SW1313: Why are people so convinced this game is film quality?

[Shaderhacker]

All,

I've seen several footage of this game. It has a lot of great artistic textures (shadows seems to be baked into a lot of the textures) giving it that 'photoreal' look. But aside from that and the FX (easily using PhysX), I'm not quite sure why people are convinced this game (which uses the old UE3 engine) blows everything done today out of the water.

Discuss..

 

[digitalwanderer]

Story.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Was already discussed in this thread when the E3 video came out. No one was blown away except the presenter doing the preview who was jizzing his pants over the same kind of thing we'd already been seeing the year before in other games . I think he was just a Star Wars/console fanboy.

 

[Grall]

Does UE3 really do prebaked shadows? I'm not sure there'd be much point/benefit in that, since it realtime shadows quite effectively these days.

 

[BRiT]

Which people are convinced of this? I don't know of any who are.

Anyways, continue discussion in the existing thread: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=61976