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Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage
MojoKid writes It has been a tremendous week for Star Wars fans. First we got to see Han Solo and Chewbacca make an emotional reappearance in the newest Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer (the second official trailer Disney has put out). Now, Electronic Arts is treating us to a visual smorgasbord of cinema-quality footage showing the forthcoming Star Wars Battlefront game. Battlefront will support to up 40 players divided between the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire, all shooting it out and playing with some of the coolest Star Wars vehicles and weapons around. We're talking jetpacks, AT-AT war machines, AT-STs, TIE Fighters, X-wings, and more. Though the trailer allegedly shows actually "game engine footage," it's questionable whether or not it's actual gameplay or just pre-rendered cut scenes from the game engine. Either way, it's still pretty impressive.
it's questionable whether or not it's actual gameplay or just pre-rendered cut scenes from the game engine.
It's not questionable at all. When devs actually use in-game footage, they'll rub it in your face in every way possible. In-engine footage is marketing speak for "We wish we could do something like that, but right now it's running at 2 fps on SLI Titan Xs and all the animations are static".
Since modern Star Wars cinema looks like a video game, this isn't much a stretch.
-Dave
> No content from Eps 1-3.
This is a complaint?
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That being said, it isn't the graphics that make a game good.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Yes... and we've certainly never been misled by "game engine footage" before.
*cough*Killzone*cough*
*cough*Watchdogs*cough*