WarCraft III-quality graphics on iPad?

[Bribe]

Anyone know what kind of gaming quality is potentially there for the iPad 2
at the moment? If it can handle RTS with the same or higher graphics quality
than WarCraft III, then it's worth getting one. Otherwise, the iPad's dead to
me. Anyone know about this things potential for gamers?

 

[Dr Super Good]

I think you will have problems microing on it due to no keyboard and mouse at the same time. Could work for other games like 4X games.

 

[Bribe]

Eh, keyboard and mouse never were particularly interesting for me. I only
started using my keyboard because the mouse scrolling between the unit-
control panel and the units themselves took too long. With an iPad you could
be constantly ready for such control by having one hand controlling the units
and the other pressing the buttons.

You could take advantage of every feature using the gestures anyway, like
scrolling the screen could use a two-finger swipe, and you could recall your
control groups in some other creative way. The options with an ipad are not
nearly as limited as the keyboard/mouse combo.

I think that would be fun as hell.

 

[BlargHonk]

Eh, keyboard and mouse never were particularly interesting for me. I only
started using my keyboard because the mouse scrolling between the unit-
control panel and the units themselves took too long. With an iPad you could
be constantly ready for such control by having one hand controlling the units
and the other pressing the buttons.

You could take advantage of every feature using the gestures anyway, like
scrolling the screen could use a two-finger swipe, and you could recall your
control groups in some other creative way. The options with an ipad are not
nearly as limited as the keyboard/mouse combo.

I think that would be fun as hell.

They recently ported Unreal Engine 3 to the iPad, so running an old ass DX8 game would be fine. As for controls, that scheme could work.

Hell, I remember Starcraft on the N64, everyone thought it couldn't be done. But they did

 

[Dr Super Good]

Hell, I remember Starcraft on the N64, everyone thought it couldn't be done. But they did

But they did not... really... It was apparently a slow piece of unplayable. Yes you can get something to work but does it work well? To me a game that is near unplayable due to controls and performance is not really a sucess.

 

[BlargHonk]

Wasn't slow for me.

Controls were a bit wiggy, but worked.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Yeh but could you honestly play as well as with a keyboard to use hotkeys and a mouse to select stuff? Also the performance was likly only a problem with huge settings (all players).