Do You Want Gears of War 3 To Look Like This?

Kotaku: Epic Games makes Gears of War and, if Kotaku had to guess, maybe someday a sequel. At Game Developers Conference, Epic showed their latest Unreal game engine upgrades, including fancy foliage tech, pictured here. Want it in a Gears?

[Sonyslave3]

yes yes come on epic don't fvck the online this time

[TROLL EATER]

wow looks better than uncharted 2

[dustgavin]

^^
What looks better than Uncharted 2? You do realize this is just a demonstration, right?

[karan8624]

No, thats too much.

ARE
YOU
METALLY
RETARDED?

[infamousinfolite]

No he just got them goddang foggles on that makes him believe uncharted is ps2 game smh every 360 fanboy wears one.

[JackBNimble]

may be I'm going blind but I never thought Uncharted2 was as good as everyone said. I even bought the dam game because of all the hype and I was kind of erked.

Ya it was a nice looking game but how do you guys say this is the best graphics in a game on the ps3? Even if it is graphically the best game ,the game play sure didn't make it the best game.

Gears of war3 looks nice but some how i think that DVD9 will limit this game from being the best it could be.

[Narutone66]

Aaron Greenberg told them. So they believe them. Or is it they are all Aaron Greenberg's multiple accounts?

[SonySoldiers]

UNREAL 3 ENGINE = TRUE CINEMATIC CAMERA LENS, REAL LIFE COLORS

UNCHARTED 2 ENGINE = CINEMATIC CAMERA LENS ON CARTOONISH EFFECTS, OVER SATURATED COLORS FTW!

[commodore64]

@1.3

"ARE
YOU
METALLY
RETARDED?"

um.. did you mean 'mentally'?

Lovely self-ownage.
Just lovely.

[The Iron Sheik]

Which is it 360 fanboys? You say you don't care about graphics but you are all so quick to say xbox game Y looks better than PS3 game Z. Of course they never do.

[sid4gamerfreak]

PS3 FTW, look at that lame video the ps3 dis[played those graphics at launch date, the 360 is only now catching up..

[avengers1978]

This is a tech demo running to show off a new engine upgrade, there is no one saying this is the next gears or that this is running on a 360, most likely everyone has just heard cliffyB and assumed that it was the next gears on 360, but no one has said that, NO ONE.
Plus these graphics are compareable to uncharted 2, so people who own a playstation have seen this quaility before.

[Trebius]

This is obviously tech running on a PC, not a 360 ... and the fact that there's nothing going on (firefights or anything) makes it even less likely that it'll look anything CLOSE to this.

The xbox community gets spoonfed this crap and they believe every word of it ...

But the 360 will never catch up with the PS3's 1st year's graphics. hahaha.

[Noble Spartan]

wow, vegatation system looks way better then Uncharted 2 , Also brumak video looked amazing.

Halo Reach + Gears Of War 3

These games going to be visual masterpieces.

[Nitrowolf2]

that looks like a level from uncharted
looks great

[LordMarius]

uncharted 1 level graphics

[N4PS3G]

http://cache-05.gawkerasset...
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http://img17.imageshack.us/...

any day of the week because the foliage looks a lot more real

[Nitrowolf2]

wow that looks better, also i wasn't saying in graphics i ment how it reminded me of a level from uncharted

[N4PS3G]

@nitrowolf

don't worry i know you didn't say that :) i was replying to 1.1

[Foxgod]

Much better then uncharted, uncharted doesnt have tessellation.
These shots clearly show tessellation.

May i also remind some people that the 360 is the only current gen console that can do tessellation.

[Chaos Striker]

It can do tessellation, but at what cost I wonder. I am unsure if I am correct on this, but doesn't tessellation require a lot of resources to implement? Regardless, I'm curious to see when tessellation will actually be used in console games.

@Megacheak

Thanks for the video. It shall definitely be interesting to see more games implement this technique.

[Raf1k1]

This looks pretty good but they seem to be in-engine renders like the amazing CryEngine ones so a game using the upgraded engine won't look quite as good.

[megacheak]

Chaos Striker - "It can do tessellation, but at what cost I wonder"
Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Halo Reach uses it very successfully, so far confirmed only "water tessellation", but I think tessellation will be used on other objects / surfaces.

