next gen looks ugly..

Jay Evans

Apologies if anyone here works on this game, but its supposed to be PS3 and has some of the worst screens I've seen in a while.
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/791/791124/imgs_1.html

maybe its a typo or something...

MoP

I think they decided to release screenshots far too early... levels are still in the block-out phase (I hope!).

danr

it does look bloody awful ... but it's clearly very WIP (check out the mapping on the near wall in the 4th shot), probably a test level for AI. Using stock particles too by the looks of it. But that begs the question : WHY release shots? This is hardly likely to get people salivating, which is the whole point of early marketig

PaK

an excuse to make every surface super specular. It'll look like splinter cell when its done :P

-R

michalczyk

They are learning how to use the new technology. The first PS2 games looked similar to PS1. It took some time before PS2 games started utilizing all the new features the hardware could offer. There will be a world of a difference between the first PS3 titels and the ones you'll see in a few years time.

SHEPEIRO

i just think they had to release some images when they wernt ready to (any gueses if it was on publishers demand)

if you watch the trailer, they only show a tiny bit of fast cut realtime at the end, so thyre obviously not too proud.

sinistergfx

Also, IGN tends to compress the shit out of their screenshots, which really destroys all the detail in textures. They did it to our game.

lkraan

Publishing screenshots is usually done by the publisher/marketing people. Sometimes these folks want to show stuff too fast and cannot always judge the quality of the current build compared to what it will look like.

motives

mhm looks like crappola.. I'd hope its a case of too far a distance between marketing and art team or a leak of some kind.

Really cant figure out why they would want to release something that looks like CS 1.6

Marisa

That's pretty Lollerful!!

Lee3dee

looks like very early screens, plus im sure they are learning the new technology.

cholden

I didn't find Fatal Inertia all that hot looking for next gen either
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/749/749967/imgs_1.html
but hey, every console needs a future hover car race game.

sledgy

Looks better than a sack of assholes - barely.

Always seems shady when cinematic shots are included with game shots.

malcolm

Here's the deal, shitty artists and shitty programmers make shitty looking and shitty playing games. Doesn't matter what "gen" they are. And yes those screenshots of Rain look like splinter cell cell phone edition.

michalczyk

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Amen! I couldn't agree more

Erol

It's being done by Japanese developer Artoon. They seem to be a company who knows what they're doing. I'm guessing the publisher (a company that's been around less than a year) was too eager to show something. I've heard too many stories of early shots being released by a publisher to assume the dev/artists are shitty (which sometimes may just be the case).