Mirror's Edge - The First Encounter.
Having no console whatsoever, I was left at ... ahem, ~dear~ EA's mercy with this title - which I haven't especially been anticipating, but given the hype, I thought "ok, let's give it a shot". With all the negative comments I've heard about its length (or the lack thereof, its shortness), its relative easiness, my expectations weren't high at all... and yet, EA managed to underperform.
The first frown came when the installer fired up: granted, I'm a Hungarian in Hungary, but ffs, why am I not allowed to at least CHOOSE which language I wanna use in an installer, not to mention the game itself??? Why do developers have to FORCE things on the user? I'm not saying most ppl wouldn't prefer their own language if possible, but still a click or two wouldn't be that complex of a solution, and everyone would feel satisfied. Maybe it's just me, but Hungarian translations are generally not that great, so I always avoid them, whatever the medium is: games, movies, books... ok, in some cases they're quite good, but still when you know it's not the original, the whole feeling is just different. So yeah. Minus one point to EA again.
Following some investigation and registry-editing (I pity those poor noobs who're barely able to use a computer and would want a different language than what the game decides), the second strike came when I wanted to start the game. No config utilities, it even failed to create shortcuts in start menu of Win7 (probable flaw on Vista too, methinks) and it'd switch to a resolution my display simply doesn't support...sooo, all goes black and the only solution that remains is to press that funky reset button on the case. I'd be glad for a fix here, cuz I couldn't yet figure out which config file to edit. T_T
So, congrats EA, months of delay (under the mission of "adding physx content"), and you manage to push out a piece of crap again - and couldn't even yet get to the game...no comment.
Edit: apparently, the installer hasn't heard of version checks either, cuz even tho I have the latest v9 PhysX installed, it wants to install v8.10 anyway - same goes for DirectX, I wonder what's there to install if the system has v10 by default, and I've also installed the latest 9.0c pack as well...? Oh, and just to top it off: the option to choose the location of the start menu shortcuts is a joke too. You can't place it anywhere outside the Programs folder of the "All user account".
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!!! -_-;;;
