UBER_SOLDAT wrote:...Half life 2 and doom 3 which youll need a few ?1000 spare to buy the pc needed to run them with.
I'd agree with D3, but ID have never claimed that their game would be otherwise. In fact it's designed to be played on the next generation of Geforce cards.
Half-Life 2, however, is not. Minimum specs are planned to be approximately the reccomended specs of MoH:AA (900Ghz CPU, 32bit Graphics). That's not bad seeing as it will be 2 years or more since MoH came out by the time we'll hopefully be buying HL2.
Granted that will mean some people will have to upgrade but hardly at a cost of ?1000 or more.
It cost me about ?240 to upgrade from my old Duron 700Mgz, 384 PC133 Ram to my current Athlon XP 1.67Ghz, 512 DDR ram, which should be able to run HL2 no problems.
I'll probably need to upgrade to make it run smooth as I would like, but that was the same with MoH:AA.
Remember that MoH:AA was created with the same engine that CoD will approximately use and we all know how poorly (in comparison) MOH:AA runs.
Valve, on the other hand, should know how to optimise their engine (seeing as they created it entirely) far better than a third party developer will.
Don't expect CoD to run smoothly on a 1Ghz machine. It won't. Not unless they've implimented some new technology that we've not heard about into their modified engine.