Linger In Shadows: Video Available

onAXIS: "Here it is on YouTube,from Breakpoint 2008. Enjoy!"

[pwnsause]

I can honestly say it looks like what you see when you run 3d mark, yea its that amazing.

[poopsack]

Thank you very much gambare

Oops reply is for a lower comment

[FamilyGuy]

It was going pretty slow for me (70kbps) but i copied the link and used it in FlashGet and now im downloading the vid at about 500Kbps

http://img99.imageshack.us/...

bottom right

[daous]

The fact that Santa Monica Studio helped in the creation of it.

You know, the same Sony studio responsible for GOD OF WAR...

Perhaps this is showing off their current PS3 engine for God of War 3 so far?

[Lord Anubis]

since santa monica did the demo some of that tech is bound to go in God of War and since santa monica is closely related to Incognito they will too benefit.

[GutZ31]

Sorry to say it, but not impressed.

[sonarus]

WTF. lol I have to be honest after all that hype it still doesn't look better than Crysis to me. I would put it about on the same level as killzone maybe a lil bit under.
Tech demo's really don't impress me much maybe when i actually see something cool instead of some trailer for "underdog game" i can get excited. The fact that it is coming from santa monica also gets me excited maybe that is the GOW3 engine who knows. Can't wait to see "gameplay footage" but like i said tech demo's don't impress me

Don't get me wrong it doesn't look bad but No wow's came out of me watching that.

[SUP3R]

You won't get any "wow's" until you know what it is and how it's being incorporated into a game.
This is just an example of what is capable in real-time and most likely the engine Santa Monica is using.
I will say this video looks on par with the quality of the CGI video of Killzone from E3 back in 05 or 06(I can't remember) except this isn't CGI.

[sonarus]

lol i would say this looks on par with MGS4 real time footage. Though i didn't see it in hi def. Still looks rough.
But yea you are right i won't be saying wow till i see it utilized properly. I try not to get psyched for tech demo's. It is not on par with KZ2 cgi though. That had a lot more action going on e.t.c. KZ2 CGI had a lot more to show this one looks like a blend between the matrix and underdog

[Sevir04]

while not crysis Good, it does however, boast some impressive procedural rendering, it's just a tad uglier in a good way than KZ2. which has me hyped because this seemed more like a tech of whats going into, or what Their engine is capable of and if this is from Santa Monica studious then Yes this is their God of war 3 engine which is amazing to say the least. great stuff, Sony's Devs are seriously making the PS3 look amazing. cant wait to see what they show at E3 this year.

[SUP3R]

sonarus, of course you would see the Killzone CGI trailer as being more impressive because you didn't have to think outside of the box as you do with this video.
If you would take a second to actually realize the tech that is actually happening in the video instead of focusing on what is going on with the "OMGZ FLYING DOGXZ, KITTIE KATZ, WTF???" you would realize how masterfully amazing this entire video is.
Of course the majority of people, as I've seen through the comments on this article, have no sort of art and tech direction so they'll have to wait til' they see Kratos or some human character before it's understood for what it is.

[Maddens Raiders]

but now that I have.... Damn it looks like a --- no check that -- it looks better than a movie trailer. The backgrounds are fully realized and absolutely beautifully drawn. There's no way this is a game is it?

[Watkins]

1400 kbit/sec .. not too bad of an FTP

[gameraxis]

go take ur xbox to get serviced will ya, if u wern't interested you wouldn't have come in to look.

On Topic;

that dog got RUINED!!! lol

[killax3563]

Nice video but I don't think it was the game/video that BBC reporter was talking about. Just my opinion. It was nice but I wasn't left 'speechless'.

[The Killer]

1: this is not in HD video, if it was it would look much better than this.

2: i think they were trying to show what their new engine can do, we all so those buildings and constructions and what happened when the metal robot hit them and how the object were reacting to and and fall, or how this robot was squeezing him self to get out of his hole, or how different reactions was made by the black flying thing of the different objects.

3: maybe also how was the dog reacting when his body was turning to a stone, also when he saw the black thing he tried to hurry to that statue.

from what i see only sony studios r the ones pushing to new limits and i think this year and next we will see some amazing looking games!!

in 2009 i am looking forward to GOW3 and ICO next game!! am sure they will set new bars to what to achieve in games both graphics,physics,gameplay and concept!!

[lukewind]

You do all realize that this is a tech demo? Even given that it doesn't look revolutionary...not by a long shot. Whatever this game will be looks interesting, but the graphics seriously failed to achieve this "OMG" reaction all the Sony Fanboys are having right now, I guess the lack of games with good visuals has made them dumb!

[PimplePopperMD]

I dont know. I dont see anything special here. I see a vid that looks like it was recorded running at 14-27fps. Are there any excellent use of lights in this vid? It looks good but real gameplay lookin like that(better hopefully) is a ways off.

[JsonHenry]

Looks good!! ... but what the hell was going on screen?! I don't understand it. What was the point they were trying to make? It looks like they were using the Half Life 2 engine with the way the buildings look. (except they had only shades of green, grey, and black as their total color palette)

[Neo-Delta]

Wierd, the videos taken off Youtube and all the downloads don't work. Sony must be doing their level best to hide this game/video.

[J@D]

Not necessary ^__^

Here is the link for the Video.. It's quite a video 387.5MB to download ^__^

LINK:
http://scene.org/file.php?i...

[poopsack]

noooo! (continues downloading)

[poopsack]

Really, hm I have 156 mb... do I have the wrong video!!??

[J@D]

I don't know Knavex... the one that u own most a compression version of the video. Theone on this link:

http://scene.org/file.php?i...

It hold around 390MB of space. Maybe it's quite superior on quality... So i don't know buddy' 4 real.

[poopsack]

the user removed it.

[gambare]

http://micksam7.com/blog/in...

there you go

[jwatt]

Thanks for the vid man! Honestly with the massive landscape heavy uses of physics, this is the kind of stuff I expect to come from the cell processor.

[N4M3L355]

I don't know if you uploaded the video or if you just found the link, but you deserve a bubble. I giveth bubbles!

[xhi4]

none of my players can play it including divx and quicktime?

it says it needs some codec but doesnt say which one.

can anyone help?