*P.S.1: How could I get "Disagree" for a statement of fact. Fanboys on this site are crazy. Formal confirmation of my words - http://www.bungie.net/News/...
*P.S.2: These idiots also downgraded the video on youtube, which simply demonstrates the technology ... which is also posted on the official website of the game ... some people on this site probably is not possible to prove that 2 * 2 = 4 (especially if Sony tell them that 2 * 2 = 5).

[Anorexorcist]

It would be interesting if the next Gears of War were set in some kind of jungle setting like this. With all the hardcore gunplay and explosions (not to mention the meat-headed characters), It would almost look like a faithful representation of a Predator game.

[ProjectVulcan]

Is it running on a console though or demoed on a PC? Well the areas look tiny but it makes a change from Browns of war. I think Epic have done this to try and ward off developers sniffing around cryengine 3, they dont want to look like their main business is falling behind crytek's shiny new errr...tools.

[EvilBlackCat]

"uncharted 1 level graphics"

Here they come!!!!

are you blind?

"It does look like something from the first Uncharted"

uh... NO

[presto717]

Instead of just black red and brown.

[Christopher]

No, I'd prefer it be at least 720p resolution instead of 600p

:p

Honestly, can't tell at that level of resolution how it looks on my monitor. It looks okay, otherwise, but nothing outstanding or that wasn't done in the last two years.

[Immortal321]

but here in dynamic land, you a bit late. Still though this looks good even for PC! I would love to see this in action 60fps

[Mr Logic]

So, you don't see anything wrong with even just comparing a 2007 game to a 2010 engine?

[TOO PAWNED]

it looks like uncharted 1 beggining stage.

[CryofSilence]

Looks like it's from very close to the beginning of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

[Shaman]

tesselation actually saves resources. If you want a 100k detail poly character without tesselation, you need 100k vertices in ram.But using tesselation, you can have a 25k model in ram and add the extra vertices.You can also choose when to add vertices, allowing simpler geometry at a distance for LOD savings, or even if there's a lot on screen, reducing the per-object complexity as demans increase.

Tessalation will actually save you cpu cycles for geometry...only wonder when will they start to use memexport...

[Cold 2000]

Gears 2 should have looked like Lost Planet 2.

It would have been huge.

[cool cole]

Looks more like Uncharted 1 pre-alpha graphics.

[OpenGL]

Heavy usage of hardware tessellation brings the Radeon 5870 to it's knees in current DirectX 11 applications, and you seem to think the R500 in the Xbox 360 will be able to handle it properly?

On topic: These screen shots look fantastic. I would like to see more colorful environments in the next Gears of War.

[infamousinfolite]

Yes it does.

Now not only will 360 games be fun and enjoyable but they'll also look great too.

[HolyOrangeCows]

Do I want a console game to look like an engine demo running on a top of the line computer? Sure. Will it happen? Of course not.

I don't really think Gears shouldn't take place in such a colorful place, really. Gears is dark.

[bjornbear]

don't forget unreal engine runs on PC too ;)

but yes that'd be great for gears! =D COLOUR

[GiantEnemyCrab]

This is tech. You are all looking at a screen shot and talking about Uncharted. Have you seen this tech in action? Just a little bit of the vegetation in UC1 and UC2 is actually interactive. The vegetation doesn't move when you walk through it, it does not respond to bullet fire. Lot of it is just canned, like the birds that fly when you walk onto a ledge..

This is talking more along the lines of Crysis.

[only on playstaychun]

@GiantEnemyCrab not sure if you played U:DF cause I clearly remember Chapter 2 where some of the vegetation actually moves as you walk through it, but yh you are right it isnt as interactive as say Crysis.

[drtanuyn]

DUDE!!! THAT WAS EXACTLY I WAS THINKING!! LOL

i love kotaku.. there like the most boring of people, that game!
i.e. Michael McWhertor
http://www.gametrailers.com...
(chapter 3, 27:00)

and

Shane Satterield from gametrailers
he's like the emo goth reject of the crowd that looks like he's just being crying..lol

[WildArmed]

yeah people are gonna hate me for this..

but it reminds me of Uncharted Drake's Fortune's level.
Luscious, green with a hint of architecture.

Can't wait for GeOW3

[Millah]

Wow that does look pretty nice. Nice to actually see a more varied color palette as well. Lets see some character models though, thats not really UE3's strong point.

