SC : Double Agent 1up preview

Awesome ! Ingame on Xbox360 (& highend PC), yeah !
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3150298

The directed moments sound well thought out ; each one customized for story impact.
Check out the screenshot with the dude in half. Bloodyfvckingtastic.

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Is this the actual game or hyped BS?

The real deal. Try to look at the model\'s contours ; often you can still count the polygon edges.
(MGS4 graphics still look a tiny tiny bit better imho)

Ubisoft Shanghai is doing this and it\'s a suped up SC X engine (from CT) built to take advantage of Xbox360 multicore architecture and dualcore PC\'s.

Xbox360 & PC will have online Spies vs Mercs
PS2 & Xbox will have online Spies vs Spies

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I guess the companies we expected to have these kinds of visuals pulled through. Konami and now this.

The top of Sam\'s kneepad : I count 1,2,3 polygon edges on that side. Basically we see a quarter part of the knee surface ; this suggests a fullrounding of about 12, maybe 15, polygon edges. Current gen is usually 8 poly edges for limbs. Also, it\'s the feffects like the lighting and the normal mapping which make stuff look more true to life than it actually is.

[Evi]

I\'m not into 3D modeling, so I wouldn\'t notice technical things like that (although when you point those things out, they become obvious). But that\'s cool.

[Titan]

Hate to admit it but those look good....for a 360 *shifts eyes*

Looks good to me. I see no reason why this cant be real time. Gears of War looks a lot better

^ That\'s a maybe and a matter of style difference (sneaky atmosphere vs bombastic battles).

Last Gears of War ingame demo ran @ 20 frames p/sec with hickups.

This is a true ingame camera point of view shot from GoW.
It doesn\'t look as impressive as those early longshot cam screenshots.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/theNoid/gears101.jpg

An indoor, plain scene? You\'re comparing it to outdoor scenes. That\'s hardly fair.

Anyway, those GoW vids were extremely early builds.

Why ? A GoW indoor pic should be able to be at least on par with that SC DA pic i posted first. That\'s a fair comparison.

^ That\'s a maybe and a matter of style difference (sneaky atmosphere vs bombastic battles).

Last Gears of War ingame demo ran @ 20 frames p/sec with hickups.

This is a true ingame camera point of view shot from GoW.
It doesn\'t look as impressive as those early longshot cam screenshots.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/theNoid/gears101.jpg

Are you refering to the demo shown last year(I think it was at E3?)?

Why ? A GoW indoor pic should be able to be at least on par with that SC DA pic i posted first. That\'s a fair comparison.

Different art direction for both games there buddy.

That was my initial argument vs Unicron ! Stealth atmosphere - Frantic sci fi action.

Anyway, the demo showed with that Cliffy B interview on G4 some time ago, yes. Gameplay looked a bit like Syphon Filter imo. I saw only one type of Locust enemy ; footsoldier type, not the big ones. Framerate was really not good.

But indeed, i wouldn\'t be surprised if GoW eventually will have more impressive graphics. Afterall, it\'s built on a completely new engine whereas SC DA runs on
an evolved version of the SC CT engine.

That was my initial argument vs Unicron ! Stealth atmosphere - Frantic sci fi action.

I am mainly talking about the technical visual aspects rather than the art direction of the game.

Anyway, the demo showed with that Cliffy B interview on G4 some time ago, yes. Gameplay looked a bit like Syphon Filter imo. I saw only one type of Locust enemy ; footsoldier type, not the big ones. Framerate was really not good.

But indeed, i wouldn\'t be surprised if GoW eventually will have more impressive graphics. Afterall, it\'s built on a completely new engine whereas SC DA runs on
an evolved version of the SC CT engine.

How long ago though? I am trying to see if it was the early build footage shown at E3 last year. That was 20fps I remember. But I think they are going to achieve a stable 30fps