jAkUp
05-20-05, 01:20 AM
First of all let tell you the good news. Alan Wake is an amazing game.
And now the bad news. They do not allow any pictures, movies, etc. Basically its a closed door game. The demonstration was amazing and was probably the best presentation this year (IMO, I thought Timeshift and FEAR single player were amazing as well, we have video of those too)
The game is a 3rd person mission based game. The game as a dynamic weather system. Meaning it changes from dawn to noon to dusk to stormy. He was showing us the different enviornments by moving a slider around. The water is easily the best I have seen in a game, the storm was very lifelike with flying debri and waking water. Every object in the game casts a realistic shadow depending on where the sun is. Every tree, every hill, every object.
He showed us gameplay physics while driving (3rd person) and causing an avalanche with tumbling rocks that destroy everything in its path. The game has a very nice looking flashlight that changes make the shadows move and dance depending on where you shine it.
The character (Alan) was trying to get to a lighthouse by nightime, he did not make it in time, and some sort of ghosts or reapers appeared. The demo then ended. Overall the demo was smooth, but there were obvious parts when the game really started to bog down.
It was running on a next-gen ATI card. I asked the rep if it was a R520, he wasn't allowed to tell. I asked how many pipelines it had. He was not allowed to tell. Although, a Vanguard developer "kinda" said the the next gen cards would have some sort of hardware shadowing feature. I saw the card in the computer. It is HUGE. Its kinda strange because they had two computers on top of each other. One of them had an obviously low end ATI card, the other was the R520 I suppose.
I know this is not much, but this is the best I could get:
http://img262.echo.cx/img262/4963/r520red0ct.png
And now the bad news. They do not allow any pictures, movies, etc. Basically its a closed door game. The demonstration was amazing and was probably the best presentation this year (IMO, I thought Timeshift and FEAR single player were amazing as well, we have video of those too)
The game is a 3rd person mission based game. The game as a dynamic weather system. Meaning it changes from dawn to noon to dusk to stormy. He was showing us the different enviornments by moving a slider around. The water is easily the best I have seen in a game, the storm was very lifelike with flying debri and waking water. Every object in the game casts a realistic shadow depending on where the sun is. Every tree, every hill, every object.
He showed us gameplay physics while driving (3rd person) and causing an avalanche with tumbling rocks that destroy everything in its path. The game has a very nice looking flashlight that changes make the shadows move and dance depending on where you shine it.
The character (Alan) was trying to get to a lighthouse by nightime, he did not make it in time, and some sort of ghosts or reapers appeared. The demo then ended. Overall the demo was smooth, but there were obvious parts when the game really started to bog down.
It was running on a next-gen ATI card. I asked the rep if it was a R520, he wasn't allowed to tell. I asked how many pipelines it had. He was not allowed to tell. Although, a Vanguard developer "kinda" said the the next gen cards would have some sort of hardware shadowing feature. I saw the card in the computer. It is HUGE. Its kinda strange because they had two computers on top of each other. One of them had an obviously low end ATI card, the other was the R520 I suppose.
I know this is not much, but this is the best I could get:
http://img262.echo.cx/img262/4963/r520red0ct.png