[sikbeta]

@megacheak

"(especially if Sony tell them that 2 * 2 = 5)"

lol Great way to start a flame-war, dude, as far as I know I can't remember of Someone at Sony saying something like that, I do Remember a COMPLETE CREW that Believe 576P = 1080P cuz someone [you know who] say so...

[dougr]

Those screens look good to me. I'd like some of the ps3 games to have levels and graphics like that.

[shadow2797]

DAMN! Those screens look fantastic. They could easily be mistaken for photos.

Now obviously we won't see anything like that running on current gen hardware, but it really gets me pumped for next gen.

And yes, we all know this blows Uncharted away. But the ruins do look very reminiscent of Uncharted's art style. Imagine if Uncharted 3 looked like that.. *drools*

Good work, Epic.

[ABizzel1]

Epic's Unreal demonstrations are always much better than what any of the games actually end up being. But that's not to say that we won't see a leap in Gears 3. Seems like we can expect better graphics, more color, and varied environments in Gears 3.

[likedamaster]

This looks far beyond Uncharted 1/2 foliage. Much more realistic and much better lighting. The nerve of some fanboys.

The more you compare these pics with Uncharted's, the more flaws you find in Uncharted. Granted, we don't know if this will be for 360.

Edit: @Foxgod and Megacheak

You're absolutely right. I just checked and Bungie's official site says the water sports a mix between bumpmapping/tesselation, etc. Good stuff, bubbles.

[pixelsword]

Look on page 22

http://www.technology.scee....

Once again, people speaking from the center of ignorance, self-willed or otherwise, falls short when comparing themselves to facts.

If anyone disagrees, please tell me how a presentation directly from Sony is incorrect, and that they actually don't mean tessellation when it's described plainly in the presentation's file.

Please, I look forward to someone to correct industry-level programmers at Sony on how they didn't mean tessellation and that their mighty post on n4g is the new industry standard for documentation on the phyre engine.

[hikayu17]

um ... i remember that resistance 2 has some pretty good water surface physic too . i dont know if it's tessellation since im not that big of a techy . but im just saying , the water tessellation doesnt seems that impressive to me . in fact , imo , it feels low res . i still dont get why people make such a big deal about Reach's graphic . it looks fine , but not amazing in anyway possible . so is unreal engine . sure it an pull off some pretty impressive feat , but the plastic-like-skin on the objects just completely ruined for me .

[DatNJDom81]

these grafix are from 2007 on PS3. Dont believe me? play uncharted. But since its on 360 you have to give the developers props for making a game look good on a POS system. damn thats the liquor talking. sorry guys, 360 is ok. overrated but its still a good system.

[specialguest]

In an Unreal Engine kind of way, but meh... Time to retire the Unreal Engine.

[Will-UK]

the graphics look good but N4PS3G you are the worst kind of troll, you get the worst shots of uncharted 2 you could find and also you just submit & approve loads of anti-ps3 news, come on its kind of sad.

[pixelsword]

Resistance 2's water didn't look good to you, you're entitled to your opinion and I respect that.

With all due respect, it still doesn't negate the point that people on this thread were saying that the PS3 couldn't do tessellations and were incorrect.

I'm iffy on the water for R2 myself because although the motion of the ocean (ha!) was the best ocean I've seen in games, when it came to medium-sized pools of water, the water would overreact when you shoot it.

[masterg]

I'm always impressed with Epics tech demo's.
My problem is that when the games come out they do not live up to the demo at all.

Using all the power to create an environment is not possible when doing a game. So don't get your hopes up.

[vhero]

You will never see in game graphics like that on the 360 that was from a tech demo the 360 doesn't have the power to put out that kind of game and neither does the PS3. If you think it does then you are deluded N4PS3G I noticed is at the heart of all this constantly claiming this is somehow gonna be from a real game well you need to grow up an know the differnce between a tech demo and a real game.

Also this tech demo doesn't mean gears 3 is coming out it also didn't say anything about 360.. Want proof Tech demos don't mean anything?

http://uk.gamespot.com/ps3/...

There ya go.. Job done.. I don't need to say anything more..

[avengers1978]

No one has said that this is running on a 360, this is not a representation of the 360, but of the new engine upgrade. Most likely being ran on a high end pc.

[NickIni]

This is just a tech demo, having nothing whatsoever to do with Gears 3, which hasn't even been formally announced. Kotaku are just suggesting that we could see those kind of graphics in the game.

[menoyou]

"kotaku"

thanks but no thanks.

