Edge: Ninja Gaiden II walks all over DMC 4 and God of War

[jasonnc80]

CrazzyMan said:

Edge also encourages hardcore gamers to fully support Microsoft, because without them, hardcore gaming could be a thing of the past."

Let`s THANK M$ for rushed games. =))
http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?s=641166026dcfe9851f89ef1c93525fb8&t=320075

Okay, so I've been really enjoying the game - it's a remarkable step up from the original Ninja Gaiden, but a lot of alarm bells have been going off in my head after noticing there's heaps of framerate drops in the game, and it's rather jarring. At first, I noticed the cutscenes were reduced in terms of framerate - which was no biggy. Secondly, when we first met Alexei - his lightning effects were really sub-par, like PSX style animation. It's not a big thing, but it kinda ruins the effect the game goes for.

I'm currently in Chapter 10 (the one where you fight Elizabeta at the end) and I noticed something horrendous. Not only did I spend most of the chapter in about 10fps, I got to this staircase, where about 50-100 people swarmed me.

The game slowed down to an absolute crawl. So I try using an Eclipse Ultimate Technique. Sure, it worked, but I don't think I've ever seen anything like this since I filled a room up with remote mines in Goldeneye and detonated it. The game slowed down, almost freezing! The sound reminded me of GE too.

There was one part in chapter 10 that it did that.  The stairway scene he talked about.  It was a ridiculous amount of enemies on screen at once and almost curious if it did that on purpose because it is rather blatent.

The rest of that chapter had no framerate problems.  There is an early GDC build of that level on gametrailers in HD if you want to look yourself.  But of course you haven't played the game yourself so no first hand experience (like normal).

I haven't noticed any real framerate dips either at least not to the point where it's distracting and isn't that what matters?  Several recent 10/10 games have had framerate dips too ya know. MGS4, GTA4 ring a bell?

But of course you come back to bash a game you have no play time with. Not surprising to say the least.