Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection in Test

The Assassin’s Creed: Ezio Collection offers three great games.


Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection Review: Collector's Remaster


Assassin's Creed is one of the most diverse series of the video game industry. While we were in Assassin's Creed - the first part - in the Holy Land at the time of the Third Crusade, we fought Assassin's Creed 3 at the time of the American Revolution and the Independence War. Between the first and third parts is the Ezio Trilogy, which catapults us into the Renaissance - to Florence, Rome, the whole of Northern Italy and the Ottoman Empire.


Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection in Test - Conclusion


So if you had no contact with Assassin's Creed, the Ezio Collection is the best. All story arcs are excellently explained here. What it has to do with Abstergo, Templars, Assassins and Eden-Shards, everything is explained. Sure, you really should start with the first part, but the Ezio trilogy is so wonderfully finished and conclusive that you can do without the first part. Regarding the story, the games were not included. So we come to the first point of criticism. After all, if you already own the games for the old consoles generation, you do not have to buy them again. It is simply not worth it.


The Ezio Collection contains all three individual game campaigns of the Games and the corresponding single player content packages - the DLC. In addition, the complete short films Assassin's Creed Lineage and Assassin's Creed Embers are at the start. The Games were released between 2009 and 2011 and have already been around for a few years. It is a pity that Ubisoft did little trouble with the new edition. While the Ezio adventures are now full-HD, with much higher-resolution textures, sharper shadows, brighter colors, and a stable image rate, the remastered versions for PS4 and Xbox One are even smaller than the original PC version. Too bad. Nathan Drake (Uncharted series), or even Batman: Return to Arkham, which comes with a new graphics engine, is a good way to show off really technically good remasters.

Nevertheless, the Ezio Collection is a successful collection of games with slight graphic enhancements. Because the games know above all through their gameplay. We learn how Ezio Auditore da Firenze is becoming one of the most feared and most respected Assassins in the time, we rush through the city, run through narrow streets, chase us with enemies, hide in human masses, solve puzzles, enjoy Partly excellent synchronized dialogues, give us the prima Storys and gladly again and again thief about the partly excellently staged bouts.


We also learn how styling and gameplay mechanics came into the series. These include, for example, the Schleicher to be hired, who are still in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. In Revelations, there was also a tower defense example.


Sure, not everything was and is perfect. The battles or the climbing sometimes seem unassuming, the AI ​​does not always react perfectly. The Games compensate the player with a grandiose staging, which is supported among other things by contemporaries like Leonardo da Vinci. Small note to the end: The multiplayer modes from Brotherhood and Revelations are not included in the collection. Here, Ubisoft has focused on the singleplayer variants.


The Ezio Collection is exactly what it describes: a collection of three excellent games. No, we are not dealing here with lovingly implemented remastered versions, but rather with slightly adapted versions for the current console generation. Therefore, buying is only worthwhile for those who have not yet touched Assassin's Creed.


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Android Tip: Use Google translators in other apps

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Often, you read a website in English or refer to a primary source whose language is not powerful, so you can either read or skip it. With Google translators, however, you took the opportunity to improve your foreign language skills. To do this, you just have to use the app properly.


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Google Translator is an ingenious app that allows you to translate not only texts you have entered yourself, but also images recognized with the camera or microphone-spoken texts. A feature that is often overlooked is the instant translation from almost every app. As long as you can select the text within the app (tap and hold the word for a second), the app translates the word without having to go to the translator every time.

After marking, the service for cutting, copying and pasting opens at the top. There is also the split menu. Tap and select Google Translator. The app will open and show you the translation.


ProSiebenSat1 Group will remain with DVB-T

It would have been a severe setback for viewers of digital aerial television, even if ProSiebenSat1 Media AG would have adopted the idea of ​​aerial television. The RTL group wants to set the transmission by the end of 2017. It raises a lack of planning certainty regarding the licensing of broadcasting frequencies, and the transfer is unprofitable. Media Broadcast GmbH has now been able to reach an agreement with its competitor ProSiebenSat1, which ensures a broadcast of these programs beyond 2017.


The broadcasting group proposes entirely different tones: Conrad Albert, Member of the Board of Directors, Distribution & Regulatory Affairs, reports: "We have decided to continue to make our programs accessible to the broadest possible audience." He did not give reasons for a completely different view of the competition. According to Media Broadcast, the agreement extends to 2018.


Sony Entertainment Network test

The Sony Entertainment Network menu item does not have as many applications as other manufacturers. Lovefilm and Video Unlimited are on board. Music Unlimited is available for the music genre: a good application with a lot of content.


Additional content with Google TV Box


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In the home menu, users can find apps like Skype or Twitter under widgets or applications. The Opera Store also includes over 50 applications that can be installed individually. In addition, the manufacturer puts on the in-house Google TV box, which should bring all other important applications with it.


You can install additional services like the ARD Media Library, MySpace or Napster in the Google Play Store. In addition, the Google browser Chrome is available thanks to the smart box on the TV. In addition, websites - including those based on Flash - as well as search queries can be obtained.


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The remote control of the TV box can be turned and is designed like a computer keyboard. It expands the Smart TV offer, but costs about 200 euros.


Otherwise, the portal is quick to navigate: Intelligent key combinations (yellow and green buttons on the remote control) allow menu jumps up and down without having to migrate individual apps.


Video & isf Seminar: Become an expert in image quality!

