El Matador Demos

impressions:

quick save/load is broken apparently so you have to reload the level each time. I turned the difficulty to easy to counter this, since the load times are pretty long and I didn't want to die a lot.

el matador seems to play just like max payne in concept, as a third person shooter where you can slow down time. there's gratutious blood, and environmental damage in places (support columns in a garage of the second demo I played seem to lose big chunks of themselves but I don't know if it's scripted.) a squad also seems to join you at times but I got mine killed screwing around so I don't how much they do. I do know when they landed they blew a door open and ran off without me to kill guys which I thought was cool. as I said this is very much like max payne, same weapon types and selection, same slow mo moves, same health kits all over the place idea (except they are auto use I think) The graphics run a bit flakey for me, but my system isn't that great anymore, and the game is running all sorts of shadowing and lighting effects. overall, this is not OMG SO FUN I CUM MY PANTS, but it's not the worst it could be for an action game. I don't expect it to outdo max payne in terms of quality by any means though.

DUMBEST NAME FOR A GAME EVER.

It's true. Mexicans are making US CHANGE OUR LANGUAGE to fit their immigration.

When my grandparents came to America from Portugal, they LEARNED ENGLISH.

It seems like we must learn Spanish for them. I REFUSE TO.

No Widescreen???

Just for those who didnt know. contrary to the readme, this game does not support windows2000.

I keep getting these two confused with each other

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/justcause/news.html?sid=6155780

This (El Matador) wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Just Cause though....oof.....just watch the gameplay movies is all I gotta say.

Can you imagine if they didnt' have that bug fixed? So there's a seperate installer and a seperate start menu shortcut for each map?

crates and poor lighting oh boy!

Demo 1 didn't work. Gave me an "assertion failed kernel etc." crap.

GG. I was interested, though...

Can someone plz post impressions?

SWEET they made a game out of this movie!!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0365485/

I'm sooo downloading 2gigs of fun!!!

can we expect the final game to be 20 missions and 20 gigs? XD

Why must I download the engine and resources twice? Hmm, I believe I won't.

I already played Counterstrike. It was fun.

this looks cool, and i like their logo design, will have to try it later.

game looks quite a bit like Far Cry. not the same engine, is it? i'll have to give it a try when i get home tonight.

I really hope these demos are cool. And a 1 gig download no longer phases me. Though I question why the developers couldn't release on installer that includes two maps. Hopefully they'll have that bug ironed out before the game ships. But anyway here is my question...

Has the minimum mindshare a game needs to appear as a top news item been reduced? It seems that lately some demos have received higher billing than they would have in the past.