Resident Evil 4 Revealed

I don't think you can reach on that conclusion merely on the basis of few mag scans and clips. Lets wait and watch.

 

No SH4 is "wide open" in terms of environment & gameplay elements. They're rarely texturing 2 or 3 creatures in detail during fight scenes. (if that at times) As the fighting as well has been somewhat constrained & repetetive. (the pipe) I've seen the SH4 trailer, while good & disturbing looks to be maintaining SH3's formula. Beautiful cutscene modelling, disturbing creatures, blood, gore, & horrific imagery is what the series is based upon, as well as psychological horror.

 

IGN has a similar article. This game sounds like it's going to kick ass. Whether it kicks RE1's ass or not is hard to say, since RE1 was about as good as Resident Evil (or survival horror) gets.. but it looks great.

They say it's easily the prettiest game on GCN, and that it runs at a "constant" 30fps which is a relief.

I can't stand framerate issues..

 

In regards to the self shadowing, while I can't load up the images (damn site restrictions!). Don't forget on of the large bosses in Starfox adventures had a good use of self shadowing and that was at 60fps.

It probably wouldn't be all that hard to implement at 30fps on the characters in this title.

 

The texturing & detail is simply remarkable, what Mikami & his team are accomplishing is phenomenal.

 

http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EpZAlpkyFyWlvicQfc.php

30 sec movie footage!

Looks like we'll have enviromental damage.

 

Something fun, here in france RE4 exclusive goes to.... PS2 Magazine !
Now, if that's not the lamest error in the history of video games advertising, I'd like to know what it is...

Giving exclusive coverage of a game that WON'T be released on the console a mag is talking about is rather.... STUPID !

 

Then again, teasing ps2 fans and make them salivate, then say oops, its not on ps2 but its on gamecube, could make them go buy one to play RE4

 

Since the first link is down there is another source to the 35 second video here:

http://www.gcadvanced.com/commercials/re4.wmv

Very nice!

 

The fire in that video looks really impressive. Probably the best real-time fire in a game I've ever seen.

 

Fire in RTCW is still very nice, and that's a VERY old game...
Strange how fire is such a difficult thing to recreate realistically, whether real-time or not.. I mean i've been struggling to make "real looking" fire for ages with Maya.. Even most of the fire effects in Hollywood movies look "nice but not real"... It either looks or moves "odd"... If you know what i mean... Unless they go the digitised way, which is cheating

 

Killzone fire and smock effects look very good IMO.

 

From the clips I've seen from KZ, the fire looks pretty week compared to RE4. The fire in RE4 looks like it has volume and it moves realistically. In KZ it just looks like transparent textures. The smoke in KZ up close doesn't look too realistic. From a distance it looks real. Anyway it seems like RE4 is using the same awesome particle engine from RE0 and REmake.

Also just wanna clarify that when I mentioned real-time fire, I didn't mean fire that dynamically changes according to physics. I'm sure it's just scripted animation of fire being rendered in RE4. It looks real nonetheless.

 

So, will they be able to fit RE4 on a single GC disk?? Are there any GC games that come on 2 or more disks?

 

RE0 came on 2.

 

Resident Evil Rebirth came on 2 also.

Zelda The Wind Waker Collector came with a second bonus disk.

 

Baten Kaitos also comes on two disks.

 

MGS:TS also 2 discs