GC: PS3 "benefiting from Gears" News
Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 News by Tom Bramwell
They might spend a lot of time wailing about it on Internet forums, but Epic Games VP Mark Rein reckons that PlayStation 3 owners are better off because of Xbox 360 mega-exclusive Gears of War.
"PlayStation 3 is very much benefiting from Gears of War. That sounds silly, but it's very much benefiting from Gears of War," he told Eurogamer in an interview published today.
"We're a little ahead on PlayStation 3 compared to where we were at this time on Xbox 360, and what I mean by that is our code and our level of completeness, and that's because we have shipped a game with Unreal Engine 3 already."
He also reckons that UT3, which ships on PlayStation 3 and PC this November and 360 next year, shows the best of UE3's capabilities to date (although he reckons BioShock is a bit good, too).
"When you see UT, this pushes the engine a lot harder than Gears of War did. I know it sounds preposterous because of how great Gears of War is, but we're pushing this up another notch. I'm very proud of that, and I think it's good for us and it's good for our licensees," he told us.
For more from Rein, including his take on the Silicon Knights lawsuit, status updates on Gears PC and UT3, and the latest on the Gears of War film, check out the full Mark Rein GC 2007 interview.
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allen: Yeah Bioshock isn't using a lot of UE3 but another project is... I'm guessing he doesn't really know what ... 2K BOSTON & 2K AUSTRALIA & 2K CHINA ... did to create Bioshock.
If he did he would ask why it is using FMOD instead of the UE3 sound engine. He would also wonder why it is using Havok for physics instead of the Ageia PhysX that is completely integrated within the UE3 engine. He would also wonder why Havok is controlling the animations instead of the UE3 animation engine. He would also wonder why it's using the UE2 scripting instead of the fancy Kismet for UE3. He might also wonder how the hell the renderer is working. For the rest he's right though.
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"Also what he says is true, then they've managed to not only out do Gears in graphics but also managed to do it on the PS3! Which must dampen Xbox Fanboys spirits abit."
I don't think there's a 360 owner who actually thinks the PS3 can't do 360 graphics. Hell, most would even admit that PS3 is probably a little bit better in the graphics area. Luckily graphics aren't everything. .But the statement that only PS3 is benefiting is bull.
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@Moz
He didn't menton graphics just that they've upped the gameplay with the engine. He was actually talking about networking and community mods etc. etc. How you manage to take that out of context to try to do the usual fanboy interpretaton of things is amazing. Mark Rein's Quote:"When you see UT, this pushes the engine a lot harder than Gears of War did." Moz:"Also what he says is true, then they've managed to not only out do Gears in graphics but also managed to do it on the PS3!" Yea except he never said that did he Moz. And you wonder why nobody likes fanboys. |
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"Also what he says is true, then they've managed to not only out do Gears in graphics but also managed to do it on the PS3! Which must dampen Xbox Fanboys spirits abit."
Why on earth would it? Gears is old hat for 360 owners, the fact that the PS3 gets a visually comparable game a year or two later really won't bother anyone I shouldn't think, besides the 360 version will come out and look better than the PS3 version (as usual) so it's all gravy in the end. |
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"Hell, most would even admit that PS3 is probably a little bit better in the graphics area."
Would they? Why would they 'admit' that? There hasn't been any software on the PS3 to date that has come close to the best offerings on the 360 and 99% of multi-plat titles look noticeably better on the 360, so I'm not quite sure why you'd think that? |
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"We're a little ahead on PlayStation 3 compared to where we were at this time on Xbox 360....
So that means the PS3 is where the 360 was a year ago. Hmm... great sales pitch for the PS3 |
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