Re: New generation game play

[Thomas Shaw <shawthomas(at)comcast.net>]

While it is true that allot of the very cool stuff that was shown at E3 
at the Sony PS3 conference has since been confirmed to have been 
pre-rendered "look" footage, we are now seeing actual game footage that 
is slightly less quality but still amazing. It's been mentioned before 
but the Unreal stuff was 100% real time. The Killzone2 stuff 
unfortunately was not real time. Recently, the makers of the Mobile Suit 
Gundum game released real time game play footage that looks almost as 
good as the video they showed at E3. Also, Unless, it's been doctored to 
look more like game play, the new teaser trailer for Resident Evil 5 on 
PS3 (goodbye Nintendo) looks damn hot, literally--it seems RE is moving 
to the desert.

One thing that still impresses from E3 regarding PS3, is that the 
mealtime gas station explosion demo and "a trillion rubber ducks and 2 
glasses of pouring water" demo  were all done "in processor" with no 
help from the mythical Nvidia RSX GPU. Go Cell processor!

While I was disappointed to learn of the somewhat deceptive use of 
pre-rendered "look" videos at E3, the recent release of actual game play 
screens seems to be mostly living up to those standards. ....getting 
excited again!

One last comment, It is amazing what a difference the use of shaders 
and  lighting makes in these games. In the latest Unreal3 presentation 
footage, the presenters stop the "video" and turn off the dynamic 
shadows and shaders so we can see what it would look like without them. 
While still nicely detailed, cuz of higher poly counts, it's not much 
different from a PS2 or xbox game. But when they turn them back 
on......oooooohh, there's the pretty.  This next generation of games is 
all about lighting and dynamics.

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>     *From:* owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]
>     *On Behalf Of *kim aldis
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:57 AM
>     *To:* XSI(at)Softimage.COM
>     *Subject:* New generation game play
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>     http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=5841&type=mov
>     <http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=5841&type=mov>
>      
>     anyone in games care to comment on whether or not we really can
>     expect this level of quality in the next gen consoles? If we can,
>     I'll have 4.
>      
>      kim(at)aldis.org.uk 	
>     kim(at)cg-soup.com 
>
>      

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