Splinter Cell: Conviction - New engine details and features

AAACE5 - 140 days 8 hours ago

I had no interest in this game until I saw the E3 video, now it is newr the top of my list!

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IdleLeeSiuLung - 140 days 7 hours ago

He is mentioning graphical techniques that were used in the newest Unreal Engine used in GeoW2. I think they are just using Unreal again, but it looks pretty darn good though.

It doesn't look like a traditional Unreal engine game....

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really duh - 140 days 2 hours ago

The lighting engine is custom and its far more advanced than 99% of other lighting systems. I can't wait to see this game in other environments.

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Troll-Killer - 140 days 6 hours ago

Its similar to the Too Human deal...but without the lawsuit. I'm not sure how it works out LEGALLY, but basically Ubisoft Montreal has been tearing UE2 apart, and modifying it to the point where they are able to call it their "own". I'm sure if there was a problem with how they do this, Epic would have busted them on this long ago. In car speak, it'd be kinda like buying a brand new Chevy 350 big block, then boring the crap out of it, swapping out all the guts with racing-quality parts, adding a bunch of Holley bling, etc., and dropping in a Ford T-bucket. When you're done, its really not a "Chevy" engine anymore.

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Calvin_ISA - 139 days 18 hours ago

Chevy doesn't make 350 Big Blocks, all of their 350's are Small Block.. But I see your point. Kudos for knowing something other than video games though. :P

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Kleptic - 140 days 1 hour ago

more so than Uncharted 2 or GoW III?...

not sure what you where watching dude...uncharted 2 kind of unimously took the 'game of E3' and 'best graphics' awards from nearly every site...

I thought Alan Wake was also easily the best looking 360/PC game...the lighting in that was nuts (that flare looked unstoppable)...but whatever...conviction did look good too...

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really duh - 140 days ago

@6 Agreed...

"more so than Uncharted 2 or GoW III?.."

^Not hard to figure he was including those games too. He is right, no doubt about it the lighting and the detail/sharpness in Splinter cell is unmatched. Not sure what videos you've seen.

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/...

http://ps3.ign.com/dor/obje...

Uncharted 2 has hand drawn looking textures that look painted giving it a patchy cartoony look and doesn't have lighting anywhere close to splinter cell. GOW3 is not even worth talking about due to it being not even close to the level of these games.

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Jaces - 139 days 18 hours ago

KZ2 is still top notch when it comes to lighting, although I do admit Conviction does look really good.

And since when has a "cartoony" feel on a game stopped it from having amazing graphics? It's astonishing, you guys find every fault in these games whether it's to boring to the "patchy hand drawn textures".

Last I remember...U2 won E3's best graphics and Overall best game. Just sayin....

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Statix - 136 days 23 hours ago

Splinter Cell looked pretty good, but let's get serious here. It's no match for Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 on a technical level (cartoony or not). Some of the textures looked rather weak, and the polygon counts aren't anything spectacular.

It looks to have somewhat similar detail levels as, say, Assassin's Creed: http://xbox360media.ign.com...

You're going to tell me that screenshot looks even CLOSE to Uncharted 2? I didn't hand-pick the worst screenshot I could find either, that was the first screenshot listed on IGN for Splinter Cell Conviction.

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really duh - 140 days 1 hour ago

They ripped it apart and added their own superior code/sub-engines and improved other 2.5 function beyond Unreal 2.5's original capabilities.

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Soda Popinsky - 139 days 16 hours ago

It uses LEAD, their own proprietary engine.

"We're using our own engine, LEAD, which is an evolution from the engine used in SCCT"

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Milo Garret - 139 days 22 hours ago

If Alan Wake is a trilogy or whatever, expect to finish playing that series sometime during the 2030's.

OT: Don't care, it looks awesome.

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Sean Ryno - 139 days 20 hours ago

Yes, you certainly sound like you know what you're talking about. After all, you played the FIRST Splinter Cell, never mind there have been THREE since then and the story has grown and moved on with big changes.

By the way, Ubisoft explained in detail why they have changed direction with the gameplay of this specific franchise.(they basically want more options to play with) Before, Sam was restricted to a few abilities and options, now those aspects have expanded vastly.

All in all, you don't know what you're talking about. You practically admitted it yourself. Don't critique a developer for adapting and changing things a bit to keep a franchise 'fresh'. Oh, and S.T.F.U. about MGS, we don't need any more fanboi bait around here.

Sorry so harsh.

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Grown Folks Talk - 139 days 7 hours ago

run at full 720P like the majority of the other titles like this.

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Jason 360 - 140 days 1 hour ago

You want this game so bad it hurts.

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LUCKYXS7LEVEN - 139 days 18 hours ago

you want MGS 4 , KZ2, GOW 3, infamous,DF 2 so bad.
see it can go either way.
on topic the game looks cool i'll check it out when the 360 is worth getting,until then back to real life playing my guitar

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theEnemy - 139 days 16 hours ago

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devilhunterx - 139 days 11 hours ago

FLAWLESS VICTORY! FATALITY!

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