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Smears of War? 720p Gears 2 screens

Digital Dreamer writes: "The eagerly awaited Gears of War 2 footage was released last night to the delight of fans and gamers. What we saw was some great looking action with far more happening on screen than Gears 1. I was floored when I saw the down sampled video. Upon further inspection of the 720p feed though, it appears that Epic isn't rendering on screen what we might think.

It appears that Epic has applied a strong smear filter to the engine. This smear effect is also similar to the median blur in Photoshop. Why is it there? Is it there for effect? Perhaps. But does it make the game look better? Maybe if you're using lower res textures and lower poly models. View the images and decide for yourself."
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Some catches of Gears of War 2 - 64.233.179.104 | By: Dareaver1
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Published: 56 days 8 hours ago | Article | Xbox 360
 
 

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Shadow Flare - 56 days 8 hours ago
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yep this is gonna be the start of those 1000X zoom on GOW2 vs KZ2 articles. I actually quite liked the gameplay of the GOW2 video, looked quite intense and vast. But out the 2 i'd still rather play Killzone 2. Not to mention, the graphics are better on Killzone 2 (no way!) yeah it really is. It makes me wonder though, since GOW2 looks graphically like GOW1, has the 360 maxed out? Im gonna stretch my legs now, just like the ps3 is capable of doing, and the 360 no longer seems to be able to
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sonarus - 56 days 8 hours ago
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lol i can't wait for the quaz guy to come out and give us his theories. I sort of noticed it too, saw some screen that almost looked like concept art. I don't know sh1t about stuff like this so i won't even try to state an opinion but it almost looks like a filter to add color:|

Bottom line thogh game still looks awesome
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pharmd - 56 days 8 hours ago
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dude....
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SeNiLe911 - 56 days 7 hours ago
1.3 - Funny, those look nothing like these screenshots...
http://www.pro-gamers.fr/in...
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kevoncox - 56 days 7 hours ago
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Or perharps the engine has been maxed out. Why do people always use exclusive games as proof of a game that the 360 cannot do. When you do that it's easy to say...the 360 cannot do Racthet and Clank...guess what? We'll never know. Can't I say the ps3 can't do Chromehounds. Prove me wrong?

The fact that we have seen some amazing looking multi plat games proves to me that the 360 can do Killzone. Anyone looking at these games with any common sense could see that. I remember when it was said the 360 can't do Hevenly sword...Guess what, the heavenly sword developers are now multiplat.... The 360 can't do DMC...guess what...it went multiplat. The only games Sony fanboys have left to hang their heads on are games that will never go multi plat...which are sony designed games... While killzone looks great is it really a huge leap over COD4? Think about for a second without biais and you will see that there have never been a generation where 1 consoles simply could not do a game(except Snes vs. Genesis and the Snes FX chips and mode 7 scrolling) I know on this baisis a$$ site...i will get a crap load of disagrees but that just shows the insecurities in your heart...After all Resistance was suppose to be a game not possible on the 360. Clearly, that was a materpeice of 2st person gaming that could not be touched...Heck even Resident Evil 2 came to the N64 and that game was 2 cds large and fit on 1 64mb Cartegid....
Flame Away!!!!!!!!
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gonzopia - 56 days 6 hours ago
1.5 - @1.3
Yup... it's the PS3 army on this site that wants to find reasons to dismiss GeOW2. I'm a PS3 owner, not a 360 owner, but I'm big enough to admit that GeOW2 looks hot and will likely be a great game, and I'd love to own it on the PS3.

Luckily I'll get to own it on the PC. Thats the nice part about 360 "exclusives". :)

I'm not sure what's happened to these images, but I'd be very, very surprised if that was indicative of the gameplay.
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fenderputty - 56 days 5 hours ago
1.6 - while killzone looks great is it really a huge leap over COD4?
Simply put ... yes.

I don't know what's with the OP's screens though. Those don't look like the game I saw a preview of. Those look worse the GeOW1. Gears 2 looks great.
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Bloodwar - 56 days 5 hours ago
1.7 - Who'da thunk that the Sony Punks were going to have a field day with this yet again. Look at 1.0 and look no further.
All I have to say is if you kids can take an exclusive game that isn't out yet on your prized superior PS3 and compare it to a one of the exclusive titles not yet out on the 360 then I can do the same. Gonna have to pull one of our big guns. Yeah, we know that supposedly the PS3 gets this kewl 60 player shooter called Resistance 2.

