Now this kind of crazy game is just what I love about the App Store. Superlab (Free) is a totally free game by Real Visual, and it’s absolutely dripping with Breaking Bad fan service. The premise is ridiculously simple: Set in episode 10 from season 3, you play as Heisenberg and have two minutes to swat as many flies as possible in your underground mega meth lab. The controls themselves aren’t that great on iOS, as it uses a somewhat clunky dual stick setup… But even just exploring the shockingly great rendition of the lab in the game and ignoring the fly killing objective is still worth the download.
If you’re lucky enough to have an Oculus Rift, guess what, the game is even available as a first person virtual reality experience. Oh, and if you have no idea what this is all about, you really just need to put your life on pause and watch Breaking Bad. I mean, really, it is the best TV show ever.
It has lower triangle output. Im not and expert so anyone with any idea what would it mean for gaming performance ?
Could mean that the a7 chip is not as powerfully on the iPad air as it's on the iPhone 5s cause of the higher resolution.... Even if has nothing to so with this, it still is a fact.
I was comparing it to iPad 4
It means that while games with squares are faster on Air, the triangle games are faster on iPad 4.
C'mon, it means that it's a software glitch on the testing!!!
You really need an expert to explain that?
I believe it's due to the cores being streamlined to shaders instead of generic ones.
Games are more about shaders and materials than triangle counts these days, so I'd say it won't have too much an impact visually to most games and likely why they tweaked the design, as it'll be a nice save on power.
Yes exactly. The benchmark is an artificial test of how many polygons the hardware can create at once, which isn't a very good test as it doesn't take lighting, texturing, shading, etc into account.
On paper, the Playstation 2 can actually generate more triangles than the PS3, but in the real world that rarely matters as the PS2 can't actually texture and shade anywhere near that many polygons.
Likewise, with the iPad 4, it might be able to fill the screen with more untextured triangles than the Air but in real game situations where there's texturing, lighting, shading, etc going on the Air will be much faster.
And the Androids can do *A LOT* of triangles!!
All I want for Christmas is an iPad Air, an iPad air....an iPad Air....
Hmmmm srry kiddo i gotcha a ipad 4...... ;(
*posts on Facebook about worst parents ever for likes and complains about how life sucks and all that jazz*
still not convincing me i must have this Nov 1 already owning a 4th Gen iPad. and i want to feel compulsive! ironically i got my 4th Gen with the idea of games in mind but then everything started moving to freemium/IAP model so no longer equate iPad with gaming as that industry is already being destroyed with the freemium model. i NEVER install freemium games. but was glad i got 4th gen as i use music apps alot and it def runs those better than the iPad 2 i had.
Luckily our music apps haven't went freemium.
If you look at the top music charts the average music creation app is $5-$10 with no IaPs and no ads.
We simply won't accept that BS.
Actually, there are a bunch of great free games out there.
But you'll never know, b/c you have a bias.
And guess what? It's not 'destroying' the industry, the industry is conforming to the market. Wow, yes, that's free market in operation.
Maybe you think $60 games on proprietary hardware by giant corporations is better than free games with IAP which can be made by smaller teams who can do more with less profits?
Your planned obsolescence may have already arrived!
If ya got an ipad4 I would probably give this new one a miss........may other iPad then now would be a good time to upgrade ... I got an iPad 2 and still very reluctant to let it go....Grown very attached to it (much to the missus annoyance lol teach her for buying it for me ;)) ) but I will defo be getting this new one
Roll on Xmas day
I'm super pumped for iPad minis in 128 GB. THIS IS GONNA BE GREEEAAAAT
Looking forward to the probable A7X in March much more.
Not going to happen. There is no longer a reason for Apple to keep the X-series of their A-chips for the additional GPU performance and wider bus.
Now if Apple released a larger iPad with a lot more pixels it could happen, but that isn't likely to happen in March.
My iPhone 5s got a score of 1412 and 2561.