To be honest, I disagree with the author regarding the art style. Though I'd definitely agree that Crysis 2 is clearly the graphically better game on a technical level, I think Killzone 3 has better art direction.
Fuck Kinect and Microsoft.
Though I disagree with the overly gritty depiction of Jo, I think I speak for every sane gamer on the face of the planet when I say we all would have much rather had this and the also cancelled Kameo 2 instead of this Kinect Sports garbage.
You seem to be comparing multiplayer, which in Crysis' case was taken from its Beta form and being created by a different development team than the single player team. I'm comparing single player, and in that case Crysis 2 is a much more open ended game than Killzone and i'd say looks better by judging from all of the videos that have been popping online as of lately.
I guess it's just an aesthetic choice on the development team. Killzone uses those filters to give the game a distinct look. Just like Halo uses a ton of HDR and high contrast colors to give it the look it has.
It doesn't really mean that one game is graphically better than another on a technical level though. If you really want to compare which is graphically superior you need to look at how many polygons its pushing, lighting, aliasing, physics, like the things I m...
I'd say it's the best looking console FPS. I think the reason a lot of people say KZ3 is because the game relies on a lot of filters to give it the look that it has. But any game can throw some post-processing filter on top of it to make it look fancier.
Crysis definitely has it beat when it comes to geometry. Characters and environments are a lot less blocky. KZ2 and 3 both have horrrrible aliasing problems, which Crysis does not. Both games have great animation, but...
First of all, the point of this video isn't to advertise a particular game or its art style, it's to demo technology. Secondly, the engine doesn't determine a game's art style. You can make a cartoony looking game with UE3 if you wanted to you moron.
And a game being realistic and ultra gritty has nothing to do with a game looking good or not. Some of the best looking games this generation have been on the less realistic side: Kameo, Viva Pinata, Little Big Pl...
Harmonix you are so dumb, FO REAL
ha but truth be told, this shit's hilarious. If I still had rock band I'd be downloading this immediately.
That shit looks ugly. Looking at it you probably just think it's some overly-violent generic shooter.
DAY ONE!
There's been a severe lack of mech games this gen. With the new steel battalion looking like a shell of its former self, this thing looks like an awesome alternative. It's also unbelievable the visual quality given it's just by a small indie team.
Too bad Rare is so dick-whipped to Microsoft these days we aren't going to see any of those sequels -_-
God dammit this isn't the official release. Why do articles like this continue to be published? Working at gamestop, any time a big release is coming out the company puts their own estimated date in the computer. Right now we have so-called "release dates" for tons of games that have no definite release. Bioshock Infinite, Arkham City, etc.
If the game isn't street dated, which it isn't since there is no SD by the title's name, ITS NOT THE RELEASE DA...
Come out with actually decent games for it, drop the price, and then I'll get one.
I stayed here refreshing the home page for this? One of the worst X events in years. What happened to the X events where microsoft actually showed new trailers and announced worthwhile stuff, as it not crap like getting Halo Waypoint on my phone.
So the game automatically is fucking terrible in all aspects, and negates any good quality it has, all because you can't hit anyone online? What a joke.
TP's art style wasn't what i was referring to. When I said lack of innovation I meant in terms of how the game played. It was just a very by-the-numbers, safe, Zelda game.
I still like Twilight Princess (since it is still a Zelda game after all), but the whole time I played the game I had that "been there, done that" feeling.
Loved the Wind Waker. Definitely one of my favorite Zelda games. Happy to say I was one of the supporters of its controversial art style pre-launch.
Much better than the formulaic non-innovating, Ocarina-lite follow-up called Twilight Princes
Agreed, they've actually been putting out a ton of great stuff, but they've just been commercial failures due to Microsoft's piss poor marketing.
Conker, PDZ (save for it's cringe-inducing story), Kameo, Viva Pinata have all been great games, especially the later of which.
Microsoft are the activision of first party developers. Fuck you Microsoft for killing what was left of your most talented studio.
I really hope everyone just quits and reorganizes into another studio like Ensemble did.
If my avatar wasn't any indication, Rare is by far my favorite development team. What the hell has Microsoft done? They could easily let any second rate dev team create Kinect Sports.
Why not loosen the chokehold on this amazingly gifted development house and let them make the games they want instead of running some type of fucking dictatorial rule over them making their staff leave.
There's no reason to have a new generation of consoles at least for another 2 years, other than for selfish reasons.
Just from a technology standpoint, developers keep finding ways to squeeze more and more power out of these systems. Just look at the new lionhead tech demo that popped up the other day. Just look at any 1st party Sony games coming out. The systems still have more juice left to them that have yet to be tapped.
Secondly, Microsoft and Sony b...