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[Cyberia]

Also are there blast shards in this?, i liked collecting them in the older games.

Yes.

 

[StuBurns]

Horia Dociu joined the team as the new art director back in December 2011. Formerly he worked at FuturePoly (as an Concept Art Instructor), Arenanet (Guild Wars 2) and Valve (Half-Life 2's enviroment artist).

Well he appears to have been a most astute hire.

 

[Certinty]

comparing 2 old PS3 games with a supposed next-gen game.

what a retarded guy.

No because there are open world games just as old as the first 2 inFamous games that feel more alive. So far from what I've seen SS doesn't even look more alive than some last-gen games either. But I'll wait until playing the game for myself before making a final judgement.

 

[Kade]

Well he appears to have been a most astute hire.

I was amazed when I found out he was Daniel Dociu's son. I wonder if anyone in that family isn't a top tier artist.

 

[Xun]

I think if you take into account the fact that this game is open world, i honestly think this is one of if not the best looking game i have ever seen yet. It looks as good as Crysis 3 on PC and that is linear as you can get.

The only thing i don't like about the graphics is the hud which looks cheap and like graffiti or something (maybe thats the point). I like the hud in the older games like the electric energy thing that you upgraded over time, it looks cheap in this game. I also don't like the 3D map although i can't remember if it was like that in the older games.

Also are there blast shards in this?, i liked collecting them in the older games.

The DOF looks pretty terrible as well.

In motion the game looks great, but I'm not really getting wowed by these shots in all honesty.

 

[murgo]

Holy shit. HOLY SHIT!!

 

[RetroStu]

Any pictures of the whole map yet?

 

[benny_a]

Any pictures of the whole map yet?

Check the spoiler thread.

 

[StuBurns]

I was amazed when I found out he was Daniel Dociu's son. I wonder if anyone in that family isn't a top tier artist.

The current art team are certainly very impressive.

I don't want to trivialize the rest of the staff though, it's easy to point to just the art director, and lay all praise or criticism at their feet, I'm sure there's a small army of artists that slaved away at the project. I think just the fact it's set in Seattle probably helps, both in wanting to more accurately document where they live, and in having a more accurate sense of what it should look like. It's a team effort, of course, but yeah, really impeccable results.

Father Grigori would be proud.

 

[Raist]

The great thing about Infamous:SS and Watch_Dogs is that you can perfectly well enjoy the one game in March/April and the other game in May/June.

Do you reckon two months are enough to visit Los Sa Seattle?

 

[Y2Kev]

well ok