Still a bottom-of-the-heap game, graphically speaking. The stencil shadowing could hardly be more obvious in these shots.
Namco & From Software unveil Xbox 360 games
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Evil_Cloud
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There's quite a lot of things going on, who knows it might shape into a better looking title over the following months.
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It's amazing the difference in quality I'm seeing in these games... I just saw that incredibly realistic shot of PGR3 and then I come here and 
There's a huge disparity between top and bottom pics too. I guess this is another game of 'We're working on it. At the moment it looks like something you scraped off the bottom of your shoe, but we'll release pics anyway. I mean, we have to get noticed. We're only 18 months away from release. And then we'll follow up with good looking pics later just to confuse you.'
Someone shoud set up an International Bureau of Screen Shots to control what the public sees and not allow alpha-development screens to get out there!
Someone shoud set up an International Bureau of Screen Shots to control what the public sees and not allow alpha-development screens to get out there!
Mefisutoferesu
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What's even stranger is that in one of the new pictures the main character is in a gun fight in the middle of the street and the surrounding people are perfectly calm... obviously NPC AI hasn't been implemented.
Confidence-Man
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Mefisutoferesu said:
It's implemented in one of the trailers; the people run and scream when the main guy shoots someone. NPCs seemed a little slow to react, though.
ZoinKs! said:one said:
I thought it looked kinda neat until I saw this pic:
Then I felt sick, as if I had eaten too many jelly beans.
WTF!!! is she holding a gatling gun?? LOL...wow...them japanese have some weird imaginations...or is it American sect creating this game...hmmm
Shark Sandwich
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There's something weird going in with those bricks in the second to last screenshot. And if you need proof that Frame City Killer is being developed in America, look no further than that last shot. It has. . . crates!
God that looks bad.
Oh wait i can't say that cause it's an X360 shot.
Oh wait i can't say that cause it's an X360 shot.
Shark Sandwich
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_phil_ said:
So true. Ever since I read Old Man Murray's crate review system I can't help but notice crates everywhere! They even manage to work themselves into a game where you'd least expect it.
Frame City Killer looks like a GTA-esque game, yet they still found a way to fit crates into it. I can just imagine the developers: "Ok it's time to do an indoor mission. What can we do? I know! We'll have the player go to a warehouse FILLED WITH CRATES!"
Obvious fawful character design and texture work aside, the worst thing about Frame Killer City, if you ask me, it's the really low poly environments.
In some pictures it's almost an eyesore.
Now my question would be, why do you think the environements are so poly starved?
Is it because of the limitation of the UE3.0 when dealing with in-game streamed environments content (Lack of procedurally generated models, like the Jak serie), or is it because of the data read speed of the medium (X360 games, other than MMOs, have to be playable without the HDD. Therefore, no pre-caching.)? Or is it due to Namco laziness? Or, probably, it's due to a mix of all that?
In some pictures it's almost an eyesore.
Now my question would be, why do you think the environements are so poly starved?
Is it because of the limitation of the UE3.0 when dealing with in-game streamed environments content (Lack of procedurally generated models, like the Jak serie), or is it because of the data read speed of the medium (X360 games, other than MMOs, have to be playable without the HDD. Therefore, no pre-caching.)? Or is it due to Namco laziness? Or, probably, it's due to a mix of all that?
Mefisutoferesu
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Is it possible that the game WASN'T design from ground up for the XBox 360? Perhaps it was originally meant for the original and piece by piece they're transforming the graphics...? Also, I do get the feeling it's a bit of "laziness" or not caring... very much I get the feeling that this is Namco's attempt at appealing to the American market... American's aren't the only one's with stereotypes. All the Japanese developers look towards the US and see that only GTA-esque and FPS games are loved so their experimenting if they should trying that stuff. The whole thing screams experiment.
