ive just been looking on amazon at the upcoming game, and noticed on the enlarged game picture NTSC in the top right corner of the box, all my other games are PAL since i live in the uk. so the question is, if i get a copy sent over will it play??
That's a great question that can really only be 100% answered by Sierra or Ubisoft.
My bet is, sadly, no you won't be able to play it. I don't think this game will release outside of North America and all entertainment is regionally coded. Unless you have a mod chip (in which case you'll get banned from XBL) you will only be able to play games formatted for Europe.
thanks for your answer, its what i would have guessed. very disapointing, have been waiting for a fact based shooter, cod4 not lol, cant understand why it should be state side only. iknow originally it was a recruitment tool and to some degree still is, but i cant see how letting everyone play the game could do anything other than make them more money and enlighten more people. i ll have to introduce the british army to ubisoft and see what happens lol
Buy an Xbox 360 from the U.S. and have it shipped over to wherever you are at. Then when AA2 comes out get that as well. Also don't forget to specify that you are from the U.S. on the Xbox.
nice thought cire, but look at it from my point of veiw, would you pay the best part off $500 to fill the pockets of companies who should have released the game world wide anyway??
Well don't look at it that way. What your basically saying is you don't want to shell out the money to MS for a US version of an xbox360 (which some if not all new consolses now have the 65nm chip called the Falcon) and to ubi for the game because it should have been available everywhere in the first place. I understand your point. But right now it doesn't look like they are going to do it that way. So tough it out.
Also this could be the case where these [UBI] guys don't have a clue how well the game is going to do in the first place. In other words they don't know if they are going to break even. That's why no marketing and no units for Europe unfortunately. It probably costs more money to convert from NTSC to PAL version (Europe version).
It just depends on how bad you want this game really. If I had an extra 360 to send you man I would.
It has been a while since I lived in Europe, so correct me if I am wrong, but unless you have a multi-mode TV/Monitor to hook the US Xbox360 to, it wouldn't do you much good buying one.
ive been reading up a bit on the difference between ntsc and pal, the main one being pal runs at 50 ghz and ntsc runs at 60 ghz. the xbox 360 gives you the option to change between the two, so i wonder if it will in fact play. unless of course the is another criteria (good word) required.
I have been doing a little research into whether or not this will play on a UK 360, dont quote me as I could be very confussed but...
The difference between PAL & NTSC is as someone else mentioned one is 50Hz and the other 60Hz, which of course you can change on the console itself.
Also with HD TV's in the UK several are capable of playing a NTSC signal (Checked my LG and it states NTSC playback)
Someone else also told me that if using HD it doesnt matter if your PAL or NTSC as it is a seperate format compatable anywhere but its actually if the disc is region locked but I am not 100% sold on this info.
Someone on my friends list ordered Crackdown from Play Asia and when it arrived it was a NTSC version but he says it plays fine, so the main factor actually seems to be whether or not Ubi region lock the game, looking at it Ubi very rarely seem to actually region lock their games so hopefully this shouldnt be an issue.
I am going to be a little cautious and wait unti lit's available from Play Asia as they tend to put what formats it's compatable with.
Hope it does work though as AA seems like a game that is right up my street and could take my attention from GRAW..
OK...there is WAY more difference between PAL and NTSC than refresh rates. The information is sent in completely different ways. The biggest difference being color information. Where PAL's color info is spread across the signal, NTSC's is on "the back porch," an afterthought really. If you were to play an NTSC game on a PAL console, it would look like a scrambled cable channel. There's a lot to this subject that I can't even begin to understand, and I have a degree in broadcasting. I'm not trying to be braggadocios, just trying to save some peeps some loot!!!
As long as you are playing on a console that isn't connected to a display using composite (i.e., you are using component, HDMI or VGA), PAL/NTSC isn't an issue, as they are only used in SDTV connections. The issue will be whether the game is ragion locked or not.
I believe GRAW2 had no region protection, and this is based on it, so, you may well be in luck...
i read in one of the articles on this game that US military based in europe will be taking part in this game, so i think a call to ubi might be in order to put this to bed once and for all.
All they [UBI] got to do is go to this thread and read it to interpret what some here want.
That brings out an opportunity for some proactive pseudo grassroot marketing here. Hold a LAN event somewhere out there [PAL regions] (preferably near within flights distance to a US Military base), but no you can't buy only play. That would be like a tease to me but fun nonetheless. Especially fun for those people who are into these games interact with our audience. Because from the voices about this game there are many gripes or what not.
For the event, send me as a fraction of a team there to organize, any challenges for sure. I just hope for hypothetical reasons we have enough security so when **** hits the fans because of simple mis-interpretation of gamers' message we don't get the event bombed.
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