I have to say.. I'm impressed by how much they've been able to do with an 11 year-old graphics engine. But still.. 11 year-old engine. I do think that it established ID Tech 3 as the greatest FPS game engine of all time. I liked the looks of the original Unreal engine better (versus the original Q3 engine), but it didn't last like this.
Yeah, in other words.. not much has changed. I wish they had put some shots from Call of Duty 2 in here too. The game engine they are using today is the same engine used for that game. It's just spruced up a little bit. COD is such a cash-cow franchise with so little real progress.. That's what happens when you rush a game out every year.
WOW.. the statement made by Brigden at the end really sums up how blind these developers have become. His statement made no sense! "You will still lose copies to piracy even without protection, so protection is a necessary deterrent.” Umm.. Kieran, nobody is questioning that you will lose sales to piracy if you leave copy-protection off games. We know that.. that's why it was added in the first place. We went through that years ago. Where we stand now is that DRM is increasingly ineffective, and people are finding ways around it anyway. OR, they just don't buy the games anymore because it annoys the heck out of them that they are being treated like thieves by the software! You may actually be losing more sales due to having annoying or badly executed DRM, than you would lose to piracy if you had none! Just make the game, put it out there, and see who likes it enough to pay for it. Accept that we have come back around the horn on this issue to the point that DRM is doing more harm than good. I know people who have first gotten a pirated copy of a game, and then literally went out and bought the real thing because it was so good! They did it because they wanted to support the good work of the developer/publisher. People in general will support good work!
Nobody should be surprised by the results here. There is a pretty wide separation between the GPUs being used in each system. The PC is using the most advanced graphics chip ever released to the consumer (GT200) in the GTX 280, the XBox 360 is using an ATI R600 predecessor (Xenos), and the PS3 is using a Geforce 7900 with half the memory bandwidth of a PC version (RSX). It makes sense that the 360 would have slightly better graphical capabilities than the PS3, but that the PC would be well ahead.
xd3usx... what are you talking about? COD4 is only in it's full glory on a good PC, no offense to the now current-gen consoles. The game runs incredibly well on my 8800 gt ko powered system, and even looks better than the x360 or ps3 versions on my friend's 7900gt superclocked. This is a fine new card by AMD... but they are once again late to the party. They are benchmarking it against a card (8800gtx) that has been on the market for well over a year.... that's sad.
I would just like to say that I think the graphics in this game are highly overrated. I'm running it maxed out on an overclocked 640mb geforce 8800gts, so I know I'm not missing anything. I don't think it looks much better than some 2 year-old games, like Call of Duty 2, or FEAR in some areas. I see alot of textures that are no better than Doom 3 (which is still nothing to sneeze at, but yeah). I hope other Unreal 3 games make better use of the engine. I had another fairly serious PC gamer with me when I played through the demo, and he wasn't very impressed with most of the graphical aspect either. The water is very nice, but I think Crysis will blow it out of the water (no pun intended). Very impressive atmosphere, but technically not all that great if you ask me.
I'm a suffering video card/computer junkie... but reading this makes me feel pretty good. Assuming we actually get alot of dx10 games out in the next year, i'll feel really good about my purchase. I have an athlon x2 4400 toledo@ 2.4 ghz running on a good ole asus a8n-sli board, 2gbs corsair ram, and a 640mb evga 8800gts. currently nothing slows me down up to 1600X1200... I just hope to actually get 2 years out of the card. Since I've gotten my 939 board, i've gone from 1 6600gt, to 2 of them in sli, to 1 7800gt, to 2 7900gt oc's, back to one 7900 since 2 didn't make sense with my monitor.. and now to the 8800gts. i hate this market, but it's addictive.
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