[J@D]

The PS3 can play as far I know.... ^__^

Give a try and I know it go to work 4 sure.

[xhi4]

thanx a lot mate, ill go and try it

EDIT: AHHHHH didnt work :'(

any help please?

or someone upload it to youtube or better yet as a usermovie for gametrailers.com then it wont get taken down......if possible.

[rCrysis]

i have a codec pack so I don't know which codec is playing it..

What i do know, is that the video is pretty impressive. Santa Monica Studios anyone?

[Vicophine]

Doesn't work on PS3? Bah, I got to use my file converter now -.-

[Obama]

hmm try using the VLC player. It should be able to play it.

[xhi4]

just use the VLC player like the other guy said, just type it in google and download it.

Its a bit of a strange video, the dark mist was like lost's haha

i don't know what to think of it, its a really out there video. I can't see how a game would come out of that, but then again who knows!

[ISay]

http://micksam7.com/blog/in...

[tudors]

that usually plays all.

[TheWickedOne]

Thats the first thing that came to mind. The black smoke or nano tech gone awry from Lost. The video had some really nice visual. The cat looked great, the dog flying not so much.

Looks to me like just a showcase piece, not a upcoming game.

neat though.

[Vicophine]

Downloading...I will not even try running it on this PC, as this PC = suxxorz. USB to PS3 ftw.

[rmatott]

@3

--download VLC media player

[WelshGunner]

Yeh i've just downloaded it now and yes it does look pretty impressive, early days yet though. All the people's names are russina for some reason ?

I'll try and upload it on youtube if i can.

[Rice]

for some reason i cant download it, i click on the link but it nothing happens..

[Vicophine]

What I did was right click on the download link and "Save Target As" on my USB.

[TitanUp]

if anyone gets this downloaded try to put it on youtube and give us the link on here. im also using a pc that sucks right now. im at a friends house

[TheExecutive]

i cant downloaad on this comp! somebody post it again!

[rmatott]

im at 81% ill upload to youtube soon

[TheExecutive]

thank you! post the link here!

[TheHater]

thanks a lot dude. I am unable to download it. thanks again

[Corrupt]

It casts petrify!

The video is crazy, so much random stuff. (A panda sitting on the side of a building, lol) Looks pretty good though, I hope more comes of this.

The video starts with 'Santa Monica Studio Production'. Actual game confirmed?

[Qbanboi]

I'm downloading it right now. 1MB/Sec in like 4 minutes, i may see it. I hope i can play it.

[The Closing]

Mucho bubbles to whoever tubez it first.

[Sangria]

I'll upload it on GameTrailers for those who can't download / watch the video properly. Give me 20-30 minutes :)

[Jinxstar]

Damn I leave fir a few hours to get laid and miss this.... At ;east it was something good i missed it for or I woulda been pissed =P

[ps3 is my champion]

for some reason, it reminds me of those coins games I used to play with the big heavy coin type thing you smacked down on other coins? I can't even remember what that is called anymore, I dont think they were called coins.

[Jinxstar]

They were Pogs. The story behind those is they used to have milk bottle tops in hawaii that when you took them off they were collectable and thats how people traded them. by using "Slammers" or whatever your regional term was for the big honkin ones that flipped the paper circles "Pogs or milk bottle tops" over. =D

Game on bro!

[ps3 is my champion]

thanks for jump starting my memory!! I loved that game.

[Jinxstar]

You too bud.

[fenderputty]

I remember having a slammer that was made out of solid brass. It was at least 1/4 of an inch thick. It used to split people pogs in half. I didn't use it much though. Wasn't very fair. I loved that game.

Did it get banned from your schools too? I remember the huge stink parents made cause the game was teaching their children how to gamble. Loosing pogs was causing fights etc etc. Twas a sad day for me and the reason pogs had such a quick death in the town I lived in.

[WelshGunner]

All I got To say is wow, i managed to download it and yes it is a bit random and i got no sound at the end :(

[Ortiz83]

does it really look that good...

[Qbanboi]

It's not a "OMG THIS LOOKS SOOOO GOOD, THAT I FEEL THE NEED OF KILLING MYSELF" kinda good. But i do look impresive. I really loved the music.

[BilI Gates]

Downloaded the 720p vid and I can't stop thinking about how amazing it looks. Great music and absolutely stunning graphics.

- Your friendly neighborhood Bill

[TheExecutive]

post it!

[PS3ROCKS]

59%

[nirun]

oooh im excited, go go gadget internet

[gEnKiE]

dam...i can't get the link to work... :(

[sehnsucht]

What's the hype for this? Best looking game ever? I played crysis yesterday...looks better. Played uncharted...looks better. UT3 is better. What's the commotion over this video?

[jwatt]

Well I wish I could see it!

[nirun]

how many games have a panda? point proven

[xhi4]

to agree with you there!

[EZCheez]

I didn't see anything special at all, although I did like the music. Damn, you guys had me thinking it was going to be amazing. It really wasn't that graphically impressive, and I had no idea what the hell was going on. A flying dog? WTF?

[N4M3L355]

I agree. The game, or tech demo, looks good but it's not groundbreaking or jaw-dropping in the visual department. I have a lot of respect for the BBC when it comes to delivering real news. As for the journalist that was floored by the demo...perhaps they don't game that much, or maybe he saw something we haven't (I doubt it considering the footage got pulled).

[cellypower]

I don't think this is what the bbc reporter saw!

[sledgey]

Some games out now might look better now, but not even Crysis or Uncharted has this much physics and rendering running simultaneously. That is what is remarkable about this video. The interactivity between 3d objects, (along with the enhanced collision detection), enhanced lighting and expansive environments is truly a technological showcase for PS3 and the Cell. If this is a game....WOW.

[Tetsuryu]

-00:22

[rexor0717]

I think its around killzone 2. I don't know why people don't like colors. Not everything is bleak. But hey, it looks better than most things out there now. I don't think that consoles will get to Crysis levels any time soon. Im sure the PS3 will do it eventually get there, but not quite yet. KZ2 could do something nice at E3 though!

[Qbanboi]

Ok, i hate when people over hype things. This (whatever it's) looks really good, but it's not a crysis, killzone2, killer.

[BilI Gates]

http://scene.org/file.php?i...