Are you all forgetting that all of the games that have been coming out on both platforms have been reviewing better on the 360? Oh yeah, you all are using this excuse that the Xbox 360 version was developed for first. Yeah... lets laugh at Halo 3 because it was in 640p but then Grand Theft Auto IV comes out and its in 630p on the PS3. Oh my, the PS3 version of GTA IV isn't in true High Def but the Xbox 360 version was? Wow, the Sony gods must be pissed at you all for all your flamboyent PS3 fanboyism, because apparently the "Freeze" issue in GTA IV was pretty rampant on the PS3. It wasn't the case on the Xbox 360. "Pathetic Little Fools" says the Sony God. LOL (This one, Rockstar developed on the two consoles at the same time. If anything it was developed on a PC first and then transferred to the two consoles but who's keeping score?) Yet, for some strange reason, the PS3 gets the lower resolution on its version of the game.

I'll go with SeNiLe911's post and have to say that Gears of War 2 is looking pretty damn good. BUBBLES for you, man for linking those awsome Gears of War 2 pics. And anyone who knows Gears of War, knows those pics are in-game playable footagefor GeoW 2. And looking at the playable footage of Gears of War 2 and Killzone 2 on YOUTUBE, that both games are looking on par with each other. They are two different games, two different artistic styles but both still some kick ass games no matter how you little kids try to spin it.

I've calmed down enough to talk some sense, now. Lets get to the issue I originally intented to bring up. Yep, Resistance 2, you get your 60 player game. But on the 360, we get Huxley http://www.huxleygame.com/ Here is a screenshot for Xbox 360's 120 person shooter. http://screenshots.teamxbox... . To this date and to my knowledge, the project hasn't yet been canned. For now unless something changes, our game is going to support 120 person battles. And the servers hold 5,000 people so in addition to the 120 person battles, we are going to be able to set up our own guilds and have guild to guild battles. And the roleplaying aspect in the game is going to make the experience seem that much more alive. (for those that wish to roleplay that is)

And we will be able to play with Windows players. Cross platform playing is a cool concept and maybe hasn't done too well yet for there isn't a lot of content out there yet. We know about Shadowrun that can be played by Xbox 360 players against the PC crowd and of course peeps are going to talk smack about that one. It was a first try. I'm sure that they will get it right with Huxley. Its gonna be cool playing my 360 against and with my brother who doesn't own consoles because he prefers PCs.

But I just had to point out that yes, you all have some cool and perhaps better things going for the PS3, but yep, we have some cool and better things obviously going for the Xbox 360. Better reviews and bigger games? Who'da thunk?
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Mc187 - 56 days 2 hours ago
1.8 - @ above
Huxley is vaporware.
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Bloodwar - 56 days 1 hour ago
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Doesn't mean that it isn't coming out. They are in their closed beta now. Vaporware means something that is announced far in advance that may or may not come out. If they are in beta now, you can suspect that they may come out. I guess Haze is vaporware.
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Bloodwar - 56 days 1 hour ago
1.10 - And lookie lookie
The Sony trolls have won again. I've lost yet another bubble. You don't see Sony trolls having their bubbles removed, but when someone speaks positively about the 360, they get their bubbles removed. What a sad bunch of hypocrites. I guess this is my last comment for this. Its sad. I don't come here trying attempting to remove their bubbles but sadly they feel that I do not have a voice. I had a pretty good argument, but apparently they didn't feel as though I did. Sad sad site, this is. =)

If it about speaking truthfully, I was.. and I was pointing out the good the 360 has.. that its vaporware, as one member of this site wishes to call it, should be able to support 120 players and 5,000 people per server. The Sony camp doesn't want to believe that it may be coming out.. that the 360 can support 120 player battles.

Here is your vaporware. Straight from Huxley's website.