[wpggamer]

That foliage is pretty good, would have to check if it's on par with crysis. But it doesn't really fit with the theme of gears. I just think they are showing the improvements in the engine to sell it. Just goes to show, UE3 still has some room to grow.

[baum]

Hey foxgod, you don't even know what tessellation means, you're the same ignoramus that said that the next Xbox should have an i7, which is barely superior to the CPU the 360 has and not even as good as the Cell processor for floating point operations. You don't know anything. lol at the "those shots clearly show tessellation", LMFAO. Oh, and foxgod... PS3 can do tessellation just fine on the cell processor without much impact in performance, you don't need a tessellation unit to do tessellation on PS3, just on 360. And by the way, if it really was a big differentiator for 360, why has it never been used? Because if it has been used, then it's not really that much. My bet is that you don't know what you're talking about, as usual. Anyway... go look at mediocre multiplatform games, those will make you think you somehow made the right choice :)

Anyway, if any Xbox fanboy thinks this is really running on 360, they are delusional. This is running on PC. On 360 it would look way worse than this. This doesn't even look as good as Crysis at highest settings on PC. It's still Unreal Engine 3.

[Xi]

we're talking about hardware tessellation, not software tessellation.

Any cpu/gpu can do tessellation, the problem is that without a dedicated hardware workaround it eats up waaaay to much processing power.

[Sonyslave3]

Damn Halo and Gears of war in the same year OMG

[dezic]

looks too much like Uncharted.

[JackBNimble]

vegetation looks to much like uncharted? Really?

The 360 can display beautiful graphics aswell as the ps3, it's only real limitation is dvd9 and the fact that there is no mandatory installation to the HDD.

[madjedi]

@2.1 Actually the 360 is lacking one other vital thing, and that is custom engines built from the ground up, tailored to exploit the strengths that the 360 has.

Bungie's new engine might be the first one, who knows though, the fact that 90% of the 360 games now are either multiplatform or based on multiplatform engines compounds the problem. Since ms has basically killed most of their first party studios, and 3rd party exclusives are basically dead this gen, a 360 only engine that pushes it hardwares to the limit is going to be extinct.

I believe the 360 will more than likely never hit the same level as the newest ps3 exclusives, simply because, other than a handful exclusives, it's almost entirely a multiplatform console that is restricted to multiplatform engines. Third parties aren't going to either play to it's strengths or have at best modest jumps in visuals on both consoles multiplat games.

Considering this is a pc tech demo, i don't think we will see this too much in either of this gens consoles, more likely the next gen consoles will be capable without too much difficulty, any chance ray tracing will be ready for the next gen of consoles?

[Inside_out]

look like uncharted you say...hmmm...Does UC look like tomb raider...Hmmm...is it okay with you if other games look jungle like and green...lol...The purpose of these screens, IMO, is show how versatile the unreal engine is, assuming of-course this is unreal engine screens...Regardless, the screens look great with many shadows, water effects and precise details...the statues look awesome with great detail...Unreal an awesome tool...BUT...It all depends on the developer...

[N4PS3G]

wow... i honestly didn't expect this jump in graphics from the Unreal Engine

[Cartesian3D]

I know you wont even listen to me.. but improvement in Unreal Engine doesnt mean same improvement in 360 or PS3 version of the games..

on the PC you can do what ever you want, but you have many limits in console hardware

is it me .. or those pictures really look like Uncharted design?

[Raf1k1]

Actually, the pictures aren't colourful enough to look like Uncharted images.

[commodore64]

@ ^^^

Yeah, I agree.

UC2 has a very cartoony colourful look about it.
These screenshots look somewhat more realistic.

[The Maxx]

Hmmm. I agree with you Commadore64. Now...what other game do we know that looks realistic and takes place in the forest? Damn the name doesn't seem to want to come to me. It's there....damn what is the name of that game with very realistic forest environments....you know, not the one with the colorful cartoony jungle design but that other one...you know...it was a FPS game...I think only on PC...damn I wish I could remember that name...

***cough Crysis cough***

[GR8 1]

God Gears of War 3 is gonna kill any game on ps3 and i am telling the TRUTH those are Mind Blowing Graphics never before done on consoles. Like i said before xbox360 is gonna out do the ps3 in graphics by the time 2010 is done and dusted. Look and weep ps3 retards.

Halo Reach
Alan Wake
Gears of War 3

are setting the bench mark in graphics while sony's ps3 struggles to compete.

