That damage modeling is lame.

A bomb triggers a lame effects-hidden model swap. It's the oldest technique in the book. There's no physics-based stuff like red faction has that is involved, no persistent debris, just a persistent ravaged "post-explosion" model.

Not very interesting at all.

The only thing cool about this game will be the overly tedious attention to detail which, honestly, will make most FPS vets not even want to touch this title with a 10-foot pole.

It's a game, people....if we want a simulator, we'll play america's army, and that's free.

Fantastic video! It's crazy to think that women wasnt real!

This is amazing!!

I'm not seeing the impressive stuff they're raving about here. They have 1 or 2 different modles rendered for the game, great. Most games do that stuff. The graphics look alright, but not much better than the game they'e cmparing themself to. I don't see this as being a stand out game or stand out tech, myself. The whole thing seemed stiff too.

I didnt like it how the site turned it into a flamebeit with bringing DVD9 and Blu-Ray in. What does this awesome software have to do anything with these things?

the only way to have damage modelingdonecorrectly is if the location to the milimeter has been eiher pre worked out or calculated behind the scenes on a model given the exact specifications as human flesh and bone
with range weapon ammo type and movment thwron into the mix its a hefty set of calculations

ie.. upper arm 2 inches above elbow 9 mil pistol 50 yards arm crossed over chest speed walking would give a different result and final location then if itwas done.

just on location ..
i feel we are a ways off from true damage modeling
and that video with the girl was on here before same one

Whilst the technology demonstration is great, and this level of facial animation is very welcome to games, the article is a bit misleading.

The demo clearly shows a real video plate - the bit thats been 'matted over' is the facial features, and they clearly demonstrate this at the end of the piece. To suggest, as they do in this article, that it's all CG is to misunderstand what they are seeing.

The facial expressions are excellently captured and mapping them into the real video frame in this way is an excellent demonstration of how excellent the facial capture software is. Lets just not pretend the entire scene is CG...

Getting emotional acting onto 3d figures has always been difficult, but if we want proper emotional involvement its an absolute must, and this tech is starting to bring it all together. I was very impressed by the results that were achieved by the characters in Heavenly Sword, which had astonishing facial expressions, but it looks like this will soon be topped and I want to see much more! :)

i have to see real gameplay of flash point. i dont think the game is going to look like the way they are saying it is. maybe its going to play the way it is but most of the time this kind of games get dumbed down for one reason or the other. hope i didnt offend anybody its just that i been there done that kind of thing. i as much as others hope it is as good as shown.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau