Series look through Netflix videos on YouTube or listen to music via Spotify

After the Android TV box almost had conquered the world, was on March 17, Europe's turn. The Nvidia Shield, which for € 200, - in stores, your media box must for any living room. Or the Nvidia Shield really is such a beast, look at this Nvidia Shield review.

Nvidia invited us to a presentation just before the release of their Nvidia Shield. Were announced a lot of things promised and shown you went all the way into the product believing. We took along a copy to see if the device such expectations which makes the standard living room.

The Nvidia Shield is at first glance an amazing device
Black Android TV box has a lot of features and specifications which you "you" to say. Thus supports the smart TV 4K television (if you have at home) at 60 FPS, it has many great apps that are already in buying the media, voice search, USB connections for external hardware, streaming from your PC and much more. It is a small media box with the capability of a true PC game.

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Apps on the Nvidia Shield
Many great apps are already at acquisition. Series look through Netflix videos on YouTube or listen to music via Spotify, it's all possible with the Shield. Of course runs the Media Box to these apps and it is natural that they insist. The library also has a very wide range with many more apps.

Unfortunately for us, there are little Dutch apps. Programs look back at NPO or RTLxl is not yet in. Fortunately, the Nvidia Shield does offer the ability to stream anything from your PC to the black box. So it is still possible to look back these Dutch programs on your TV.

Nvidia Shield is rapidly
Thanks to a special Tegra X1 processor with 64-bit processor, the cabinet is many times faster than the media boxes in a while on the market. Thus, the Shield two and a half times faster than the latest version of Apple and even 35 times faster than the first version.

The Media Box is lightning fast, you notice everything. All apps, YouTube videos and games are loaded within seconds. Provided you have a good Internet connection. Although the makers say the device works over wi-fi perfectly, this was not noticeable. The Internet was frequently away, while a wired connection worked perfectly.

Nvidia Shield review Geforce Now Games

GeForce Now Gaming
GeForce Now is the showpiece of Android when it comes to the Nvidia Shield. Indeed, it is your Android gaming service on the Nvidia Shield which has more than 90 games in the library. Games will be streamed live from a cloud, causing physical CDs are unnecessary and hours of game update or download past his time.

Games like Tomb Raider and The Witcher 3 jump straight in the eye as you go through the library. But beyond these two games and a few others, the library exists - which contains more than 90 games - mostly from old titles. What Nvidia Shield is immediately less interesting compared to consoles. Because games are streamed from the cloud is not (yet) possible to play online multiplayer games, which is also a comedown from the Nvidia Shield.

What is indeed impressive, with respect to GeForce Now, is that full games are actually playable on your TV within 30 seconds. You can play single player games like this, but if you have multiple controllers Shield with your friends in split-screen.

During the presentation were announced a partnership with Square Enix. In addition, new titles promised on day of release were also will appear on the Nvidia Shield, so that is somewhat encouraging.

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Nvidia accessories
By buying the Nvidia Shield Shield you get a standard controller, which is a hybrid version of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. With this controller you can control the menu and play the games on the Shield. The controller is a plug-in for your headphones, which changes the sound directly from TV to your headphones. This applies to all of the accessories Shield.

The controller feels very big and very heavy. It has not definitely feel that an Xbox One or PlayStation 4 controller gives you. thereby gaming feel the Shield is not ideal, especially if you use the media box to quiet some zapping to Netflix, the controller is not pleasant.

Nvidia Shield review - Can a lot, but still not come out
With all the features and specifications of the Nvidia Shield has the potential to be a beast. Were it not for the media box has some minor problems with the wifi connection and sometimes crashes. Although it is a great thing is that you can stream games from the cloud within 30 seconds, GeForce Now, is the centerpiece of Nvidia, also very disappointing.

Since Nvidia everything live patchet from the servers in Ireland and Germany, many small problem quickly resolved with the Media Box. You're always up to date, so you always have the latest and greatest version at home. If they live up to the promise to release games on day of release, also on the Shield, the Nvidia Shield become the media box of every living room!

When the original release in 2012, we've all secretly chuckled as for Resident Evil 6. The logo mark 6 in the corresponding logo, which still looked like a giraffe who received a blowjob. All jokes over, there was a very strong game, which was well received. Throws the game four years later still highly in the re-release?

Resident Evil 6 now doing so the current-gen consoles, because before the game was only on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 available. In the summer and autumn of 2016 will be respectively two predecessors, Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 4 coming to the next generation consoles and the second installment of the franchise that is still developing.

The game that you now for your Xbox One or PlayStation 4 gets contains any newly added content and DLC from the time you start it. This means that in the very beginning can immediately choose from four different single player campaigns has to offer the game.

Resident Evil 6

Singleplayer superiority in Resident Evil 6
You can choose a story to go through with Chris Redfield, Leon Kennedy, Ada Wong and Jake Muller. The overarching story is infecting a massive wave of bio-terrorist attacks, those people and they do not turn into all sorts of creatures. That story is still excellent. As with most Resident Evil games is the replay value high. Four completely different-playing campaigns provide a wide variety of gameplay, as you never get the feeling that you are no longer in the Resident Evil universe.

The style of each single player campaign is drastically different. Where you often in the story of Chris uses the all-out warfare approach, you will be at Leon employ a slightly narrower style of martial art. It is not that the separate storylines each separate game should be seen before that there are too many overarching elements.

In each of the four campaigns are unfortunately mostly annoying quick-time events and clunky camera movements still shaving and weft in Resident Evil 6, as in the last-gen version was.

Resident Evil 6

Smooth co-op
Every story you can choose from two main characters. You can play any campaign from beginning to end with someone at your side, which you are to stand any in the shoes of one of the two characters in an online co-op or local splitscreen mode. The drop in / drop-out used by the game works very smoothly, and with the improved network code of the new consoles, you will have much less affected by network problems than the versions on the previous generation systems. So, you can live with a friend (in) Resident Evil 6 in a whole new way.

Remaster ≠ facelift
The key to the re-release of Resident Evil 6 is of course the difference with the previous generation. The game has certainly not been remaster. Rather something that would be better classified as a facelift. Anyway, some of the flaws that had the previous version, are eliminated. During the original release was duly complained that the frame rate of Resident Evil 6 was very unstable and too low for an action game.

The new version is the framerate screwed to a stable 60 frames per second. From 30 to 60 frames per second does not sound like a whole impact, but once in the game makes this a world of difference. The resolution has also been upgraded. The game now runs at a native resolution of 1080p. There will now use the same rendering technique to turn the game on your image as a PC that sets into play all the trimmings starter and the highest graphics options. This allows resemble the current-gen versions of Resident Evil 6 almost identical to the PC version.


Resident Evil 6

Four balanced storylines
All in all, it is the re-release of Resident Evil 6 little news conjured on screen compared to the original. What you get are four stage (!) Well-balanced story lines with occasional forced and unnecessary quick-time events, crazy camera angles and clunky controls. Do make the graphical improvements, good co-op implementation and reduced price (you pay only 20 euros for Resident Evil 6 in the online stores), especially for the newcomers this a must, and a chance to Resident Evil 6 to experience again for lover .