Not exact matches
The Brit is distinctive on the inside, too, with a gear - selection knob that
rises dramatically
out of the center
console at engine start, racy perforated (and contrasting) leather seats, and mood lighting to swank - up your nighttime drives.
The shifter, I was happy to see, is the simple twist - knob that
rises out of the center
console — not the fiddly lever I encountered in the F - Type.
The original XF had a rotary gear selector that
rose out of the centre
console when you pressed the pulsing starter button, while the air vents rotated open at the same time.
When you push the start button, a rotary gear - selector dial
rises slowly
out of the centre
console, which gives a real sense
of drama.
Then there's the gear dial that
rises out of the centre
console.
The driver interacts with the off - roading tech through the Terrain Response system, a knob that
rises out of the center
console.
It
rises out of the center
console when the ignition is activated and retracts when turned off.
Speaking
of power trains, the XF is only available with an eight - speed automatic transmission that, as I mentioned earlier, uses a novel rotary transmission selector that
rises out of the center
console like a giant chrome volume knob when the car is started.
You can leave it in Automatic, or, by depressing the knob — so that it
rises out of the centre
console to be turned for different settings — you can select a general / normal setting by default, a Dynamic setting one notch anti-clockwise, or a host
of off - road settings clockwise.
On automatic versions, at a press
of the start button — which pulses to represent a beating heart — the rotary gear selector
rises out of the centre
console.
Following Sony's recent PS4 Pro announcement, a lot
of developers have pledged their support for Sony's enhanced PS4
console, either through a title update or by making use
of the PS4 Pro's extra horsepower right
out of the box — titles like Titanfall 2,
Rise of the Tomb Raider, Call
of Duty: Black Ops 3, The Last
of Us Remasterd, Uncharted 4, but also the upcoming Horizon Zero Dawn from Dutch developer Guerilla Games, will all take advantage
of the PS4 Pro.
On one side we saw a torrent
of new, emerging independent talent
rising up and getting their content
out on
consoles and Steam, while critics grew more accepting
of the «curio» title.
I mean, if that isn't enough to wet your appetite for the new
console versions
of the game, The Witcher:
Rise of the White Wolf, than maybe we should reiterate that it really is one
of the best RPGs to come
out in years.
The increasing complexity
of games and the
rising development costs were offset by the advantage
of not having to run a game past a platform holder like Sony, Sega or Nintendo and pay them a license fee for putting a game
out on their
consoles.
With so much time having passed in between those two launches and
Rise of the Tomb Raider's impending launch on PS4, it does make you wonder how the game will look and play on PS4 Neo, assuming it comes to the platform, should all
of the rumors surrounding the new
console's release date turn
out to be true.
Lara's next
outing,
Rise of the Tomb Raider, is a timed Xbox One exclusive and was set to go head to head with Uncharted around Christmas (naturally, you'd buy both if you have both
consoles), now Square's title will have no direct competition.
With Eddy absent in the game before the
console version came
out, he pursued a mastery
of the supposedly «bottom - tier» character Lucky Chloe on whom he
rose up the ranks
of the Korean arcade scene.
The fear, I guess, that smartphone gaming would take a substantial chunk
out of the
console market hasn't been wholly realized — although while PS4 and Switch sales are strong, you could look to the limited success
of the Vita as showing how portable play time has been substantially altered by the
rise of the App Store and its equivalents.
I must also point
out another thing that is hurting not only Nintendo, but also other
console video game manufacturers and even PC and Mac game makers and that is that video games that are totally dedicated to them are actually on a downward trend and the only things that are saving them are emulated titles from yesteryear, emulated import titles from yesteryear, independent developers making low cost games that are essentially DLC to your
console or computer, and the massive
rise of casual games and pay - to - play games.
The
Rise of the Dark Spark that came
out on
consoles was an action - adventure video game that featured all the standard tropes
of the genre and little else, so it would be safe to assume that something with such little ambition would get similar treatment on the 3DS.
In addition to
Rise of the Tomb Raider that's due
out in late 2015, publisher Square Enix has announced Lara Croft and the Temple
of Osiris, which will be coming to the Xbox One, PC and PlayStation 4
consoles.
Be sure to check
out our in - depth review
of Rise of the Tomb Raider while you wait for your copy to be ready on your
console.