There's plenty of discussion regarding the youtube vid going on in the impression thread.
I guess the elephant in the room was too big to ignore, even there.
Well I said debunked to my satisfaction.
But when a RAD spokesman says it's impossible to finish the game in the time that is the duration of the video, you don't think that's debunked sufficiently? Are you saying RAD are being dishonest?
Well, video evidence > PR responses in my book. I do think RAD is being dishonest. If you notice, the person who is being interviewed never refutes any specific length claim. He simply groups them together as "numbers". That way he protects himself against any possible counterclaims.
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Now, having skimmed through all the walkthrough these are my impressions about the visual side of the game:
+No jaggies.
+Good use of object based motion blur.
+Lighting. The baked lightmaps look great and the volume lighting adds a lot of depth.
+Materials. They nailed pretty much all the surfaces in the game, except skin.
-Particle effects. Fire in particular looks atrocious. Games two generations ago had better fire effects. I'm absolutely serious. Rain was very disappointing as well. Not bad but barely noticeable.
-Faces. The skin shader doesn't hold up in bright lighting conditions and the facial animations seem to be using too few bones so you get very simplistic face deformation when the characters display heavy emotions like anger.
-Lighting inconsistencies. Sometimes the characters lack shadows under direct lighting. It can be jarring but it doesn't happen too often.
The art design and setting reminds me of RE4 a lot. A remake with this engine would be glorious.
Bonus GIF showing off some of the volumetric lighting in the game. No spoilers:
http://i.imgur.com/xssclbu.gif
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