The Imaging Science Foundation and its founder, Joel Silver, have been improving the TV quality for more than 20 years. To this end, about 20 seminars take place every year, ranging from the history and the fundamentals of image processing to the application of brand-new calibration technology, comprehensive knowledge as well as many practical tips. We are now proud that the next seminar will take place in the test rooms of our editorial staff on 5-7 June in American and that our test-engineer Roland Seibt will take part in the lectures.

Interesting discussions about the new technology and its future development are pre-programmed. In addition to the content of isf Level I, II and II +, we will devote a lot of time to the new challenges of high dynamic range (HDR) and extended color space, which require new methods of image adjustment and installation. The seminar focuses on the calibration and signal management of current TV equipment (projectors) for advanced users in the trade, AV industry and the broadcast sector. In order for each participant to be intensively looked after at the practice part, the number of participants is limited to 20 persons. If there are less than ten participants due to the short lead time, we have to cancel the event.


To ensure a pleasant arrival and departure, the seminar starts Sunday 5.6. At 2 pm and ends Tuesday around 3 pm. Lunch, coffee and cold drinks are available as well as the complete equipment of our video lab, including TV and projector references. If you want, you can bring your own hardware, from the laptop for the test version of the professional software Calman, to colorimeters, generators, TV sets or beamers, which are live-matched in practice. Each participant receives detailed seminar papers as well as a questionnaire, which is the examination for ISF Level II. After the evaluation, the calibrator receives an original certificate, signed personally by Joel Silver from Florida.


If you want to intensify the business with image enhancement, for which we have already negotiated attractive exclusive discounts for professional equipment. Please contact us by 18.5.2016 at the latest for more details and to register!


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Test: Five 3D monitors from Samsung, Acer & Co. in comparison

3D monitors are on everyone’s lips and play in 3D is really fun. We have tested which technology and which monitor is best suited for it.


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We are accustomed to seeing three-dimensional, and for this reason computer games are not realistic. Game manufacturers work with perspectives to give us a spatial impression. Still, not even the best 3D models to offer more 3D, the graphics remain flat. Using 3D monitors, it is possible to move this flat world into the third dimension. Three-dimensionality on the TV, in games or in the cinema works in principle as well as the perception of an actual three-dimensional scene. Each eye sees an image only in 2D, and only these images transform our brain into a three-dimensional image.


For the two-dimensional monitors, it works similarly and two techniques have been established to distribute the two images to the eyes: the shutter technology and the polarization method.


In the shutter technology, the monitor alternately displays the images intended for the right and left eye. If one puts the corresponding glasses on, one gets a three-dimensional and sharp picture. In the meantime, the glasses darkens in each case a spectacle lens. This is so fast that the brain perceives the two different stereotypes as a spatial image.


The 3D monitors in the test, which use this method "shutter" at 120 Hz, thus 60 Hz per eye. Due to the rapid change of 60 images per second and eye, it is fast enough that we do not perceive the alternating blackout of the spectacle lenses as flicker.


Unfortunately, the glasses swallow very much light, after all, one eye is always darkened. Even the "open" glass does not let the light through one hundred percent and so the picture is dark and loses contrast. Another drawback with this method is that the graphics card must calculate twice each image.


For this reason, only owners of current midrange and high-end graphics cards can benefit from 3D games. Nvidia offers a pair of shutter glasses and a transmitter for his cards. The advantage: the Nvidia drivers already support a lot of 3D games.


The second technique, the polarization method, uses the combination of special monitors with polarized spectacles to produce stereoscopic images. In contrast to the eyewear, the polarizing glasses function passively, without power consumption and without an infrared transmitter.


However, this 3D technique has a serious disadvantage compared to Nvidia's shutter glasses: the viewing angle dependency. As soon as you move the head up or down during play, the image becomes blurred. In addition, the so-called "Aufpixeln" in games plays.


The reason for the retouching is the necessary interlacing - two images must be displayed at the same time - lower resolution: with a 1680x1050 monitor, the vertical resolution halves to 525 pixels.


Because both images are billed twice, whether they are full-images or line-wise interlaced half-images, the crosshair in shooters is sometimes doubly visible (as ghosting) or even shifted due to the simultaneous representation of two views and their horizontal deviation And the manufacturers of polarizing spectacles provide a software that is a so-called 3D crosshair, which can also be used in 3D games. However, this software is not allowed or supported by most games with anti-cheat mechanisms, such as punkbuster.


Examples are Unreal Tournament 3 or Call of Duty 4. If you're a committed first-person shooter fan, you should leave your fingers on 3D because the normal visors are practically unused.


The polarization process is much better from the 3D quality, but the lack of supported games and the angle of view dependency is a big drawback. In both techniques, the software still seems to be in the children's shoes.


Whether Nvidia, iz3D or TriDef - all still have bugs to fight. The Nvidia solution currently makes the most mature and stable impression. We tested the best 3D-enabled monitors in the lab.


With the Color Analyzer CA-110 and the measuring robot we record the luminance distribution at 230 Candela and create a 3D model from it. This enables us to gain insight into the uniformity of the image and to detect irregularities. We measure the viewing angles between 0 and 90 degrees and record the color components of pure white as well as the luminance at each step.


The CS-2000 spectroradiometer from Konica Minolta allows us to precisely determine the contrast values. As one of the most sensitive measuring instruments on the market, it is capable of detecting extremely low signal strengths as low as 0.003 cd / m².