Browsing the Steam Store to see what else they had available. Saw a new game that got released about 3 days ago, called ‘X-Plane 10 Global’. Going by the videos… my mouth was hanging open, and I had to put my eyeballs back into my head.
This game… oh god. This game…… I swore NASA made it. It uses real, and I mean real 3D ground and lighting from Google Earth, and kicks it up a notch. It has moving traffic. Interstates. Interchanges. Road Signs. Highways. EVERY FUCKING ROAD IN THE US… is in this game, and modeled from its real life counterpart! And it’s not just the US, it covers the entire planet Earth.
They showed videos of the roads at night. And I swear it looked like I was watching it, as if it was a real life traffic camera. The lighting is dead-on accurate! It’s… unbelievable how much fucking effort they put into this game!
And they’ve been developing this game for longer than Rig’N’Roll and Duke Nukem Forever’s development, yet, instead of saying “yeah, graphics are going to suck, but this is how they were back then!”, they say “you know? People demand epic graphics, even from a 20 year developed game. Let’s not be lazy and do it!”
The specs? Heh. You need a NASA computer to run it without lag, hence why I said “NASA made it”.
Here’s what it says for the recommended CPU specs; “3 GHz, multi-core CPU (or, even better, multiple processors)“. Even… better? Multiple processors?! There’s no gaming motherboard on the market that can handle two CPUs! The only motherboards that can, are designed as dedicated servers, not for gaming.
I have heard of 8-core CPUs. But I think at this time of technology, are going to be quite expensive.
What shocks me, you only need 4GB of RAM. I would think you would need 32GB to handle this goliath of a game.
But, if you have the specs to run it (I want your computer!), it’s $60 right now.