"Yes, but how many polygons?" An artist blog entry with interesting numbers

IIRC, the Master Chief received a reduction in polygons in Halo 2

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Magna Carta 2
Crosell - 22,546, head - 9,002
Elga - 25,059
Juto - 26,209
Melissa Villanger - 22,480
Schuenzeit Baren - 20,056
Zephie - 23,618

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
Deadpool - 13,922
Hsein-Ko - 14,050
Jill Valentine - 16,197
Morrigan - 18,994
Ryu - 19,233

Mass Effect, X360, 2007
Saren - 15,076
Sheppard + armor + weapons - ~20,000-25,000 polygons

Mass Effect 3
Bakara - 12,928
EDI (DLC) - 28,831
Fem Shep (Systems Alliance formal) - 17,628
Fem Shep (base armour) - 22,329
Miranda - 18,944, head - 9,378
Nyreen Kandros (C1) - 16,690
Nyreen Kandros (C2) - 19,105
Reaper (Destroyer) - 121,021
Shepard (male, N7 Defender Armor) - 25,440
Wrex - 11,906

Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, PC, 2002
Character - 4096 polygons

Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker (HD Collection)
Big Boss - 4,497

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Gamecube, 2005 (Small mistake here, it's not on GC but PS2)
Snake - 4,000 polygons

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Solid Snake - 5-10,000 (two LODs) http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...12&id=14708441
Geko - 7,777

Metroid Prime
Samus (w/ cannon) - 9800
Samus (w/o cannon) - 7622

Metroid Prime 2
Samus (w/ cannon) - 9800
Samus (w/o cannon) - 7622
Samus (light suit) - 9,744 or ~10K with lightbeam cannon

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Samus - 18,962

Metroid Prime: Other M
MB - 14,119
Samus (Power Suit) - 15,342
Samus (Varia Suit) - 15,280

Midnight Club, Xbox360/PS3, 2007
Cars - 100,000 polygons

Mirror's Edge
Faith ~ 20,000

Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, PS2/Xbox/GC, 2002
Characters - ~7,000-10,000

Mortal Kombat 4, Zeus Arcade Board, 1997
Peak number of polygons per second - 1.2 million quad patches**

Mortal Kombat (2011)
Goro - 19,414
Liu Kang - 19,044
Raiden - 20,003
Smoke - 20,996
Sub-Zero - 18,985
Sub-Zero, Cyber - 19,363

Nier
Emil - 13,487
Kaine (DLC) - 16,054
Nier (jacket) - 12,147
Nier (young) - 16,340

Ninja Gaiden 2
Sonia - 41,697

Ninja Gaiden 3
Ayane (cloaked) - 31,364
Momiji - 58,158
Ryu Hayabusa (Kimono) - 22,438
Ryu Hayabusa (Evil) - 30,875
Ryu Hayabusa (Infected, shirtless) - 35,717
Ryu Hayabusa (Infected) - 36,089

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Xbox - 3,000
PS3 - 20,000
Hi-res - 529,000

P.N.03
Vanessa Schneider - 14,993

Prince of Perisa (2008)
Elika - 22,372
Prince - 21,880

Project Gotham Racing 3, X360, 2005
Cars - 80,000-100,000 polygons (interior + exterior), damages add between 10,000 and 20,000 more polygons per car
Brooklyn Bridge - 600,000 polygons (LOD might be included)
Manhattan Bridge - 1 million polygons (LOD might be included)

Project Gotham Racing 4
Car exteriors - 20-30,000
Car interiors - 20-30,000

Red Dead Redemption
John Marston - 14,980
John Marston (Deadly Assassin) - 13,362

Resident Evil 4, Gamecube, 2005
Leon - 10,000 polygons

Resident Evil 6
Ada Wong - 20,368
Chris Redfield - 22,240
Helena - 19,821
Leon Kennedy - 14,358
Sherry Birkin - 15,620, (7,172 for head)

Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles
Annet Birkin - 12,396
Chris (S.T.A.R.S.) - 10,621
Chris (alt) - 15,130
Claire (cowgirl) - 14,925
Claire (RE2) - 17,062
Claire (red vest) - 15,032
Claire (white jacket) - 17,797
Krauser (RE4) - 11,411
Krauser (red shirt) - 15,935
Leon (RE2) - 10,617
Leon (RE4) - 10,433
Leon (tourist) - 12,046

Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
Ada Wong - (bandaged) 12,291
Albert Wesker - 11,888
Billy Coen - 9,592
Carlos Oliveira - 15,954, 7,646 for head
Chris Redfield - 10,540
Hunter - 4,857
Jill Valentine (Casual) - 12,087
Jill Valentine (hooded jacket) - 14,619
Jill Valentine (S.TA.R.S.) - 11,708
leech zombie 2 - 15,756
leech zombie - 7,176
Mutated girl in chains - 10,221
mutated leech boss - 13,486
Nemesis - 10,370
Nemesis mutated - 20,537
Rebecca Chambers - 11,512
scorpion boss - 14,854
T-A.L.O.S. - 34,137
zombie - 5,630
Zombie Baboon - 8,248
zombie bat 9,486

Rumble Roses XX
Reiko - 34,042

Silent Hill 3
Heather - 5,731
Douglas - 8,799

Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces
unspecified plane - 1900
cockpit - 2800
hangar model - 3600

Sonic Generations
Dr. Eggman - 32,510
Knuckles - 11,752
Sonic (new) - 17,295
Sonic (old) - 19,787
Super Sonic (classic) - 19,795

Sonic Unleashed
Sonic (werehog) - 19,314 without fur

Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny, PSP
Characters ~3-4,000

Soul Calibur IV, PS360
Characters ~20,000
Darth Vader - 21,158
Yoda - 17,097

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Donkey Kong - 4,758
Luigi - 5,632
Mario - 5,227
Marth - 6,249
Princess Peach - 6,316
Samus Zero - 5,089
Solid Snake - 5,149
Wario - 5,762

Splinter Cell: Conviction
Sam - 25,332

Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Sam (scuba gear) - 10,340

Star Ocean 4: The Last Dope
Arumat - 15,712

Street Fighter IV
Characters - 16,000
Environments - 300,000

Super Mario Sunshine, GC, 2002
Mario - 1500 polygons
Levels - ~ 60,000 polygons

Tekken 6
Jin Kazama - 20,240

Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Asuka Kazama (kimono) - 18,353
Jin Kazama - 19,272
Jun Kazama - 19,262

Tomb Raider
(Lara)
TR1 - 230
TRIII - 300
Angel of Darkness - 4,400
Legend - 9,800
Underworld - 32,816

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, PS3, 2007
Main characters - ~20,000-30,000 polygons
Drake - ~30,000 polygons
Pirates - ~12,000-15,000 polygons

Uncharted 2
Chloe - 45,000, each subsequent LOD has halved count (3 LODs)
Drake - 37,000, no LOD in SP
Drake's Hair - 4,000

Vanquish
Augmented Reality Suit - 13,530

Velvet Assassin
Violet - 14,219

Virtua Fighter, Model 1
Akira ~2300
Jeffrey ~2000
Pai ~2000
Sarah ~1900
Lau ~1900
Wolf ~1800
Kage ~1500
Jacky ~1500

Virtua Fighter 4, Naomi 2, 2001
Jacky - 14,000 polygons

Virtua Fighter 4, PS2, 2002
Jacky - 7,000 polygons

Virtua Fighter 5, Arcade/PS3/X360, 2006
Character - ~40,000 with diffuse, specular and normal maps
Background - 100,000 - 300,000

V-Rally 3, PS2, 2002
Vehicles - 15,000-16,000 (Might count multi-passes)
Stages - 500,000

The Walking Dead
Lee Everett - 4,688

Warhammer 40,000
Titus - 19,436

The Witcher
Geralt - 10,875

The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition
Geralt of Rivia (Blue Stripes) - 31,021
Geralt of Rivia (default, light jacket) - 26,091
Geralt of Rivia (outfit 2) - 26,088
Geralt of Rivia (rags) - 17,424
Geralt of Rivia (Seltkirk) - 31,624
Letho - 20,027
Lorweth - 15,411
Philippa Eilhart (red dress) - 21,320
Triss Merigold - 24,526
Vernon Roche - 17,496
Ves - 22,791

XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Game Designer Sid Meier - 18,684

*Might be a cut-scene model
**No precisions whether it's actual rendered polygons or just the number of polygons sent to transform, pre Z-pass and culling.