PC Huxley Release Date
PC - Current release date is set for Q4 of 2008

Xbox 360 Huxley Release Date
Xbox 360 - The Xbox 360 version of Huxley is currently set to follow approximately 6 months after the PC version launch

I guess I will be proven soon enough that Huxley didn't remain in its vaporware state. And the Sony camp is going to remove another bubble of mine for saying so. lol

Wow, this hurt me.. I'm melting... I guess I get to spend time playing GTA IV while they get to spend time here wishing they could. hehe
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SOLDADO206 - 56 days ago
1.11 - gears1 blew away kz1
so why are sony boys hyping up kz2 so much.cuz they think it looks better? what about the original games they build off of gears1 and kill zone1.kz1 wasnt shiiii.t but gears was the shiiii.t
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vickers500 - 55 days 23 hours ago
1.12 - Smears of War, lol, thats a new word for the fanboys
Seriously though, Gears of War was epic (at least to me), and is the ONLY reason I own a 360, and its a d@mn good reason at that. As long as Gears 2 has at least UT3 updated graphics, frankly, I don't give a sh*t, because its the gameplay that matters, and I f*ckin enjoyed the hell out of the online multiplayer. All gears needs to do to impress me is improve the story over the last one, and give it the halo treatment (change nothing except add new vechicles, weapons, etc.) and I am sold on this game.

And fanboys, stop acting like you don't care about this game, you know you want it :)
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Spinitus - 55 days 19 hours ago
1.13 - @soldado206
u dummy. ur comparing a last gen game to a current gen game.are u serious,wow i can tell how much in denial u are, and hate to admit that Killzone 2 looks wayyyyyyyyyyy better than Gears 2.
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wow4u - 55 days 18 hours ago
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See something the matter?

Have a look:

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

Second, open one of those pics and look at the properties.

984 x 554 jpg.

Exactly how do we arrive at that?
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SOLDADO206 - 55 days 16 hours ago
1.16 - @spinapus
f u boy.I know kz1 dont compare to any next gen games .and thats exactly what im talkin about a good game is a good game. and probably have a good sequel but what was kz1 nothin what was gears 1 filthy.and by the way boy I know a few of last gen games that can compete with this gen games ,kz1 isnt one of them.unproven period
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Condoleezza Rice - 56 days 8 hours ago
2 - whoa
erm,click on the 720p screen 2.Not a good look
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Shadow Flare - 56 days 8 hours ago
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lol. It's almost Paint-by-numbers Of War
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d3l33t - 56 days 6 hours ago
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I dont think those are actual screens. The high res screens look really nice. As a PS3 owner, im quite jealous. The game looks fabulous. As of 'maxed out' engine comments, i dont understand what MORE people are looking for? Maybe they want the horde in their living room.
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Maddens Raiders - 56 days 1 hour ago
2.3 - There's no need to say hateful things -
the screens alone cause enough pain on their own.

KILLZONE II definitely has a leg up in all honesty, but I'm sure 360 owners will be happy with this offering, with just a few more months to go.
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Dareaver1 - 56 days 1 hour ago
2.4 - i wonder if you all will eat your words, when this turns out to be fake....?
but here's an appetizer to your lunch. like stated above, here are some real screen grabs. And for all those, "oh i noticed during the video"; you are all full of it. my god, can't you honestly say the game looks awesome.

You are all part of what's ruining gaming. Freakin liars;
http://www.pro-gamers.fr/in...

look at all those pics, and tell me what you noticed. Full of it, and some of you, even though we shared differences of opinion, i respected because you seemed to be grounded in reality. Now, more than half of you, i can't even trust your words anymore. Opinions or blind bias, that's the million dollar question. I can say that KZ2 looks awesome to a miriad of applause, but hey, Gears 2 looks awesome, and i get this, uh face simpathy crap.

Eat your words, sad bunch of posers....

where's all that smudge now? You can even tell from the ammo indicator at the top that those pictures from this pages link are doctored. But i guess you want to believe anything that will discredit this game. Sometimes i can not stand coming to this site.

Let's just enjoy gaming, people, really; come on now....


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BIoodmask - 56 days 8 hours ago
3 - I really wish the mods
would monitor these threads better. Is it possible to have even one Gears of War thread without bringing up Killzone 2?

NOTE: This thread isn't about Killzone 2, so the comments really don't apply. See how that works?

"But out the 2 i'd still rather play Killzone 2. Not to mention, the graphics are better on Killzone 2 (no way!) yeah it really is."

Also to cite which graphics are better is 'YOUR OPINION.' Graphics are nothing but artistic expression. How are some graphics 'BETTER' than others. What about Cell-shaded graphics like Okami?

"It makes me wonder though, since GOW2 looks graphically like GOW1, has the 360 maxed out?"

Actually, since they both use the Unreal Engine 3 isn't that a more plausible reason that they look similar? And to think that any hardware is 'MAXED OUT' is absurd. As years go by programmers are always finding new ways to improve the performance of their engines for 'ALL CONSOLES.'