maryann porter | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:01:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png maryann porter | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Exclusive Battlefield 3 interview with Kevin from EA https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/jules/exclusive-battlefield-3-interview-with-kevin-from-ea/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/jules/exclusive-battlefield-3-interview-with-kevin-from-ea/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:03:25 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=59190 With Call of Duty, you are constantly aware that the action is staggered between each scene. That said, sales of more than $1 Billion for the last version of Modern Warfare are nothing to be sniffed at. One question has been hanging in the air for more than a year. “Can EA overturn Activision's grip …

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With Call of Duty, you are constantly aware that the action is staggered between each scene. That said, sales of more than $1 Billion for the last version of Modern Warfare are nothing to be sniffed at. One question has been hanging in the air for more than a year. “Can EA overturn Activision's grip on the wartime FPS genre with the launch of Battlefield 3?”….. PCTV sent Cold War veteran Max Smolaks into the thick of the action at i43. This is his last report.

Gamers across the globe have been pre-ordering Battlefield 3 faster than a Mig 25 streaks toward a mid-air interception. At the time of writing, EA is planning to lift its skirts and reveal the final code to the public on 25th October. How much money will flow into the coffers is a matter of keen debate. But how good is the game itself?

PCTV's Maryann gets hands on with Battlefield 3 while Mig jets fly past her nose at 1,000 mph

The Frostbite 2 engine is, without any argument, amazing.

Player movement within the game is so realistic, that you can easily imagine thousands of man-hours being spent by retired soldiers with ping pong balls glued to strategic points on their black-lycra-covered-bodies.

Interface reaction times are instantaneous and the re-spawn time (in the games we played) can be measured in seconds.

How realistic is the environment itself? Scarily good. As luck would have it, the troops in the games we played were tearing through the streets of Paris – only 30 minutes after we'd been watching this video (parental caution advised).

EA marketing guru Kevin, positioned security guards around every part of the Battlefield 3 staging area, prior to delivering the special discs from which the game would be installed. Once up and running, he gave the secured area one last scan before joining the PCTV crew for an exclusive Q&A session.

KitGuru says: This FPS  looks stunning, is obviously fully functional and so far ahead of the original Battlefield game that it takes your breath away.  The queues for this game at GamesCom and Multiplay i43 were huge and enthusiastic. The game is unlikely to disappoint the army of fans who have pre-ordered. Gamers interviewed leaving the hands-on area could be heard uttering praise like “Dead crisp” and “Beautiful”. Roll on 25th October.

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CCL proves you CAN build a PC in 3 minutes https://www.kitguru.net/channel/event/jules/ccl-proves-you-can-build-a-pc-in-3-minutes/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/event/jules/ccl-proves-you-can-build-a-pc-in-3-minutes/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:25:15 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=59077 Can a person - even a highly gifted hardware enthusiast - really build a PC in 3 minutes?

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At the UK's biggest LAN gaming event ever, Multiplay i43 at Telford over the August Bank Holiday, there were TONS of exhibitors vying for the attention of the owners of the 5,000 pairs of feet that went through the halls over a 4 day period. Online store CCL had a smart idea on how to grab enthusiasts and create a crowd. The PCTV crew was on hand to shoot the winner build a PC in  almost exactly 3 minutes flat. Read on disbeliever!

Starting with a chassis that has the mainboard screwed down, CPU in and PSU ready to go, how long would it take you to assemble the rest of the system ?

Maryann with the lucky winner - who managed an offensive 3 minute build time. Sod.

Remember, you are competing against the clock – being watched/annoyed/cheered by a sizeable crowd and – when you have finished – the system must boot.

Yep, we'll say that again.

It's not enough to do all the cabling etc, it must also boot Windows, access the internet and load the CCL home page.

Roving reporter (and Thai Boxing enthusiast) Maryann, was on hand to speak with the two fastest challengers.Watch the video below and feel free to scrub through the actual building part (we asked the PCTV edit guys to leave it in – so KitGuru readers would have proof-positive that everything was 100% honest and above board).

KitGuru says: We'd die if the cabling inside one of our rigs looked like that, but MAXIMUM KUDOS to the speedy fingered contestants in this interesting CCL challenge!

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