 

10,000 polygons for Leon in RE4? Damn that seems high. Awesome looking game for the time.

And Alyx having the most polygons in HL2 isn't surprising. Hehe.

 

Jak I

Jak - 4000 polygons

Jak II

Jak - 10,000 polygons

Onimusha Warlords if I remember correctly also had some character models around 8,000 - 10,000 polygons or at least that's what Capcom claimed

 

Lost planet
Wayne - 12392 polygons (but finally 17765 polygons for compatibility with motion blur effect)

 

Wow the GC was really juggling a huge number of polys in RE4 with multiple characters and very detailed environments.

 

MC is normal mapped in Halo2

 

I knew that. I just find it kinda cool how they reduced the actual polycount from the first game and that it isn't readily obvious. Though it must take up a lot more memory, right? (ooh ah... big deal ). I wonder what they did exactly for the Halo 3 model (beyond the glove change and higher resolution normal maps).

 

Cool post, always interesting to see stats from other games.

 

I shudder to think what the zenith will be like for the fellas at Naughty Dog on the ps3.

 

"In Lost Planet, each character is 10-20K polys. A VS robot is 30-40K polys. A background is about 500K. With shadows and other hidden rendering cost, it's about 3 million polys per frame. In Dead Rising, it's about 4 million polys."

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=919807&postcount=116

 

Seriously, those guys are lunatics. The Jak series of games are one of my favorites, I'm crossing my fingers that they make a PS3 Jak title. Anyone have geometry numbers for God Of War 2? I just started playing this, and it just blows me away what they got the good 'ol PS2 to render.

 

Yes

I wonder what is the polycount for Lair. Look at polygon water effect! You can see polygon water, city, dragons, everything at 1080P. Amazing for me to see. Also GT5 which has amazing car details for 60fps 1080P.

Xbox360 also has one or two amazing games for polygons. I think probably Kameo has some scenes with amazing polygons. Look at thousands of trolls! Look at beautiful buildings, grass and trees!

 

Uncharted's hero character is pretty high poly too, especially the ingame cinematics version... At least 20K but maybe even more, because of the hair.

 

They're all pretty lowpoly individually, though. Plenty of visible polygon edges on everything...

 

Hey, thought about making this thread a sticky? As people add entries, just add that data to the first post. It would be a polygon repository, of sorts.

 

are you sure?

Even the enemy's shield is nice and round, not edged. Background mountains are also nice and round.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/302010222_afa86a6ece_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/302009460_9c87ffc1d3_b.jpg

I do not see much edges my friend, only sometimes on parts of the dragon, because of less animation bones for that part like wings or tail.

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/242/reviews/929230_20070831_screen024.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/236/929230_20070825_screen009.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/242/reviews/929230_20070831_screen003.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/092/929230_20070403_screen006.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/242/reviews/929230_20070831_screen012.jpg

 

Some that I know

Link in WW 2800 tri
Link in TP 6900 tri
Mario in SMS 1500 tri
SMS Levels are around 60k each

Xbox DOA character about 10k
VF4 character is about 15k

edit: I accidently put VF5, I meant VF4, arcade.

 

Medal of Honour: Allied Assault (PC '02) -4096 polygons for characters.

HL2 - Cinematic Mod ~50k polys for Alyx ( ).

 

Very cool thread, I agree with the sticky!

Gears is already names... lets see... oh, PGR3. Cars: 80,000-120,000 polys per car. About half for the exteriors, half for the interiors.

Did someone mention GT5 cars are 200k each?