Here's the link. Right click and save the file titled plastic_lingerinshadows etc etc. You won't regret it.

Art style > Realism.

Crysis looks boring in comparison to games like this. You people that want games to look uber realistic, just go outside into the real world.

- Your friendly neighborhood Bill

[sehnsucht]

I like the art style...I'm just commenting on the hype...There aren't many technically impressive things in this video. I wish I hadn't read the article before seeing the video, they gave it impossible hype (at least on a technical visual level) to live up to. Still very nice, I want to know more.

[gdguide]

Only thing really amazing about what I saw here was art direction, ideas for the world, and how the heck will they make this into a game? It's like visuals with a "Median" Photoshop filter applied. I don't know why, but I almost feel like there is some direction here from Team ICO or something.

Would love to see this turn into a game some how. The world looks so cool. I want to know more. :)

[Gorgon]

This is not a game...

[actas123]

This is probably a new engine presentation or something. But, it looks impressive. You gotta take into account the bad quality of the video, i mean at the beginning u could barely read santa monica and sony productions.

[criticalzero]

Can anyone please add this on GT or youtube...I'm dying to watch it.....Since the last 15min...The download is only at 13%

[jwatt]

Bubbles for anybody who can get the video.

[Jinxstar]

I tried. WMV don't work for me... It'll be posted like a million more times on youtube soon i think...

[sehnsucht]

Follow the link to the article then click the first "Download". It should take you to a ~400mb file at Scene.org

Just right click at the top> save as.

[TheExecutive]

http://micksam7.com/blog/in...

per that dude on the first page...

[cellypower]

Wow! I really like the art style.

[criticalzero]

I sure fuking hope so

[gambare]

If that video is on real time, it's even better than crysis, the tech demo of gears of wars 2 does not compare with this demo, really, to do something like that M$ should need to release an Xbox720 to compete with something like that

[criticalzero]

Is it really that good????....Is it just CG..or is it actual game play like the Gears of War tech demo???

[Gorgon]

The demos in the demoscene are ALWAYS in-engine...thats the whole point.

[jwatt]

Graphically it wasn't better than gears but it has very cool physics and a massive landscape with very tall buildings. I don't know what game they could make from it but it looked cool.

[onewinedangel]

becase that cat look better than the whole gears of war or crysis it self ,the textures in 1080p were so realistic .i personaly think that if this can be accomplished then the ffXII and FFXIII versus trailer are in game .plz be more objective and watch it in hd so u can see how good it is .and dont compare it to gears at least with COD4 or uncharted if u are blind because it is a crysis killer
P.S. gears graphsx sucks just play UT3 on ps3 with the action cam ,it looks 2 times better than gears

[Rageanitus]

not it aint that but the graphics do look quite impressive with big worlds. I wonder how it will chug when you have multiple units on screen that have High polygon count with many surface textures.

Crysis still looks better. , Made me relook at the rage trailer for some reason, yup pc still has the upper hand.

[TheExecutive]

what was that? its impressive but wth was that?

[Gorgon]

A tech demo.

[EZCheez]

I didn't really think it was THAT impressive. Cool, but nowhere near as cool as it was hyped to be. Of course, nothing ever is.

[Jdash24]

Whoever can get the video posted on youtube first, or provides another link where i can download will get my undying love and gratitude

ps. If it gets posted on youtube. use Mediaconverter.org to save it to your hard drive before it gets removed

[BilI Gates]

See the vid here. http://www.gametrailers.com...

[Jdash24]

that video was crazy, still not sure what the hell it was, but it was quite impressive

[TruthBTold]

Is there something wrong with the video that there are problems with trying to watch it? thanks for the link though

[Shaka2K6]

Good stuff though looks massive, reminds me of SoTC or those 1st pics of WKC with the huge turtle walking around with a city on his back.

i dont know what this is but im already inlove and i hope its a game for PS3.

[JVIDICAN]

if its a game its a ps3 exclusive
its published by sony and made by santa monica studios(first party)

[Kulupoo]

ya i have the feeling... this video just raise bunch of questions... good graphic, need some AA polishing tho~

[Panthers]

This seems just like a tech demo more than anything else. It shows emphasis on destruction and animal movement.

[Iamback]

Thats what it is, tech demo running on some new engine. I read comment on GameTrailers "This game goes on my must buy list"! Really my head hurts when i read ludicrous crap like that. How stupid and ignorant you have to be to write something like that? I already see 3 years from now that same stupid and ignorant "people" will say "Do you remember Linger In Shadows demo? What happened to that "game"? O Sony lied again". Brain damaged people.
It is not a game, it is tech demo to show destruction of environment, for example whatever that robot(matrix anyone?) touched it got affected, scrateched, destroyed. Also that city is HUGE, maybe that is what they trying to show us. Other than that video is nothing amazing. It looks great but nothing "WOW" there. Well music in video is awesome that is for sure, so if someone knows names of songs let me know.

[AllroundGamer]

hmmm the demo wasn't so phenomenal like the reporters described it, pure hype, and why they compared it to MGS4 or Crysis is beyond me...

[Bonsai1214]

was it even confirmed that this was the demo shown to the bbc guys, or did the internets make that up?

[AllroundGamer]

i really don't care anymore if this was the demo or not, there are too many fake and overhyped stories nowadays... all i know from the feeling of this presentation video is that it was only a demo from demoscene how the people know it, this has nothing to do with some game, i was really shocked when i saw the Santa Monica logo at the beginning.

[Bonsai1214]

yeah. sony santa monica is based in CA, so why show it off to bbc in england. makes no sense. though if this was the said video, its a little underwhelming.

[SUP3R]

LOL
So because Santa Monica is a US based company it means they're not suppose to share information outside of the US???

[thehitman]

Amazing.. If a game could be made out of this then gaming as we know it will change forever...

Link to vid for those still having trouble
http://micksam7.com/blog/in...

Also this is 1000% not what the bbc reporter seen because based on his discription it was an actual game that he had seen, which is definetly not this.

[TruthBTold]

Bubbles to you. Finaly I got to watch the video. I cant say I was blown away but the idea looks interesting. Dont really know what it is. The only thing I could think or imagine when I saw the video was that the buildings would be a great idea for Assasins Creed 2 in the present or future climbing those buildings. Sorry if it sounds dumb guys but I think it would be cool. Not much else to imagine with a video that did so many different things at once... like many said..tech demo.

