water still looks like it belongs in a bad N64 fishing Sim.

Honestly, other than more stuff on the screen (and the slowdown that creates) I have a hard time believing there is a significant upgrade (and I just got done playing the first level of each to be fair, I hadn't played RL in over a year).

Maybe if you've got a 50" High-Def TV and some fancy cables there's a whole new world to see. Frankly, sitting here with a 19" Magnavox TV with the standard AV hookup that came with the Cube I'm going to have to take your word for it that the graphics are "improved".

RL blew me away with its graphics (the second game I bought for the Cube, after SMB). When I started playing RS the first thing I thought was "wait a minute, I already have this game, don't I?"

[Rich]

Listen I'm not saying that the difference is huge but it defintely noticeable. I have the same cords as you do plugged into a 36in TV  and i can definetly tell the difference between RL and RS. I don't remember how the water looks and I'd have to dig up my copy of the game which i don't feel like do so I'll take your word for the water.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I like RS's water better.  It's justifiably opaque, as the water you find off various non-Hawaii coasts are, has that wonderful glittery sunlight reflection effect, and doesn't have that simple-lifeless-passing-textures-over-a-flat-3D-plane look you get from PS2 and N64 games.

[OG_OriginalGamer]

Stop talking about RS, your making me want to play it again just look at the graphics.

[HereticPB]

Hahahaha such over reactive children!