Watch GOW3 Graphics teared to pieces by this new Epic Tech:

[NateNater]

Really? I would say it's the other way around. You cannot say that any game on the 360 has better graphics than KZ2, U2, or GoW3. I doubt 360 even has the power to surpass what PS3 has shown us so far.

[blasian]

xbox setting standards for graphics... i cant remember the last time ive seen a xbox exclusive vs another xbox exclusive... right i havent cuz the graphics r pathetic

[Erotic Sheep]

We're still waiting for that 360 game to equal Uncharted 1.. which is a game from 2 years ago >_>

[infamousinfolite]

"Halo Reach
Alan Wake
Gears of War 3

are setting the bench mark in graphics while sony's ps3 struggles to compete."

You must be one of Microsoft's PR's.

[Mr Logic]

the 360 finally actually RELEASES a game that looks better than KZ2, Uncharted2, Heavy Rain, GOW III, you are welcome to gloat as much as you want. Until then stfu.

[awesomeperson]

Ahh yeah, these are some pics from their engine.

When you put CHARACTER MODELS, action, fighting and movement in them, expect it to be dumbed down significantly :)

[dustgavin]

Exactly! Some ignorant bots on here are pretending these are photos from the actual game.

[karan8624]

I dont think the article says this is on the 360 either

Unreal is a multiplat engine

[baconbits69]

You do realize that by the end of the year Gran Turismo 5 will definitely be out and I'm hoping that Killzone 3 also drops. So you can try and believe anything that will help you sleep at night but just wait until you see those two masterpieces. But if they had graphics like that in your precious Gears 3 you would only have a 30 min game due to the dvd storage issues.

[JackBNimble]

Wheather you want to believe it or not the PS3 is not struggling, and it doesn't matter how many times you say it , it will not come true.

[Zir0]

Looks incredible Gears will once again be a graphical showcase

[mythamp]

Looks to me like any other hyped up tech demo, unreal engine will always remain a 3rd class crap for 3rd party developers. Sorry this is too good to be true and like the saying goes.....if its too good to be true....

[Omega4]

Looks amazing E3 should be interesting

[Greywulf]

erm..

really...far...away..

[WildArmed]

Regardless of that... statement.

Gears 2 was a really great game. (loved horde mode)

[dirthurts]

I could see some jungle action in Gears 2. Just please...no more worm sections...seriously.

[kwyjibo]

And blows this away.

----

Re: Oldsnake007

I'm sorry that my simple logic is blowing you away. The point is, that previous CryEngines weren't multiplatform, so couldn't compete with UE3.

It now can.

[Oldsnake007]

lol UE3 is also Multiplatform Engine.

every games using the UE3 can be made for both Systems and it will look 99% the same.

[siegeislike]

Unreal/Epic is smart...if they base the story for Gears 3 on the book "jacinto's remnant"...then they will have ALOT of green terrain since after they ruin jacinto they need sanctuary.

[peeps]

looks really good. will be interesting to see how GOW3 turns out. imo the first was much better than the second. maybe it's because it was more amazing when it released than when the second did (plus second suffered lots of bugs etc) but i just though the first was better.

also hope they scrap matcmaking, much preffered a server list tbh and for me gow mp is on the verge of being amazing but has too many little announces that mean i don't really enjoy vs gamemodes

[Sonyslave3]

http://gamersyde.com/news_p...

No more suspense, Alan Wake astonished us from its production to the atmosphere that's been created, but above and beyond all, its technical mastery. Remedy used to be known for its top-notch rendering engines, and they prove again they are worthy of their fame. To be clear, none of the existing Xbox 360 games even compares to it, and even on PS3, which have more real exclusive titles, it's hard to find an equivalent. Killzone 2, Uncharted 2, Crysis, these are the few games which can compete with it. Whether it's the real-time projected shadows produced by the essential flashlight (those were obviously missing in Condemned 1 & 2), the total absence of aliasing (720p 4x FSAA), the breathtaking realistic lighting effects, the huge size of certain levels, SSAO, the atmospheric effects, the humongous size of some moving objects, the vegetation which interacts with characters and wind, or the largely satisfying framerate (with a light tearing that should disappear in the retail version) and many other physical and graphical effects, Alan Wake never ceases to amaze you with relative ease.

I being saying this for the longest MS need stop relying on 3rd party engines.