[criticalzero]

I thought that video wasn't so fascinating either..I mean talk about Hype!!.....Gears of War 2 tech demo was much better....The art direction was o.k....not great....Crysis, killzone 2, Gears of War 2 (tech ) and even MGS4 beats it hands down

[AllroundGamer]

If you have an average/not too old PC, try these two demos - http://www.scene.org/file.p... and http://www.scene.org/file.p... . I found them much better than Linger in Shadows, also the artistic style and logic are on a higher level.

[Ortiz83]

honestly, graphically, it doesn't look better than uncharted to me. I don't see the wow factor that you guys are seeing. I mean, its good like uncharted, but no where better than it nor killzone...

[actas123]

The contributer should update the link w/ the video just posted on gametrailers.

[PopEmUp]

Happy easter Sunday Man Utd 3 - 0 Liverpool (shameful Meserano what a looser
back to topic this is looking great

[solar]

i downloaded the full 400 mb demo....eh. it was ok. not what i expected.

[The Lazy One]

It looks more like a large scale physics engine than anything else. The graphical quality wasn't terribly impressive, and imo Force Unleashed looks better from a physics standpoint. I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to bring to the table exactly. Maybe stuff made of more than one substance or things changing from substance to substance? (stone to metal, organic to stone, etc)

It definately wasn't as good looking as Crysis on any front.

[The Lazy One]

what did you disagree with? The fact that I was honest?

[SUP3R]

Those aren't facts, that's your opinion.

[The Lazy One]

So what's your point?

[SUP3R]

This could well possibly be the God of War 3 engine.
I'm only drawing a wild guess due to the Santa Monica title screen, the greek architecture and the stone effects. We'll have to wait til' E3 to see what this is really all about.
It looks amazing for what it is.
Please keep in mind this is all real-time.

[nirun]

the physics are spectacular, the graphics are =\

they seem to have got down the realistic fluidity of propulsion that we are used to seeing in movie cgi

[kingOVsticks]

okay was it just me for the people who saw it did you notice
(i think thats the name) falco from never ending story towards the middle of it 0.o and whats with the flying basset hound

[xplosneer]

Santa Monica studio, you never fail to impress.

[The Closing]

Certainly no crysis, killzone2, or mgs4. Don't quite see how this is a game either. My guess is it's just a teaser of what's in store for the next project to build hype just like the Heavy Rain tech demo, which I wasn't terribly impressed with either.

Although I have to admit giant Beagles ftw!

[Genki]

Even though it's not a game(presumably), I wonder if this will become the next Killzone 2, from an internet buzz standpoint.

If this is legit, that engine better land in a bunch of people's laps QUICKLY.

Sony is just driving me nuts though. Some of their most ambitious projects, this, Killzone 2, The Getaway, GoW3, Team Ico, are all under such tight wraps, but everyone on "teh internetz" is just wild about them(myself included).

I'm trying hard not to get sucked into the hype machine yet again, but I admit it's tough with things like Killzone, LBP, FF13, GT5, and Resistance popping up everywhere lately.

I'm trying to stay away from that "limitless PS3 potential" bandwagon, but it does seem like there's a bit of latent power under the hood, and I'm eagerly anticipating what's in store for the future.

[criticalzero]

I don't know what this games is showing off either...I mean..Heavy rain showed all that voice acting and all; 8 days showed evolutionary game play; but what does this signify?? this had no great graphics. No great Physics.No voice acting. No great lighting effects....I mean what's the point??

[SUP3R]

HA!
You're obviously a novice about graphic technology.
So we'll just leave it at that.
You have the nerve to say it had no great physics lol hilarious.

[smokey_vols]

I'm going to post this on the official PS forum and see if my post gets removed. We will see how much Sony wants this secret.

[Alcaponeyou]

wonder what it really is

[cmrbe]

like part opening credit mixed with a tech demo of a truly unique game that comes once a gen like SOTC was last gen. The black smoke must be the shadow and the animal spirits must have something to do with the gameplay base some time in the future.It might be a fusion of SOTC and FF type of game. Very interesting indeed. This is what i love about Sony. They get out these sort of games that really peaks my curiosity and anticipation and freshens up the gaming scene rather than the usual games we expect like FPS/Action adventure etc. Anyone knows what Afrika is all about?. Santa Monica FTW

[cellypower]

I agree

[Mikelarry]

WTF was that about flying dog turned to stone okk black mist that looks like something out of flow. nice music but reallly wat in blazes is the video about

[Lew_Ijgee]

It is extremely captivating. The story told in this short seven minute video is enough to make me want for more. You can see from looking at the video that the ruined city has been host for a great battle between the powerful and mysterious creatures.

The power of the Black Mist creature seems to only be challenged by the inorganic Medusa Head machine. They are obvious enemies almost as if the Medusa Head was sent to hunt the Black Mist. The Lynx, who lies waiting, seems to have anticipated everything that was about to take place, and the great goddess statue seems to be the object of the whole conflict.

I really hope this becomes more than just a demo.

[Mikelarry]

you all that man your good. hey if more videos about this come out could you please explain them cuz they too weird for me to understand

[The Closing]

Or you could be over thinking this way too much.

[cmrbe]

Santa Monica title on it in the beginning. So i am pretty sure this will be a game. As i said earlier. The begining is very much like an opening credit to a game and part demo/trailer mixed in this preview. There is a girl and a boy pic in the opening scene. My guess if they might be the leading characters. This might actually be the SOTC for this gen. I don't know what this is all about but i already feel for the poor flying dog. BTW great observation and linking of the inoganic machine and Greek mythology. This game is now one of those games that interest me everytime is see its name like Afrika. Not to hate on the x360 but there are really no games like this coming for the x360 that peaks my curiosity and anticipation for something new.

[Dino]

I'm so starved for a new game on my PS3 that more and more videos fail to impress. I want games, not foreign film tech demos. april 29th seems soooo far away.

[Mikelarry]

i am in the same boat as you. but what is happening april 29th?

