[360] Alan Wake - Still awake

[RenegadeRocks]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19856039&postcount=1116

I find it kinda ironic how a lot of the textures in Alan Wake (even when presented in bullshot form) can't match up to a game Remedy created some some 7 years ago. :/

Textures in 2003(Max Payne 2):

Textures in 2010(Alan Wake):

Found this at Gaf forums !

 

[groper]

Found this at Gaf forums !

Alan Wake 2005

Alan Wake 2009

The dx8.3 version of 2005 looks rather outdated for today's standards.

 

[Malibu]

5 minutes of new footage.

http://www.gameblog.fr/news_13854_alan-wake-5-minutes-de-gameplay-inedit

Eurogamer Hands-on

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/alan-wake-hands-on

Videogamer Hands-on

http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/alan_wake/preview-2215.html

 

[groper]

5 minutes of new footage.

http://www.gameblog.fr/news_13854_alan-wake-5-minutes-de-gameplay-inedit

You beat me to it.
From art direction and design to lighting,atmosphere and story, it looks to me that AW is going to be the epitome of this generation of consoles.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Alan Wake 2005


Alan Wake 2009


The dx8.3 version of 2005 looks rather outdated for today's standards.

The 2003 screenshot is from Max Payne 2 in gaf thread. It was just showing how Max Payne 2 had better textures than Alan Wake (both from Remedy) 7 years ago. Not showing progression of Alan Wake

 

[scently]

Fantastic looking game, can't wait.

 

[Rotmm]

The 2003 screenshot is from Max Payne 2 in gaf thread. It was just showing how Max Payne 2 had better textures than Alan Wake (both from Remedy) 7 years ago. Not showing progression of Alan Wake

Indeed. In fact, comparing it to a title like Heavy Rain truly shows how ahead of the loop Remedy were back in 2003.

 

[groper]

The 2003 screenshot is from Max Payne 2 in gaf thread. It was just showing how Max Payne 2 had better textures than Alan Wake (both from Remedy) 7 years ago. Not showing progression of Alan Wake

The textures in MP2 were superb for the time and even today they still look great as you can see here.
However i m not gonna enter in a discussion about graphics who could run perfectly in a Geforce4 with 128mb of memory and how they are supposed to look better from today graphics.

Btw, in the matter of the location in that AW screenshot i would have picked the better lighted screen over the darker one.

 

[czekon]

looks fantastic no doubt, my only concern is gameplay, i only hope gampelay wise bar is set as high as gfx wise.

 

[Rangers]

Five minutes of new (truly new) Alan Wake footage. Looks very nice! But bad tearing Hope they clean that up.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

The textures in MP2 were superb for the time and even today they still look great as you can see here.
However i m not gonna enter in a discussion about graphics who could run perfectly in a Geforce4 with 128mb of memory and how they are supposed to look better from today graphics.

Btw, in the matter of the location in that AW screenshot i would have picked the better lighted screen over the darker one.

I know Dude. There's an even better day time shot here :

I wasn't saying better graphics or nything. I just found an amusing post at neogaf which showed how much better the textures were in Max Payne 2, 7 years ago, by the same studio Remedy. Of course, the screen of Max Payne 2 is from the PC version. Maybe we could have seen similar textures in ALan Wake PC version too, but alas its no more.

 

[Neb]

Alan Wake 2005
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8096/aw2005.jpg

Alan Wake 2009
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3472/aw2009.jpg

The dx8.3 version of 2005 looks rather outdated for today's standards.

Actually DX9 version and this is from 2005, you just picked a muted scene. Funny they had it running fairly smoothly back then in 2005 on the x1800xt/720p at gameshow. XD
http://www.gamersyde.com/pop_images_alan_wake-1020-1.html
http://www.gamersyde.com/pop_images_alan_wake-1020-2.html
http://www.gamersyde.com/pop_images_alan_wake-1208-2.html

 

[RenegadeRocks]

5 minutes of new footage.

http://www.gameblog.fr/news_13854_alan-wake-5-minutes-de-gameplay-inedit

Whoopsie ! Voice of God in there ? The Truman Show ? !
The atmosphere is tight, but not so sure about the gameplay. The clip doesn't show much .

 

[Billy Idol]

5 minutes of new footage.

http://www.gameblog.fr/news_13854_alan-wake-5-minutes-de-gameplay-inedit

Eurogamer Hands-on

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/alan-wake-hands-on

Videogamer Hands-on

http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/alan_wake/preview-2215.html

Wow, looks great! I hope that a big part of the gameplay is action stuff

I hope that the slow motion effects during fighting are actually in the game - this was very cool!

 

[warb]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19856039&postcount=1116


Found this at Gaf forums !

Max Payne 2 had higher-res textures than any console game I can think of, and I know there was more than twice as much memory in my PC in 2003, than is in 360.

Game is superb overall.

 

[groper]

Actually DX9 version and this is from 2005, you just picked a muted scene. Funny they had it running fairly smoothly back then in 2005 on the x1800xt/720p at gameshow. XD
http://www.gamersyde.com/pop_images_alan_wake-1020-1.html
http://www.gamersyde.com/pop_images_alan_wake-1020-2.html
http://www.gamersyde.com/pop_images_alan_wake-1208-2.html

I know that it was dx9 but it looks like dx8.5 with the flat lighting and texture surfaces.
I picked intetionally this screenshot as an answer to the clown from NeoGaf who made this comparison.

 

[Neb]

I know that it was dx9 but it looks like dx8.5 with the flat lighting and texture surfaces.
I picked intetionally this screenshot as an answer to the clown from NeoGaf who made this comparison.

Yeah but that is due to TOD moment not lack of lighting. Thats why I posted those links that are from 2005 version and has HDR well pronounced at those TOD moments. Otherwise yes comparing a game with limited scene size vs one with big scenes and dense vegetation is not fair at all. There are far more surfaces in Alan Wake that needs texturing.

 

[nightshade]

Is Alan Wake first console game after Farcry 2 to have volumetric lighting goodness ?

 

[Kameradschaft]

The new vids at Eurogamer were very impressive - definitely the best looking game on the 360.

My only concern so far is the screen tearing which is still present and really distracting...hopefully the retail version will not have such problems.

 

[liolio]

The new vids at Eurogamer were very impressive - definitely the best looking game on the 360.

My only concern so far is the screen tearing which is still present and really distracting...hopefully the retail version will not have such problems.

I don't think so... sadly but in the vid it looks more present during cut scene strangely.