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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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Someone set up a torrent to the Quicktime fast. I'm downloading it from the server and pieces of it are singed.
Direct away from face when opening.
...but that link seems to be a bit hosed so I couldn't even find the link to the trailer :(
After a wee bit of googling I figured this is it though
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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.
You can download the trailer/get more info from the developer's craptastic Flash site for the game: www.wardevil.com.
This is a 100% pre-rendered advertisement for a product that doesn't exist yet. No clips of rendering from actual XBox 2 hardware, just pure unadulterated movie scenes.
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*yawn* Wake me when someone's got real footage.
And for those that don't want to wait for the forum to load, go here: http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_wardevil.h
I love the guy who replies to himself twice to say that he hasn't seen the video yet, but it most assuredly will suck. No matter what. Gauranteed. Thanks for your input.
If only those graphics weren't pre-rendered, and that was all in-game stuff. Hey, you know, maybe that's what it really is, eh? Please? Please?
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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.
Is there ANYTHING in that trailer that says what platform it is coming out on? Looks like another 100% pure speculation passed off as a "scoop" from here.
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Does even the lowest common denomenator twelve year old INTRAAWEB FFOOURUM poster fall for this kind of thing? For all we know, this could be running on a Turbo Duo, not that it makes any difference anyway.
Oh yea, i saw it before in theaters when it was called the chronicles of riddick.
Or does that game look like a big Chronicles of Riddick ripoff, setting-wise?
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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.
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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.
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You don't have to see the demo to know it'll suck. You just have to hear the name, which typically tips you off as to what audiences the developers are going for, to see. This is true in surprisingly many cases.
Perhaps true, but the trailer graphics were no better than the game graphics. In fact the graphics for the cutscenes are worse than the game graphics because of all the popup :)
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Well, I've been looking around at the official site, (Flash-based.. Eugh!) and it seems that they have some screenies taken directly from the in-game level available for you to look at. Not amazingly impressive, but definetely an upgrade to current consoles. Check them out at the official site.
all of the media for Oblivion so far is proof of concept and tech demos, nothing that actually was produced for or that was shown running on Xbox 2 hardware. Not to mention i'm pretty sure it was all concept stuff for the PC anyway.
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Our first look at what Microsoft's next-next generation console can do
Um. No.
He's right; I judge books by their covers all the time. I only read pretty books.
The PS2 is actually a work of hardware art. It stands up very well to the X-Box (especially when you look at games like MGS3 and the Silent Hill series) considering that it's both older hardware and much cheaper to manufacture. There were a lot of blunders with making the hardware a bit overcomplicated, but it's still nothing compared to the Saturn (which had so much crap in it, they had to split the motherboard in half and layer it inside the case). The vector units were very complicated at first, but now that Sony has actually released development tools that help you use them, developers are getting a lot out of them.
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You don't know much about the Sony corporation, do you?
Microsoft is a fucking big-eyed kitten by comparison.
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Can you name some of the things that aren't there? I don't rember anything being overpromised except for maybe the release date being pushed back some.
No, I think the trick to understanding why Slashdot can like the Xbox but hate Windows is in seeing evil as a relative thing, not an absolute thing.
In other words...
Microsoft compared to Linus Torvalds = evil
Microsoft compared to Sony and Nintendo = good (or, at least, less evil)
Blizzard compared to geeks wanting to write free Battlenet servers = evil
Blizzard compared to SOE = good
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I smell vapor ware.. the site was first created in June 2003... The entire trailer was rendered... The website makes no reference to platform. And they appear to be making a film also at the same time. http://digi-guys.com/ is the parent site, and it is even more sketchy. The appear to be a 3d animation firm, that has not done any work, but they seem to have alot of toys and are very well funded judgeing from there gallery and facilities page. I will give them this though, they have some talented modelers and animatators working for them. Verdict not an x-box2 game. All the above info that doesn't state platform, and the fact that according to what was leaked about the next gen x-box how can you be developeing for the x-box2 when the specs are not even hammered down yet
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- Katamari Damacy
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- Dark Cloud
- Robot Alchemic Drive
- ICO
- Frequency
- Chulip
- Okami
I think you can get the point from there. And that's not listing the titles that are an original twist on an old idea, such as Disgae.As for Normal Mapping on a PS2 check ot this link http://ps2dev.org/kb.x?T=1098 which has a doucment all about how to achive normal mapping.
Oh and though I tried I could not find any list of any console games currently out that use Normal Mapping, so if you have a list I would love to see it.
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