[The Closing]

Grand Theft Walrus 4, April 29th is the big wanna be video game gangsta event for wanna be video game g's.

[Sangria]

I guess i'm very late but here it is, that video uploaded on GameTrailers for those who can't download or watch the video properly:
http://www.gametrailers.com...
I agree with some comments. Technically it's not really impressing but it's more in a sense of art, just like abstract or surrealism. But i don't think that was that game that the guy from BBC (i think) saw in London Studio saying "Wow, freaking amazing".

I feel it more like an esotericism as In Memoriam.

[The Closing]

It's pretty arcane in view. I definitely get the eulogy vibe you speak of too..although I obviously don't think that's quite it.

Thanks for the vid! As they say, "better late than never." I'll see to it you still get a bubble.

[Dino]

wasn't working and had been taken down off of youtube.

[Figboy]

but technically very beautiful.

i really enjoyed the art design and the music.

i agree that it wasn't mind-bogglingly jaw-dropping, but it was certainly amazing to see what people can do, in real time, no less, with modern technology, specifically, the Playstation 3.

remember, this is the console that haters were convinced couldn't run Rainbow Six Vegas properly 8 short months ago, and yet it's producing visuals like this, Uncharted, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo, etc, in real time.

haters, complain all you want, but that doesn't stop the PS3 from continuing to be an impressive piece of machinery.

*EDIT - i just rewatched it in HD, and i was wrong before, this is indeed incredible, and i can see why people who've seen it got so pumped about it.

watching the streamed version, even in such good quality, is nothing compared to watching it in HD.

[Obama]

lol @ the flying dog. It got turned into a statue. :(

[smokey_vols]

I posted this in the official Playstation forums and my thread was deleted. Obviously this is something Sony doesn't want us seeing, ohh well too late lol.

[Sangria]

On the internets, nothing stay secret very long. I guess every video found will be deleted but it's clearly too late, now there is anywhere a bunch of copies of that vid, and in HD. XD

[smokey_vols]

and obviously more than a mere demo that some people believe or Sony wouldn't be trying to get rid of all these videos and talk about it.

[BlackIceJoe]

Linger in Shadows really looks great and I hope this will become a real game over just staying as a tech demo.

[Stagerman]

downloading: 2% haha

[cmrbe]

http://micksam7.com/blog/in...

[ApocalypseShadow]

what chu doin in dat video......hahahah.....

very interesting if something comes of it.

but i smell misdirection from sony.

hmmmmm...........

ico........has shadows......

shadow of the collosus......shadows......gia nt creatures with big eyes...

if it's not team ico,it's another team from sony going for that feel.

who cares if it'd not out of this world impressive in detail.ico and sotc weren't super detailed.but the games were "out of this world."

i'd buy another game made in that vein.it's not like nintendo and microsoft will do it.

megaton..............

[timmyp53]

had a fallout type of feel to it.

[TheExecutive]

the art direction reminded me of MGS4

[poopsack]

It's Pokemon on the PS3!!!!!!

Edit: Can someone bubble me I reached my commenting limit for this post... Im a nice guy. :)

[kingOVsticks]

^_^

in topic this is a unique game that will turn out to be something huge

[kunark]

alsome vid the cat looked so real if that is from the ps3 its truly amazing vid just speechless

[bootsielon]

The huge ass city with classical greek scupltures, animals and technology... it looks beautiful, and detailed enough for the scope of the environment. Great animation and physics. I just hope this is a game, and an innovative one on the gameplay side to complement the seemingly huge amount of technological innovation in this video.

[meepmoopmeep]

insane. i hope it's a game cause it looks crazy.

[grimygunz]

IM gunna upload this thing to my PS3 to get the best resolution I can to see this. I just watched it on a 15.4 inch laptop and was shocked at how good the textures were. now let me see it at 720p and 1080i for acurate results.

[Figboy]

i used PS3 Video, and converted it to a MP4, and copied it to my PS3.

then i watched it on my 40" 720p set.

it was indeed jawdropping.

i had only watched the streaming one before, on my computer monitor, and it pales in comparison to seeing it in HD, on a nice HD set.

it's truly beautiful.

on my PC monitor, i couldn't see the subtle "oil paint" effect they had throughout the video.

the cat specifically, really stands out on an HD set. you can't appreciate the subtley of the art design on a SD source.

i was impressed before, but blown away once i saw it in HD.

[Doctor Strange]

Late to the party but this was really awesome. It had a lot of stuff going on this is something I can see a finished product looking like.

Very bizarre but loved it, hope to hear more about it.

[arakouftaian]

and crysis is good but, killzone2 is " amazing "

[thewhoopimen]

For an in game engine tech demo. I thought it was very impressive.

One of the wow factors for me was the dog's texture transformation from fur to stone. That is something I have yet to be seen done real time.

Equally impressive though to a lesser extent is the dog breaking up from the tentacles and the resulting collision from the pieces with the tentacles and with each other. Yes i've seen stuff break before, but never the parts interacting with others and then heading off in its own trajectory. The fact that the animation doesn't just end with a settled state is pretty impressive for a console demo.

Guys when you see a demo like this, just remember that textures don't need to be refined. Its not a shipping product and doesn't have to look like a final product yet. So dont' compare it with polished games. Look at the interactions and number of real time objects displayed and how they interact.

The gist of it is that this world unlike uncharted, gears, or even crysis. It is COMPLETELY interact-able (short of the clouds it seems) and represents a very big leap for console capability.

[cmrbe]

notice the small nuts and bolts that were all moving independently?. This game/demo sure looks like it going to have great animation and physics. The Atmosphere and music is great as well.

[TheIneffableBob]

Those two points you mentioned are fairly basic graphical effects.
The first is a change in shaders and the second is a change in model to physics objects.

[Figboy]

is that while my fiance was watching this video, she said that it reminded her of Mirror Mask.

my question is; what's so wrong about gaming technology being able to invoke the feeling of film?

i mean, isn't that what games like Gears of War, Mass Effect, Bioshock, and many other notable X Box 360 games get praised for, and yet, if a Playstation 3 game does the same (ie, Heavenly Sword, Uncharted), they get reamed?

personally, i love the "video games as art/film" debate.

i think that certain video games transcend mere interactive entertainment, and captivate the player in a way that a lot of books, films, and works of art do (insert Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, etc in here at any time).

this Linger in Shadows is a very interesting piece of work.

game or not, it's very beautiful, and it also invokes a sense of wonder and curiosity in the viewer.

i *WANT to know more about this world. i want to explore it's nooks and crannies and see what kind of mysteries i unearth.

*THAT, is what makes it excellent potential for a video game. the possibility of actually being able to explore such a surreal place. the world is almost dreamlike.

the use of their "oil painting" effect, the slight softness of the atmosphere. the strangeness of events and images/characters.

personally, it sparks my imagination, and i'd love for it to become more than just a tech demo.

i mean, Sony paid these people to make this for a reason.

did you watch the video in HD? i'm curious, because i was "ho hum" about it until i watched it on my HDTV. seeing it in High Def most certainly opened up my appreciation for the piece.

even if this were an "interactive screensaver" of sorts, for me to download onto my PS3 and manipulate in real time, i'd be pleased. i'd prefer a game, of course, but it's more than nothing.

why criticize so harshly, when it could have been much worse: we could have gotten *NOTHING to pore over in the first place.

*EDIT - this was meant as a reply to Ludwig, below, but for some reason, it put me here. odd...

[thewhoopimen]

I see where you are coming from with that. I'm no game programmer but don't you think it is a little bit more complicated than simply swapping one shader for another? For one thing it wasn't just a simple, one moment the dog is fur, the next moment the dog is stone. There was a gradual change. 2ndly as I mentioned before, if the effect is so simple as a quick swap, why hasn't it been done in-game before?

Your second point is spot on as well, as I mentioned it is less impressive. However, as I said as well, the ability to have all the real-time interactions without any framerate slowdown and calculations are impressive.

[The Lazy One]

It still hasn't been done in a game. That doesn't mean it's not possible. The dog changing isn't that complex a thing to do (purely material wise). 3d transformations in actual model and texture/material have been around for a LONG time.

The more interesting thing than it actually changing is if they figured out a way to change the physical properties with it. Like the robot medusa thing at the end had the tips of 2 arms as stone, and the rest was metal. Getting the physical properties to change realistically is much much harder than changing the look of the thing. Especially when you have an engine that actually breaks parts of things.

[MisfitSmurf]

from the looks of that creature it looks like in can be from a team ico project

[TheIneffableBob]

Ah, so I was correct in guessing that it was a scene demo.
The demoscene puts out some really impressive stuff.

[Gorgon]

Yep. I would like to see the demoscene comming hard again into the front. Its a good time for that with consoles now taking the place of the Commodore computers, Atari ST, etc. They're static in hardware, they have the following those old computers had....

A renaissance in the demoscene would be welcome indeed.

[SlyGuy]

Ok having watched the vid all i have to say is...

"W..........T........F!! !!!!????????"

oh and nice physics. lol.

[redninja]

http://www.gametrailers.com...

[Ludwig]

Oh, kmon people, it's not really that impressive as a tech-demo .. It's basically a ripoff from FR-041.

Video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=...

Demo
http://www.scene.org/file.p...

Note: FR-041 is only 180KB in SIZE! O_______o

[Figboy]

not in tone, not in art design, not in theme. in no way, shape, or form are the two related.

that's not to say the video you linked to wasn't impressive, i thought i was, especially considering it's file size, but, in all honesty, *WHO is going to see that and say, "wow, that looks pretty good, how big is the file size?" whereas, someone who watches this "Linger" video (especially the HD version, on a nice HDTV), will say, "Holy cow, that looks *AMAZING!"

without prior knowledge of the file size from the video you posted, it's a ho hum tech demo with "so so" visuals.

"Linger in Shadows" looks amazing, file size being large or small doesn't matter. you don't need prior knowledge of the piece to be impressed by it.

better luck next time, though.

[Ludwig]

If you want visuals/art .. go watch a movie.. (MirrorMask/Matrix and The City of the Lost Children are my recomendations.) .. but this is TECHNOLOGY .. technologically speaking, Linger in Shadows is not as impressive as FR-041 by no means ..

[thewhoopimen]

Yes!! Fr-041 was procedurally rendered!! Hence it's 177kb size! I think this Linger in the Shadows is a procedurally rendered tech demo done in the vein of Fr-041. This is probably a demonstration of that exact concept on a console using an in-game engine! Which would be really really amazing!

[techie]

You all know this isn't a game and never will be a game, don't you? Plastic do demo's for hardware to show its capabilities.

[Anything but Cute]

Looks like someone's crazy dream with no logic. But this DOESN'T look like the concept of a real AAA game.

I've already seen too much Sony weird sh*t like Afrika and it disappears forever.

Sony should focus on releasing great games instead of wasting time on weird tech demos.

So, I'm a PS3 fan but not too impress with that nonsense. That didn't look like the concept for any real game so I don't care. Maybe it makes a good screen saver.

[socomnick]

Im with you m8 this video was not really impressive the Unreal Engine 3 looks better imo. The dog was cool though I got a basset hound myself lol. The graphics on this "tech demo" look slightly worse than mgs 4.

[Alcaponeyou]

o wait, it doesn't matter, i almost forgot,
fanboy goggles.

[Anything but Cute]

I'm not impressed sorry.
Looks like someone's crazy dream with no logic. But this DOESN'T look like the concept of a real AAA game.

I've already seen too much Sony weird sh*t like Afrika and it disappears forever.

Sony should focus on releasing great games instead of wasting time on weird tech demos.

So, I'm a PS3 fan but not too impress with that nonsense. That didn't look like the concept for any real game so I don't care. Maybe it makes a good screen saver.

[techie]

This is Plastic, not Sony. It's not a concept for a game. It's a tech demo.

[Ri0tSquad]

in so many different ways.

[Richdad]

This article shows that people love games and not console see their are a lot of 360 guys defending this game and there where a lot of PS guys defending LO when most of the 360 users where saying like turnbased nah.

Also I was surprised to see that kind reaction from @Anythingbutcute.

[Big Jim]

This is a tech demo. This is not footage of any game in any stage of development in any way shape or form. It is a tech demo only and was never meant to be seen by anyone but industry professionals.

