wow. just amazing

edit: this game is gonna rock! so excited!!!

Huge difference. It looks gorgeous.

Well done BioWare.

Yeah, Mass Effect on the PC is gonna be gorgeous. Too bad my Rig could only play it on medium settings probably. 9800 GTX with a 2.4 hrz dual core. Id say not.

in the graphics department it hasn't improved that much at all!!!

the only difference is the use of colors and i see the eyes looks a bit better on the ME2 and thats all!! in fact i see mass effect 1 first picture comparison to be more detailed than mass effect 2 except the eyes!

u all need to have faith in your eyes and leave the bias and expectations aside.

damn how can u say there is a huge difference?? are we even looking at the same pictures?

UPDATE

ME1 first pic skin color looks like chinese skin and ME2 looks like arnold in terminator 2 skin but both same quality right?? i mean both arnold and a chinese person can have the same quality of skin but different color RIGHT??

@killer

You are an ultra fanboy, why would you think anybody would take your opinion seriously? You don't even own a 360.

The difference is very noticeable. It is so funny that you guys think you can see a huge difference between Uncharted and Uncharted 2, but you can't see the same difference that exist between Mass Effect 1 and 2. You can see it in the character models, the complexity and detail of the environments, the lighting and we have seen from videos that the pop-in and screen tearing seems to also have been fixed. It is a fairly significant difference.

at least use pics from mass effect 2 that arent photoshoped, where is the aliasing in the images?

A game sequel being compared to the original. It really shows how much effort went into creating the game.

I can understand doing comparisons of the same game on different platforms but when you start comparing different games on different platforms is when it gets ridiculous.

Valid comparisons-
sequels:
forza 2 to forza 3, gears 1 to gears2, uncharted 1 to uncharted 2, mass effect 1 to mass effect 2, assasin creed 1 to assasin creed 2, bioshock 1 to bioshock 2, etc...

Cross platform:
darksiders, devil may cry 3, bayonetta, prototype, ghostbusters, batman AA, modern warfare 1&2, etc

Non valid comparisons:
uncharted-gears, halo-killzone, prototype-infamous, god of war-bayonetta, etc

With regards to the face: This time around, the team at Bioware has definitely improved the art style for character textures. I think looking at the wrinkles between the nose and mouth and around the chin you see more fine striations. While the textures of the face seem to improve overall, the actual polygon count on the characters doesn't seem to haven't increased.

However that being said, I do think Bioware was able to push more polygons this time around, specifically with the pseudo-jungle shot and the palm trees. Now if they could take out all those repeating two V-trees and actually use different trees that might be nice, but I suspect part of the answer to reducing load in this game is to try to creatively reuse the same assets. Was there a jungle planet in the first game? Probably not, but if there was that would be a better comparison.

Finally that cityscape comparison is retarded. When has ANYONE used concept art to do comparisons with in-game shots before? lol.

The effects shots look exactly the same. No difference. I wouldn't be able to tell a ME1 effect from an ME2 one.

If you ask my opinion and I am trying to be fair here, there is an improvement around the 10% threshold. That means it is noticeable, but not significant. For comparison, Uncharted 1 to 2 is closer to 30-40% difference (example: Uncharted 1's drake using 30k polygons, and in uc2 being reported to use 80k... Almost 3 times more polys but only 30% improvement in my eyes? Law of diminishing returns) I suspect most of the improvements with ME2 will lie in the framerates, loadtimes, texture pop-in and screen-tearing which will make for a much better gameplay experience.

I hope they make shotgun effects better i would love for my enemies to explode in gore like in Fallout 3... but it's fine if they dont. My Blood Dragon armor better still be legit when i get this game!

It looks better without a doubt. Not much longer to wait...:)

and im really REALLY not trying to p*ss anyone off. I cba with infantile interweb fights of opinion. But are those screenshots from the game in development, I.E the pc version, or the 360 version? because I cant remember ME1 looking that, well you know.. Plus the textures in ME2, I thought, were a lot, lot better than that. This was being compared graphically to heavy rain...

They said they used the 360 in the article.

Sony fanboys said this. No one else.

The difference between mass effect 1 and 2 is in the dialogue portion. The gameplay is still the same and that's the part they had the most issues in the first one. So I guess they cleaned up the gameplay technical issues and improved the dialogue portion. So the difference is not night and day. 360 is still maxed out this does not disapprove that.

However this is my favorite 360/PC exclusive, and i'm looking forward to playing it on 360.

Mikeslemonade,

The 360 is not maxed out any more than the ps3 is. Naughty Dog said they pushed the ps3 to its max, but that doesn't mean that with newer approaches and optimizations that developers won't be able to get more out of the ps3.

The 360 has actually never really had an engine push it to the limit, so it has a ton of untapped potential.

If you can't see the significant improvements from Mass Effect to Mass Effect 2, you are blind.

Nope, you're the blind one.

In another article Naughty Dog says they can get out more of the PS3. Maxed out can mean a few things. MEaning it's using all SPUs or not? The PS3 right now is not pushing all SPUs at once to the max.

On 360 the Halo 3 engine was made for the 360 and the game looked like crap.

Halo 3 did not look like crap. But we will forgive you since you are a PS3 fanboy and don't have a clue what you are talking about. Now run along little boy.

Resistance Fall of Man 1 which was a PS3 launch game looked better than Halo 3. That's the simple truth.

yeah, im gonna have to disagree with you there, halo 3 DID look like crap.... and only a fanboy would say otherwise.

on topic ME 2 does look better, but its not phenomenally better. its mostly the lighting that makes it look any different, although i will admit that the difference is bigger than with gears 1 and 2

before all you jump on me and call me a fanboy i will have you know that i have this game preordered and already paid off @ gamestop and it is easily my most anticipated game this year just ahead of heavy rain.

Gran Turismo 4 looks bad if you compare it to today's game, and that is what you are doing. Halo 3 looked pretty damn good for when it came out, not to mention how they revolutionized the replay system of the game.

LOL what are you smoking? it looked average at best for 2007... or did you forget that mass effect, bioshock, uncharted, call of duty 4, ratchet and clank ftod, and heavenly sword all came out that year?, and all looked much better than halo 3

at least i can admit it.

that most the improvements are things you cant notice from pics.

Like smoother framerate and more natural, fluid combat.

This game is looking great. I cant wait to continue the story but Im wondering what will happen since I no longer have my ME1 save.