Mafia II trailer is real-time

Milky Joe - 325 days 7 hours ago

I'm sceptical. That looked like CG. Not because it was TOO good, it just looked that way that CG does.

I wouldn't mind being proved wrong, though.

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Giriath - 325 days 7 hours ago

I thought the animations were the least impressive aspect of the visauls, especially the facial animations and even textures that are easily trumped by Killzone 2's and Yakuza 3's. The environments and lighting is awesome though, especially the city at the end. Incredible if that is truly in-game.

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Tarasque - 325 days 7 hours ago

Lets not be biased troll's here, you are saying killzones 2 textures look better than that......I am at loss for words. Sure killzones atmosphere with lighting and shadows and stuff are just amazing its textures is not. But anywho this games looks promising.

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Statix - 325 days 7 hours ago

I don't think the actual textural resolution being demonstrated is anything extraordinary, beyond the high quality of the art direction. The environmental detail and draw distance is what amazes me the most about this video (if it is indeed actually rendered in realtime), with THAT amount of detail and polish to every nook and cranny of the environment and models, with no clipping, aliasing, or graphical artifacts whatsoever. Suspicious.

To me, the extremely smooth and high fidelity of the motion blur and depth of field effects is what makes me the most skeptical about this being a realtime-rendered trailer. I don't think I've ever seen those effects being used in that kind of quality and precision outside of prerendered CGI. It makes everything look extremely coherent and CG-like, which I still think very possibly it might ultimately be.

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Giriath - 325 days 7 hours ago

I'm not a biased troll, you misunderstood me. I said that I think Killzone 2 and Yakuza 3 have better facial animations and [facial] textures. View the recent IGN Advance Screening of Killzone 2 and you'll see what I mean in the very first cut-scene. And I think every Yakuza 3 trailer out there shows the amazing facial animations.

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Cwalat - 325 days 6 hours ago

i doubt this is purely from using the ingame engine.
i think they use the same tech as Yakuza 3, there are some serious similaritese... both ingame and cutscenes.

but this looks alot better than Yakuza 3 cutscenes...
perhaps it's not only ingame engine in use.

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Ghoul - 325 days 4 hours ago

expect those graphics on highend pcs and a toned down version on ps3 and 360

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Milo Garret - 325 days 4 hours ago

Can't you all put aside your bickering for 5 seconds and appreciate this game for what it is?

The game is fantastic-looking, considering its an open world game I think its even more impressive and the devs resources, effort and skill obviously surpasses that of most other devs.

I'm really looking forward to Mafia II, the first one was pure gold, the second is going to be better.

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Ju - 325 days 3 hours ago

As I understand, it is real time, but in the editor they are using. Means they can change perspective etc. in realtime and manipulate the scene - and possibly record this (scripted) animation right out of the editor. He did not say in-game, though.

Editors usually run on their pimped workstations, max of max so to say. Never know what's in there (usually fast).

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games4fun - 325 days 6 hours ago

again you validated my point the other pics do not look nearly as good as the cutscene

Also they look like a slightly updated gta4 which is nice but not as great as this trailer has made it out to be with its ingame claims.

I will wait till an actual gameplay video comes out.

The pics could arguably still be pc also because many times xbox.ign has posted pc pics and trailers on the 360 section before just because its the same game.

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Bazookajoe_83 - 325 days 3 hours ago

Or is it just me?

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Graphics Whore - 322 days 21 hours ago

Real time doesn't mean in-game lol. Ed-u-cate yourself. Say it with me E-d-u-c-a-t-e.

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