[gixxxer]

I dunno what to think im not an expert on tech demo's but im not really amazed by it. Hopefully GoW3 will look better than this. The music was catching thou.

[lukewind]

All the Sony fanboys will cream in their pants over this but anyone who also owns a 360 knows that these graphics are not any kind of step above what is out now, plus its a tech demo which means they are using the system to generate small areas of graphics. When the scale things out to encompass the entire game it will look great no doubt, but nothing special....Sony fanboys still think Killzone 2 looks mind blowing so right their you know that they have no idea what they talk about. Watching all the dumb fanboys bicker over graphics is so fun to watch. I love games and all the systems are producing great games....thats all I care about!

[tudors]

The only thing I did like was the use of the Cell for the physics but other than that it all looks a bit bland and boring, Crysis uses Volumetric clouds, I can't really tell from this video but the clouds do not appear to be volumetric.

[leon76]

I just hope this will be another Spectacular Game exclusive for the PS3, a memorable game that will shut up some mouths.......

[Tryst]

I dont think that this is the video that the BBC reporter was commenting on.

Simply because at the beginning of this video it said Santa Monica Studios, which is in the US. The BBC reporter stated that the game he had seen was being developed in the London, UK.

[ben806]

i will be impressed when i see these sorts of graphics running realtime in game. till then im not going to be impressed

[YaKiiuZa]

The links did not work !

[ScottEFresh]

WTF was that!

[SL1M DADDY]

If anything, the wide use of physics and largely drawn backdrops are awesome and the small hairs blowing in the wind on the dog made for a very cool sight to see. It may just be a tech demo but it is exactly what I expected the Cell to be capable of once the devs got online with it.

[she00win99]

looks good , but it didn't surpass cry2 engine, it looks the same as MGS 4 though, the same greenish look.

[jazy]

Not sure what this is...the colour palette looks a bit dull though...close to MGS4...abstract designs don't make gameplay....hope sony gets it.

[rmatott]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=...

[Harry190]

looks nice

[SoulKillah]

Why the f*ck did they have to kill the dog???!?!!!

[Ashta]

Yes, Plastic makes hardware tech demos for people but I have a few questions to ask:

If it isn't at least involving Sony somewhat then why does it have the SCE and Santa Monica Studio tags at the beginning?

Even though Plastic does tech demos who is to say that this movie wasn't inspirired by an actual project that a Sony developer is working on?

It could be a Plastic production showcasing a gameworld that hasn't been revealed yet. Perhaps a new IP or something to be unveiled at E3?

Hell, by the artwork of the city landscape it looks like it could range from a Team Ico game to the new Ninja Theory project which has the same type of concept art for it's landscapes.

So, even though this is a "tech demo" it doesn't mean it wont ever be a game.

[Maldread]

It looks great to me, if a bit random as they show a lot of different stuff and hopping between them. Still, the art style was very nice, it seemed to have a great physics engine, and the graphics looked very good to me.

What was actually going on in the trailer (flying dog ?), i don`t know. But any demo that put`s the Fog Monster from Lost and the Robots from the Matrix against each other in a fight, desevers a game i think. It would have been cool to see how such a game could be played too.

[andron]

Where tech and creativity melds to show the creators skills.

It was impressive but I dont see any game connections?

[Gorgon]

Thats exactely what it is, my friend.
Unfortunately most people on these forums weren't even born at the time the demoscene was in full motion, so it's not surprising to see the sort of BS comments we see here.

This stuff is about real-time tech demosntrations, just as it is about music and visual artistry. The demoscene demos melds both technical achievement and ART in the form of music and visuals.

Too bad 99% of the creepers in N4G simply don't get it.

[longduckdong]

too wierd for my tastes

[Reibooi]

There are certainly parts of the vid that are amazing but there are also a bunch of parts that look like crap and after all that hype about this vid i wasn't impressed. If they could get the whole thing to look as good as the best scenes then it would be awesome.

[btkadams]

a lot of the setting and textures looked like killzone2. cool vid, i dont know how they could turn that into a game though... or is that just a rumor? the part where all the garbage cans are flying through the air was really cool.

[Blademask]

Volumetric clouds that are morphing and making shapes anyoen!?!?!

TRANSLUCENCY SHADERS And liquid dynamics anyone!?!??!

Its like everyone here is blind.

[lukewind]

You are the blind one my friend. TECH DEMMOOOOOOOOOOO! MORON!!!!!! Since when are volumetric clouds amazing? They ca be done fairly easy and they now take up very little GPU power to produce.

You really need to get a life>

[Blademask]

Did I say anything about this being a Game? Volumetric clouds are amazing because there is NO game on the 360 that has them. Especially when you have the morphing into other shapes "With Very little gpu power" Is just plain ignorant, and shows that you have no clue what you are talking about. I can say "Ray tracing is simple with little gpu power." What is LITTLE quantified as?

I'm glad that even a dolt like you can see that a fur shader and translucency is a huge step in gaming.

[GUNS N SWORDS]

the FVCK was that?

real time huh......i think they just took me back to 05, no no no no it's all real time every body said that.

i spent top dollar buying the newest parts for my pc, and they show me this?

WOW i really did not know that a console that has 512 mbs of ram could do ALL THAT.

to tell you the truth MGS4, HS, RC, and Uncharted is real time, this movie of fvcked up hallucinations is not.....it could be, but scan through the vid, find hard evidence, the ps3 can only use half of its memory for graphics.

i work with graphics it's my hobby and my job.

[GUNS N SWORDS]

tell you what it's real time all of it.

my pc does 4 T flops, ps3 does 2, i have 8 gigs of memory ps3 has 512 of mbs, I have two 8600 running in SLI, ps3 has one 7800, ps3 has cell 3.20 GHZ, i have 4 4.4 quad cores.

my pc should be doing all that but i guess it's to slow.....LOL

[Richdad]

Wow your PC looks cool I will be soon buying a beast like that hope everyone like Crytek pushes limits of PC games.

[Sheddi]

The power of CELL!

[Gish]

So THAT is the thing causing all these crane collapses!

[CZert]

rrrrubish....

