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Thief’s AI was too tricky, had to be “dumbed down”

By Geoffrey Tim
February 20, 2014
in :  Gaming
15

The Thief reboot is finally coming, and will be released here in South Africa next week Friday. From everything we’ve seen , it look pretty damned good, even if it does seem to borrow heavily from Dishonored, which itself borrowed rather heavily from Thief. Still, unless you turn off the assistive features, the game looks a bit easy. It used …

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Splinter Cell: Blacklist is being dumbed down

By Geoffrey Tim
April 24, 2013
in :  Gaming
37

The new Splinter Cell is being given a more fluid, action focus, because the difficulty of stealth is holding the series back.

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Hitman: Absolution video interview – Why yes I do have super powers!

By Gavin Mannion
January 13, 2012
in :  Gaming
0

Has Hitman: Absolution been dumbed down for our Internet generation or is this just an evolution on a theme?

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Kinect can’t read sign language – did Microsoft dumb it down to far?

By Gavin Mannion
August 12, 2010
in :  Gaming
10

According to recent Internet rumours, sparked on by some Microsoft patents, the upcoming Kinect could possibly read sign language and herald in a new form of cross communication between deaf and hearing enabled people. You know something like writing but just with that added technical touch. Unfortunately this dream has now been squashed, for now, as the Kinect we are …

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