So just the other day I noticed a game on Filefront (which is where you should always go FIRST for gaming downloads, no gamestop or fileshack crap). Warmonger is it's name.

From a video I watched, it looked OK, and since it's free, I might as well try it.

Turns out it's another Cell Factor. Upon loading, the game reminds you that it is best experienced with a Physx card. What it doesn't tell you, is that you can't actually play it without a Phsyx card.

I even lowered my Res to 640x480, and all settings to the lowest possible, and I managed ot crash to game by firing a rocket into a building. I'm assuming that the building would have collapsed had I spent $200 on a useless card.

Did Agiea really think this would catch on? CPU's can handle physics calculations just fine.

bit-tech.net | Unreal Tournament 3 - PhysX Content

Bit Tech's review of the Physx element of UT3. Basically, it's poop.

I'd love to see physics properly implemented in games - imagine you're playing Call of Duty, and you're sheltering in a house. A tank fires on you, and the house collapses completely like a stack of cards. Or you're behind a wooden bench, and bullets keep carving niches out of it.

Granted, Crysis' tin shacks were built up of simple parts, but that's thing kind of mess I like to be able to make, and it didn't require an £80 piece of hardware just to handle the physics either.

Now that kind of thing would be worth buying a Physx card for.

Yea, its not going to be worth buying them cards, till they just sign on with nvidia and make a secondary CPU on the GFX ccard.. Then they might be worth buying, only if they aren't 200$ more than the base card...