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[4K] Gears 5 Engine Upgrades - First Look Trailer Analysis

A great showcase for Unreal Engine, Alex takes a close look through the upgrade changes evident in Gears 5's new E3 trailer - from the focus on seasonal weather effects to improved shaders. It's a stunner, and the trailer is presented here at 4K too.

KingKionic 2155d ago

The coalition definitely bringing top tier visuals and interaction again.

Seems we will be getting a ton of the features that were upgraded for unreal engine 4.

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AngainorG7X2155d ago

Yeah man, it looks beautiful!
I mean look at this!

https://www.gamersyde.com/p...

Prem8tuaProcrastin8a2155d ago

@darkvoyager your eyes are obviously painted on lmao

343_Guilty_Spark2155d ago (Edited 2155d ago )

@DarkVoyager

Looks like 90% of the assets went into Drakes face. Everything else sucks.

DarkVoyager2155d ago (Edited 2155d ago )

@343_Guilty_Spark

“Looks like 90% of the assets went into Drakes face. Everything else sucks.“

Yea everything else sucks. /s

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Sevir2155d ago

You can do close ups... Uncharted 4 still uses high polygon counts and subscatted screen space lighting....

Gears 5 looks great but it still has that plastic look to it's rendering of character models, and that's not a knock on the team but the engine pipeline. Unreal Engine 4 still has that plastic look from it's previous UE3 code base...

Days Gone, which uses UE4 displays a similar look of plasticity to character models.

starchild2154d ago

@Sevir

I dont think you even mean "plasticity", which means "the quality of being easily shaped or molded". I think you mean "plasticky". I think a lot of Unreal engine 3 games last gen had that look on character models, but I don't see that here. Gears 5 character models are clearly using subsurface scattering and they have high poly counts. They look excellent.

doggo842154d ago (Edited 2154d ago )

Lmao, you can say what you what you want about uncharted 4, but visually it's still easily one of the best looking games ever made.

"Uncharted 4 delivers a genuine step advance in real-time rendering on console hardware. The Naughty Dog engine is an efficient, capable engine that produces results that tower above many other current generation titles. There is a clear dedication to excellence here and it has paid off and Uncharted 4 is the best-looking console game we've ever tested."

Straight from Digital Foundry. We all know Naughty Dog has arguably the best tech team in the industry. So disagree all you want, whether you like it or not uncharted 4 is still one of the best looking games even by 2018 standards. Gears 5 no doubt Is a powerhouse too, but don't come here acting like it crushes uncharted 4.

AngainorG7X2154d ago

@DarkVoyager

Nah, i would say that for Gears 4 vs Uncharted 4 (and again only for face detail which Uncharted 4 does look more realistic) because even Gears 4 look kinda better in some environments.

https://youtu.be/VcO1mqxipB...

However Gears 5 looks better on both. But every opinion counts i guess

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oasdada2155d ago

4 looks better.. If anything charachter models look downgraded is 5

https://youtu.be/hkCwiHcgN5...

KingKionic 2155d ago

Digital Foundry literally said the video models in Gears of War 5 have been upgraded and explained how.

You good?

oasdada2155d ago

Kionicwarlord

Do u have eyes! See for ur self

KingKionic 2155d ago

I have eyes which i watched Digital Foundry showing side by side comparisons and noticing immediately the upgrades Digital Foundry showed.

Im not gonna debate over new features added from unreal engine 4.

Just go sit over there in a corner or something.

conanlifts2155d ago

You need to re-watch your own link. Even in that video the models are vastly improved.

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IliasApos2155d ago

Looks improved in every way and i hope the campaign is longer this time

Duke192155d ago

Bright colors!!! (Finally)

Seriously looking great though

Kabaneri2155d ago

Finally? They already ruined the atmosphere and art direction with bright colors since Gears of War 3. Gears is supposed to have a brutal, hopeless vibe not a stroll through Disney World.

PhantomS422155d ago

You do realize you can do a hopeless vibe without the color brown by itself, right?

Prem8tuaProcrastin8a2155d ago (Edited 2155d ago )

Many post apocalyptic, dystopian games with a "hopeless vibe" as you put it have a wider colour palette than the earlier gears games. Lou, among others, immediately springs to mind. you can have a hopeless, brutal game without having a nigh on monochrome colour palette.

starchild2154d ago (Edited 2154d ago )

If they had kept things brown and gray people would be complaining about that. They make it more colorful and people complain about it being too colorful. They just can't win.

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'Epic Didn't Really Know What to Do With the Franchise,' Cliff Bleszinski on the Gears of War Sale

From IGN: "While Gears of War has always been connected to the Xbox brand, the series was created by Epic Games as an exclusive. And though the series eventually found its way to Microsoft's first-party portfolio, lead designer Cliff Bleszinski shared his thoughts on the sale.

IGN sat down with Bleszinski for a new episode of Unfiltered and found out how the game director felt when it was announced that Epic Games would sell the franchise to Microsoft in 2014. This was two years after Bleszinski left Epic Games in 2012."

The3faces557d ago

I remember playing the original Gears of War for the first time and being blown away by the graphics and art style and thinking how is this even possible on the Xbox 360 lol. Great job by Epic!

Stuart5756557d ago

Awesome game, defined the 360 era. Its a shame what happend really.

senorfartcushion557d ago

It’ll eventually be made into a multiplayer only game. Every franchise like this will be. The main goal of the industry is having everything basically like Overwatch 2 or any multiplayer mobile game.

TheEnigma313557d ago

It was the first next gen game of that generation.

SonyStyled557d ago

There was another game that came before that, but incredibly expensive to play in 2006.

Popsicle557d ago

I remember a comment from my girlfriend at the time. “How could the graphics get any better than this.” Was amazing in 2006.

Eidolon557d ago

Played on the 360 after having seen Uncharted 4, and I was still amazed at what they achieved.

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TheEnigma313557d ago

Because it should have ended at GoW3.

rlow1557d ago

In the article he said Phil Spenser was the only person to call him and nobody else. Just found that interesting, because no one at Epic or his ex co-game developers tried to contact him.

LoveSpuds557d ago

Perhaps he actually is as much of a douchebag as he seemed back in the day. Guy had a terrible attitude and always seemed super arrogant.

CorndogBurglar557d ago (Edited 557d ago )

Yeah he did! I remember G4 had him on one of their shows back in the day and he just had this smug look the whole time and was wearing this real tight black shirt and big chain. And he just looked and talked like he thought he was way too cool for the room.

I loved Gears, don't get me wrong. But he was a total douche.

CS7557d ago

Franchises need to constantly and successfully reinvent themselves to keep entries from getting stale.

Look at GOW (PS) and Zelda. Those are examples of franchises that successfully evolve yet keep their core DNA.

That’s what the Gears franchise needs right now.

shinoff2183557d ago

Never much cared for the look of gears. The over used steroid buff look. Ive heard good things about them. I will say i really need to play the gear of war tactics game. I love games like that. I just forget about it.

TheColbertinator557d ago

Gears Tactics is a solid game. Despite being an XCOM clone, it certainly has unique elements from Gears of War running well on the gameplay. I highly recommend it.

CorndogBurglar557d ago

Being an X-Com clone isn't really a bad thing.

shinoff2183556d ago

To date xcom is one of my favorite series. Ive bought each one day one , the rebought when the goty editions come out with all the dlc. I just started it again sunday night. Every other year I run through xcom enemy within and 2 it seems.

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