MGS4 realtime demonstration by Kojima

[one]

A report of "MGS4 on PS3" event @ TGS 2005
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050916/mgs4.htm

Preliminary to the MGS4 trailer, the E3 trailer and its sequel new PS2-generated joke trailer "METAL GEAR RAIDEN SNAKE ERASER" were shown. Then Kutaragi's video message came ("MGS team is beyond my expectation I want to play MGS4 now blah blah"), and the MGS4 trailer was on screen.

BUT, the awesome thing is, after the trailer shown, they picked a scene in the trailer and actually manipulated (zoom-in, zoom-out, changing viewpoints, adding effects etc.) Snake in realtime on a PS3 devkit, on the stage...

self shadow
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050916/mgs408.htm
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050916/mgs409.htm
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050916/mgs410.htm
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050916/mgs411.htm

depth of field
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050916/mgs412.htm

lighting and fog
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050916/mgs413.htm
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050916/mgs415.htm

(engineers controlling it)
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050916/mgs414.htm

Then Otacon scene was explained. Otacon is also in realtime, not movie.

 

[London Geezer]

Cool find, one!!

 

[therealskywolf]

Looks awesome.

 

[Carl B]

Kojima is a god among men.

 

[Metalgearih]

What an awesome turn of events. MGS4 shown with proof of devkit manipulation. I'm baffled to realize that this isn't even the Final version of the PS3 Dev Kits. They were supposed to ship in December as far as I recall(from PS3 Meeting).

Thanks a lot One my friend. I hope this puts any doubt to rest against MGS4 being realtime or not!

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Finally real hardware results! Great find.

 

[Phil]

Excellent find One. Excellent. :smile:

 

[onetimeposter]

if you look at jap to english translation, those engineers were not playing it, they were adjusting zoom in and out. not playing it.

In order to prove the fact that it is moving in real time, you stopped image with the scene where the snake has been ready the gun, zoom in, executed zoom out and the modification etc. of camera work.

Just like in the Ruby ATI demo

 

[dizzyd]

And your point is?

 

[Mefisutoferesu]

LOL Metal Gear Raiden!! ^^

BY the way, anyone noticed the headset one of the devs manipulating MGS4 was wearing? Kojima said online would be part of MGS4 was well, you think that's a little part of it?

 

[onetimeposter]

And your point is?

that this level of realtime has been done before

 

[speng]

Can we ban onetimeposter please? He has very little constructive to contribute in his posts.

Excellent find One, and thanks for the video links last night.

It is amazing what Kojima and team has done.

Speng.

 

[c0_re]

yea sure it's looks great but jeesh you guys are sad settle down, until we see actual gameplay no one knows what it's going to be like. i'ts just like Halo1\2 the realtime cutscenes had 2x better graphics than the actual game. But yea it looks great I cna't wait to play it hopefully it has alot more action than the old series. I ahve Splinter Cell for the creep around stealth action genre

 

[Lysander]

I can not download any movie, just pics; what should I do?
The presentation (based on pics) resembles an Unreal tournament presentation for ps3 at e3.

 

[one]

I can not download any movie, just pics; what should I do?
The presentation (based on pics) resembles an Unreal tournament presentation for ps3 at e3.

It has only pics, not movie. Wait for IGN or Gamespot (if they could attend it)

 

[BlueTsunami]

The presentation (based on pics) resembles an Unreal tournament presentation for ps3 at e3.

Exactly what I thought. I guess Sony and developers have heard the outcry of pre-renderdness and wanting to see actual proof of in game visuals.

 

[Carl B]

Can we ban onetimeposter please? He has very little constructive to contribute in his posts.

Agreed. The trolling is insane.

 

[Alpha_Spartan]

While the trailer looks good, so do all trailers. This is about on par with the Chrome Hounds trailer graphically, except the textures in MGS4 look like crap. I can see why some people are excited, but this isn't exactly a graphical coup de a'tat. It's been done before. Once the excitement dies down, everyone should take a critical look at things in the grand scheme. Is this really any better on a technical level than anything we've already seen?

The Killzone PS3 movie got me more excited than this. The cinematography is excellent, but technically it's on par with what we've seen already.

 

[dizzyd]

Do you have a link to this Chrome Hounds trailer so I can judge for myself? Also where did you view the MGS4 trailer? Was it the same one I saw where someone was pointing a camera at the screen?

 

[_phil_]

Do you have a link to this Chrome Hounds trailer so I can judge for myself? Also where did you view the MGS4 trailer? Was it the same one I saw where someone was pointing a camera at the screen?

don't bother , it's not worth. just say 'ok' to whatever he says -> same as PC-E.