Video: Gears Of War Will Have Amazing Water
Epic Games did a presentation at GDC on the improvements to the Unreal Engine they've recently made, and the water looks freaking fantastic. If they are indeed putting this into Gears of War 2 then I am eagerly awaiting a chance to play it. Also, the meat cube creeps me out a bit, despite being technically amazing in terms of an effect. Some seriously impressive graphics in this clip.
Unreal Engine 3 Presentation: Over 100 locusts on screen at once [MEGATONik]
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Posted to Video Games, Videos on 22 February 2008
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Any of the other improvements mentioned in the video kick the water physics' butt, seriously. Have you seen water lately?!
I think the occlusion might be one of the biggest improvements, since it's the most visible and believable one - though it's hard to tell with those low-res statics. Anything physics-based won't really impress me until it looks *real* - which probably won't happen for awhile.
What I'm really psyched about tho are the destructible environments. Sure, it's gonna suck in Gears when you just want to pulverise a wall to continue on your path, but there's some kind of indestructible steel mesh preventing you from getting through. Gears is linear after all. But I can totally imagine a game where there are multiple paths to your target leaving you free to actually use corridors and walls or blast through walls. I smell a license for Rhino!
I usually don't get my rocks off from tech demo type things, but this did it for me. I can't wait for November.
Also, Tek Guy, you've just supplied my new favorite quote for the weekend: "Have you seen water lately?!"
I hope they don't ruin GOW2 by making you fight large armies of hundreds of locusts without a plot reason. Otherwise the locust hord in GOW2 is going to feel like a different locust hord to the one in the first game.