is there any multiplayer announced so far? i'd love to play Red Steel in vs mode with this control scheme. not that it'd be totally realistic but at least would be a bold step up - i'm tired of playing FPS' against desktop maniacs who in real life can't hit an elephant sitting still sideways at 10m distance.
Hands-on with Revolution in the next GameInformer - Ubisoft's Red Steel, aka "Katana"
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So you need to gesture to the TV to be good.sfried said:
I thought Nintendo was aiming for a more family friendly approach...
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Inane_Dork said:
what?
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pc999 said:
What a cool site! But ill just hang out until E3 for all the info and pass on subscribing for now.
What's up, nerds, just got my new GI in the mail yesterday. First, those screens are definitely not concept art. Not that people here were doubting, but you can clearly see that they're rendered images (polygon edges, a few low-res textures, etc). In glossy high-fidelity, they do look very "supercharged Gamecube." If they're target renders, they're not very ambitious. I expect that they are in-engine. I do see a few nice soft shadows from moving objects (result of a touch-up? Or real?), and people have already commented on the nice lighting tricks in a few scenes. For one thing, I"m not seeing any Gouraud artificats, so maybe there is an updated fully programmable pixel pipeline. I do think that the characters could use some normal mapping, but polygon budgets are increased, so everyone's fingers are fully articulated (but no 3D fingernails, so some people will be disappointed), and faces look much nicer than most current-gen titles. The particles look okay, but nothing really beyond what we've already seen. It's got a heck of a lot more shine than any cross-platform game, thought.
pc999 said:
it's not necessary for the Hollywood to be fully progamabe - all it takes for per-pixel lighting is a dot3 combiner op and cubemaps. but that's just if you want to be reasonable, i.e. if you don't have tons of fillrate and trisetup rate to burn. if you do, though, you can go with a voodoo-level functionality and still get per-pixel lighting. but that'd be unreasonable ; )
This is OT, but I will repeat myself again:
Better than GC can be diferent than XB360/PS3 like (even at 480p).
Even if they put a X1300 or maybe even a X1600 would not be in par with those, but it would be much more powerfull than this.
Anyway a second generation Gekko/Flipper (ie, thinghs like VMX and/or dualcore, expanded TEV more hard wired fxs ...) would be very nice, probably giving much better games and gfx and still keep this very cheap/cool, that would let me(we) happy and still alot behind the competition. (and BTW I really like that the price will be (from IGN devs) between 99$-199$)
Still, like I posted in a previus post, meybe it is better than that, but they had little time with the near final SDKs (which are he only ones that brings chips that resemble to Rev HW).
Better than GC can be diferent than XB360/PS3 like (even at 480p).
Even if they put a X1300 or maybe even a X1600 would not be in par with those, but it would be much more powerfull than this.
Anyway a second generation Gekko/Flipper (ie, thinghs like VMX and/or dualcore, expanded TEV more hard wired fxs ...) would be very nice, probably giving much better games and gfx and still keep this very cheap/cool, that would let me(we) happy and still alot behind the competition. (and BTW I really like that the price will be (from IGN devs) between 99$-199$)
Still, like I posted in a previus post, meybe it is better than that, but they had little time with the near final SDKs (which are he only ones that brings chips that resemble to Rev HW).
The article also said that Ubi did a lot of initial work on Gamecube development kits. I wonder how much first-gen titles will differ from 2nd and 3rd gen. If it's "slightly updated Flipper," I'd expect the capabilities to be maxed by launch-window titles. If it's "significantly updated Flipper," then we can expect to a few new tricks along the way, since it won't be hindered by having the PS2 as the lead SKU for its games.
I'm just not enough of an expert to say if the lighting is really per-pixel or not. I've seen some amazing stuff pulled of with Gouraud shading (such as every Jade engine game), but it just looks to smooth and curvy to be Gouraud. I wonder if they hardwired per-pixel sighting into the chip?
I'm just not enough of an expert to say if the lighting is really per-pixel or not. I've seen some amazing stuff pulled of with Gouraud shading (such as every Jade engine game), but it just looks to smooth and curvy to be Gouraud. I wonder if they hardwired per-pixel sighting into the chip?
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Very good to hear.sfried said:
