Gears of War 2

Native size screen vs zoomed in or compressed will always look washed out

Have a look at the original



Also you can have a look at some pics I posted before with the differences in the character model

Edit: also notice that the lighting color is different and its hitting them from different angles, from behind in the gow shot and front in the gow 2 shot so its only natural that it looks brighter in gow foto.

 

New Cliffy B interview:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33954.html

(lots of info tidbits)

- lots of blood buckets (blood trails from enemies and Marcus if he is injured on walls and ground)
- SP campaign "definitely longer"
- a couple of vehicle sections
- Carmine is back, why/how will be revealed in game
- lots of new varieties of locusts
- expanded MP, 5 vs 5
- lots of new executions (weapon specific)
- Dom is searching for his wife
- "hostages" fall apart while being used as shield (arms, legs etc.)
- more storyline
- you can press A to crawl away when you're badly hurt

 

Eurogamer interview.


2935x1684 images:
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/4/0/4/2/6/Assault1.jpg.jpg.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/4/0/4/2/6/Assault2.jpg.jpg.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/4/0/4/2/6/Assault3.jpg.jpg.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/4/0/4/2/6/Assault4.jpg.jpg.jpg

 

not sure if its just the lighting or I think the texture definitely took a hit for the big scale open battle. Color pallet is still the same, except with different color lighting.

 

What makes you say that? Have you got some comparative pics highlighting a drop in texture fidelity?

 

Funny... I thought Gears 2 had cleaner textures where comparable. i.e. characters & weapons. Looking at the comparison pics above, I see more detail on various sections of Marcus' armour.

 

And thats what it is, specialy noticeble on close ups.

 

hmm... the last time I play gears 1 was on PC with texture on very high, and I remember the Burmack looks very good when I fought him...

very close to this

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/291/942000_20071019_screen001.jpg

compare to gears 2

http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/4/0/4/2/6/Assault1.jpg.jpg.jpg

But I think I just prefer the old lighting better, black color actually stand out more which remind me of all those PS3 vs 360 screen shot where everything on PS3 looks washed out. Just my personal opinion of course.

 

Why are you comparing the PC edition of Gears?

 

I think I see where you're going wrong in this comparison

 

cuz Im bat S*** crazy..... lol, you're right, but its the only one a close up fight with the burmack which is what cought my eyes at first in those gears 2 shot

 

The blown up 2935x1684 image of Gears 2 doesn't flatter. Textures and model detail for the Brumak are much better than in Gears of War for Xbox 360.

 

I think the textures are just as good or better in Gow 2 for the brumak we need to see screens at the same distance and similar lighting to evaluate I think, the Brumak from Gow2 shows a hell lot more 3D detail though the chains on the Gow2 version are all 3D vs the 2D texture chains in the original.

 

The art direction looks great as usual, but I can't help but think it’s just the Unreal Engine 3 just more refined. It doesn’t give me that jaw-dropping “Awe” feeling it once did…

 

Thats only natural I guess, the same hardware the same engine only better but to be honest if they are able to pull everything off I'll be very impressed, by everything I mean a lot of locust on screen with individual AI a lot of destructible envoironmnets like in the tech vid, the "new" water in the game all that with better textures more polygons and smoother framerate at 720p and they've made my day and so did xbox 360.

 

New interview with Cliff Bleszinski.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=189166

 

"almost cracked a grin from Tomonobu Itagaki" wow

 

I wouldn't be surprised if he grinned during the chainsaw action.

 

Kojima is also a Gears fan. It's probably more acceptable to them than your average American FPS being in third person.

 

hehe I bet he will at least at home