[StuporUser]

The graphics are very nice, but without the rest of a real game running side by side with the renderer it's not all that impressive. If you dedicate all the system resources to rendering a scripted, non interactive world of course you can make a pretty real time demo. Look at all the demos that come out from nVidia and ATi for new hardware, they always look better than current games because they are basically just graphics and no brains. Get that running as a playable game with complex AI, collision detection, and maybe even some audio effects and I'd be impressed.

[bigjclassic]

Good tech demo, everything ran smooth from the transformations, to the destructible enviroments. The animal renders were super impressive. Good stuff. I cant see why people on this board are so super critical, for a video game console that WAS SUPER IMPRESSIVE.

Lets leave PC outta this, as far as consoles go this was unbelievable.

[thehitman]

IDK how any1 can say this is not amazing maybe to you ppl who cant even afford a hd tv/monitor then yea it wont look amazing to you but running it on my 32in samsung 720p/1080i tv it looks pretty amazing. I have yet to see ANY graphic visual that looks close to that of the animals. I mean the fur omg I thought if i touched my tv id be able to pull the dog to safety.

Edit: @Batty tech demos show what hardware can do. Game developers develop and show what they can do. Im sure any game developer can go and make a crysis game with the resources. Not every company has that opportunity to max out hardware potential its just not economically possible.

Just rewatched the vid for a second time and im more impressed I didnt notice the interactable enviroment as much as I did the first time around. Everything the machine or mist touched moved in some way in a realistic way. Also the lightning affect at the end shows extremely good lighting affect. And i got to restress the animals lol the fur omg it moved in the wind the little bristles no game can touch that out right now.

[Scerick]

I completely agree. The little nuances this game has makes it feel so realistic and fluid while looking amazing and artistic while doing it.

[The Lazy One]

Things like the fur moving could just be an affected particle system, which isn't that hard or demanding at all. Seemless animation shouldn't be judged either (read: animation that comes more from animator skill than engine).

You should pay attention to render quality, lighting quality, texture quality, number of objects on scene, physical interactions, and physical changes (like the dog or medusa thing at the end).

I can tell a lot of people here aren't huge into tech demos if you think that stuff is really something incredible. I think a lot of you are getting caught up in the fact that it's an artistic tech demo, where most are just tech demos and leave the art for the games.

Of course, I'm going to get disagrees cuz I said something pretty wasn't technically impressive.

[iknownuthing]

I agree with bobat. No doubt it's nice, but there's nothing to get excited about because this may simply be a scripted real time graphics system. Just because it looks like the world is destructible, and just because the characters appear to interact doesn't mean there are any physics or AI systems controlling any of it. It may be no different than a cartoon, a CG movie or non-interactive video sequence from any other game, in which case it's just a bunch of pre-baked animations and effects run in a scripted order rather than by a simulation engine. If this is the case there's tons of processing power left over to supplement the graphics with, like 6 out of 7 cores worth.

Now, if this level of complexity and graphically quality can be demoed in a real time, interactive simulation where someone is actually playing it would be very impressive.

Of course it possible for this to be an NIS from a real game's graphics engine. During an NIS it's common to shut down other systems so that more cores can be allocated to the renderer to do more fancy stuff. Many games crank up the visual fidelity during in-engine movies, they can do this because there's less work to be done in the various other systems at that time, so more processor time is free for the graphics. Obviously they'd like to keep that level of graphical quality going even during gameplay if they could. It's also generally not feasible to spend tons of money developing a super duper renderer that you can only afford (computationally) to crank up during the NIS videos.

We'll just have to wait an see.

[marcindpol]

It is made completely by Polish programers:)

good to be Polish sometimes, loool

Dobra robota Plastic!

PS. i do not think so it will turn to be a game.

[Matsuiichi]

Well, I must say that there's still something I can't get over. Everything was good, except for the cat. That cat looked terrible. Otherwise, I can say that this was an amazing tech demo, and Santa Monica definitely knows what they're doing with the PS3.

Now, if only it were able to turn some fanboy heads to go multiplat, then I'd be satisfied. But we all know the chance of that happening. XD

[moses]

Graphically, it's not much. What it DOES show off is the neat physics stuff the cell can pull off.

[TwissT]

Interesting... it seems like it will be the "abstract art" of the video game industry. Poor dog he got turned into a statue and then crushed.

[diablo103]

it was ok but it def was not better than crysis graphics

[Avto]

The thing is this cats fur is so well done and MS said it can't be done without DirectX10 this how much power Cell B.E has got in its SPE

[moses]

Does the PS3 even use a version of DX? I thought it used openGL.

[Richdad]

PS3 and 360 currently both use D3D (lower level API than Directx) but slowly the concept is changing instead of using DX or Open GL Devs are starting to unleash the power of hardware directly for example Bioshock and Forza 2 do most of Physics work through processor and R&C (PS3) does all the physics through processor.

[iknownuthing]

PS3 does not use D3D it uses OpenGL. D3D (Direct3D) is part of DirectX and is owned by Microsoft.

There's really not much that can't be done without a specific graphics language or GPU hardware on a regular CPU (it's all just math and data). It's just a matter of whether or not you can do the math and move that data fast enough to generate the desired effect in real time.

[SnakeShady]

it's only a TECH DEMO.

[Cure]

trailer sucked a$$ - nothing cool about it however whatever engine that this demo is running off seems to be pretty amazing. Can wait 2 get more details of this.

[Pika-pie]

Looks like a cross between Lost, Half Life 2 & Nintendogz

[Richdad]

Funiest comment WOW, possible GOW3 engine and when you compare GOW3 with Nintendogz and remember the dog swimming in air what do you get 5 minutes of nonstop laughter.

[BigBaehr]

WTF? wont be needing that acid trip later

[DragonKnight]

At least we know that this "game" will have a lot of artistry in it and be stunning, but what the hell is it about?

[solar]

those eyes on the squid monster kinda looked like colossus eyes...

[DFresh]

I like it a lot.
Even though this You Tube video was shown in SD I can only imagine what it will look like in full 1080P HD.
Santa Monica has a great and unique way of delivering new style and new quality games.
Flow and Flower are the just the very beginning of what Santa Monica can do with games.

[sandip787]

ok it wasnt graphically amazing, and wasnt the game that BBC reporter saw called tears of blood?
what was amazing is the concept, if it turns out to be a game.
only on the PS3 ;D