Alan Wake footage!

nabeel

Some more eye-candy goodness!

http://mfile.akamai.com/28603/wmv/in...o/pso_high.wmv
Skip forward to about 17:00. Alternatively, gameklip.

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Intel officially revealed the name of Kentsfield this morning, and branded it Core 2 Quad.

It will be out in November. We were treated to a demo of a Quad machine running Remedy's unreleased follow-up to Max Payne, Alan Wake.

The game looked, frankly, stunning. Remedy has coded the engine to take advantage of quad-core processors - the engine scales as you move from single to dual to quad. We saw some amazing environmental effects, not to mention true next-gen graphics that easily rival anything from Unreal Engine.

Markus Maki, Remedy's rep at the forum, said that Alan Wake had been 18 months in the making so far. The multiple cores are used to stream data in the background in preparation for moves into new areas, and to prepare output for the graphics card to render.

Markus also revealed that one whole core is used for physics calculations, and we saw a hurricane tear up the in-game world in a rather realistic fashion as illustration.

For the true enthusiasts, Intel revealed that this Kentsfield, the Q6700, had been overclocked up to 3.73GHz, a 1GHz clock, with no issues. "Overclocking is allowed here, huh?" mused Otellini.

Alan Wake looked stunning, and it seems that quad-core could soon be ready for gamers. We'll be hearing far more later on in the day, so we'll be sure to let you know.

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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/09...ded_Alan_Wake/

Frankie

theres also another great video and interview of it at http://www.1u...n_wake/

arshlevon

oh man thats nice, i love the folds on his jacket. i want a high res version, all links seem to down except the gameklip one. his run cycle is really stupid tho.

Joseph Silverman

Alan Wake looks to be shaping up really well. The lighting in the flashlight sequence was awesome, and, as Arsh said, the folds on Alan's clothing were great.

nabeel

How about this, arshlevon? Downloadable.

Does anyone else think his running animation is a bit stiff? Another random thought, is this beautiful engine not a little overkill for a 'psychological thriller' game? There are loads of games that could benefit from these kinds of visuals.

HonkyPunch

So wait..
Do you shoot things, or no?

Geezus

Cool stuff, though it seemed to be more of a scripted comercial for Intel than a demo of the game itself.

saturnfive

Pretty impressive, though Jimmies the squrrel is right - they're keeping very quiet about the weapons. That Peter Moore guy has probably the most irritating mid-atlantic accent I've ever heard in my life. They should make him an anouncer voice in UT2k7. Next time some one asks about my PC, I'll tell them "I'm running an Nvidea solution".

Rick Stirling

Their lighting model is superb

hawken

whats with all these "...." in the urls. nothing works

Daz

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That Peter Moore guy has probably the most irritating mid-atlantic accent I've ever heard in my life. They should make him an anouncer voice in UT2k7. Next time some one asks about my PC, I'll tell them "I'm running an Nvidea solution".

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er, eh? Mid-atlantic is a term for an accent that is neither predominantly British, nor American, but has features from both. Classic examples would be Cary Grant and Kathleen Hepburn. I have no idea who you are talking about in this instance.
Weapons? As said, this really isn't about the game. This is a demonstration of an incredible rendering engine given to promote Intel, nothing more. There is no game out there that features a realtime lighting model this impressive. It's truly groundbreaking If you understand what you're looking at. Nothing would appear to be baked.

nabeel

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whats with all these "...." in the urls. nothing works

[/ QUOTE ]Sorry about that, here's my link properly, I'm not sure what the 1Up article was.