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Xbox 2 Game Trailer
EvilAvatar has word via a forum of a Trailer for an Xbox 2 video game called War-Devil. Our first look at what Microsoft's next-next generation console can do looks pretty good.
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A trailer for a video game has excellent graphics! Who's have thought it?
What's that? The in-game graphics might not be as good?
The advert might have been created on a render-farm?
They've been doing this kind of thing for years?
Tell me it's not true!
(oh, and the plot looked terrible)
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Sure, the trailer was pretty. But games have had pretty cinema scenes for a long time now. The real question will be what does the *ingame* graphics look like? This of course what be known for some time, I expect.
Not everyone thinks that. I personally will never own an Xbox or Xbox 2, regardless of which games are made for it, simply because it's Microsoft...even if someone gave me one for free, I'd sell it. I currently have a PS2, plus every Nintendo and Sega console going back to the 8-bit ones, and I plan on getting both a PS3 and whatever Nintendo calls their next system. I've passed on good games before, just because they're Xbox. I was a huge Panzer Dragoon fan, I have all 3 Saturn games, but I won't play Panzer Dragoon Orta unless it's ported to another system. I feel it is ehtically wrong to support Microsoft by buying their products or playing games on their systems...plus I'm incredibly stubborn.
This is a nice pre-rendered CGI trailer. Read the information on the developers site. These are million plus polygon characters that show the overall look they are trying to achieve. There are some screenshots on the site but even these are listed as works in progress. They only show some architecture and working lower res models.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
No conflict for me. MS Hardware, as you put it, seems to be moderate at best. And worse than the quality of their products is their complete lack of originality. I mean the PS2, like it or hate it, is a peice of creative genius. Wether you think the final out come of the PS2 is good or not you have to admit the concept of high through put no caching, in conjunction with multiple general purpose vector (matrix actually) processors is way above and beyond anything being done by MS. But if the rumors hold true and MS does move the XBox 2 over to a PowerPC architecture, they are atleast taking steps in the right directions.