[infamousinfolite]

To be clear, none of the existing Xbox 360 games even compares to it, and even on PS3, which have more real exclusive titles, it's hard to find an equivalent. "Killzone 2, Uncharted 2, Crysis, these are the few games which can compete with it." Vice-versa

[A change in the wind]

I`m sorry, but that is the only article I`ve EVER seen to praise AW graphics like that. I`ve seen 360 fanboys post it like 10 times. The guy says that Crysis can merely compete??? His opinion is void right there.

[JackBNimble]

I ddn't know Alan wake was released yet, wait a minute are you trying to compare a game that's not even out yet with UC1,UC2 and KillZone2?

hahaha...weak.

[Cajun Chicken]

No, I would prefer the real ENJOYABLE games that Epic make such as Unreal and Unreal Tournament to look like this. That or a new IP to look like that, not Gears, doesn't deserve it.

[xabmol]

Why do you hate Gears so much? I've beaten the first one and got about 3/4 into the sequel. They were pretty fun, game-play wise.

[execution17]

rarely have hordes of enemies charging after you, 4 to 6 tops other then the fight with Raam its average at best

[ironmonkey]

it is uncharted 1

[GrandDragon]

N4PS3G thinks those are actual GeOW3 screen-shots lol. 360 wouldn't even be able to handle Flower so how would it handle this?

[infamousinfolite]

I thought it was gameplay>graphics for yall

[Biggest]

It will be again once they find out the actual game looks nothing like that.

[infamousinfolite]

lol yea

[xabmol]

Uncharted 1, the first level where you find the first ruins and have to push the boulder off the ledge.

[Nathan Drake2]

first halo 3:ODST copied killzone 2 graphics and now gears copies uncharted

[maniacf40]

.

[yogaflame]

yes , but to bad xbox 360 specs cannot handle this, they did not even achieve kz2 level or UC2 quality yet

[Foxgod]

They already surpassed that ages ago with gears 2.

[xabmol]

Ahh... Fox, you are so funny. xD

[Karum]

Foxgod you are one seriously delusional individual.

[BannedForNineYears]

Not possible on the 360.
Only PC. -_-
And possibly PS3.

[Foxgod]

Ps3 cant do tessellation.
So its possible on PC, not on ps3, and maybe on 360.

[GarandShooter]

@ Foxgod

Still spreading FUD, you sad little child? Can you read this?

'At runtime, the tessellation of the terrain takes only half of one SPU - this time including processing the terrain for the shadow-map generation. Considering that the terrain accounts for much of the visible scene and contains a lot of geometry, this is a reasonably good use of resources.'

See, it clearly says tessellation. So much for your knowledge, pseudo-expert.

Props and bubbles to pixelsword for the link to the PhyreEngine CEDEC 2008 Presentation.

[RELAX]

ABSOLUTE YES

[yogaflame]

it can be done on ps3 because of bluray and cell and PC with good graphic card. But honestly guys, no offense it cannot be done on xbox 360, sorry

[kneon]

They are just screen shots, we need in game video, not screen shots, not cut scenes. Once you have that then start the ridiculous arguments.

Static screen shots mean very little. I wrote a 3d rendering engine back in university over 20 years ago that could do amazingly realistic effects. All you had to do was kick everyone else off of the mini-computer and wait the 1 hour+ it took to render a SINGLE VGA resolution image, not video, 1 FRAME.

But if I showed you that one frame and said this is what the game would look like you would probably say it was amazing. But of course replicating that in a game would have been imposible at anything over 1 frame per hour. Not likely the most enjoyable gaming experience :)

The only aspect of the graphics that really matters is what you see in the game on the machine you are going to play, not what was pre-rendered on a multi-million dollar server farm.

[rubixCubos]

CryEngine 3 is better, because I think UE3 looks too plastic and shiny. From what I've seen of CE3, it looks far more realistic and certainly it's lighting is superior.

[DaGR8JIBRALTAR]

YES I DO!!!!

[kcdude]

I wanted Gears of War 2 to look like this :(

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Ohhh... look what can't be done on the PS3. You know it droids, it looks waaay better than anything you have :)

[kingjoker34]

wow. you REALLY are a idiot arent you jason. This engine is also ON PS3. wow. I really think you are more idiotic then that GR8 1.

you guys act like this is exclusive to 360 which it is not. show me a game that can compete with uc2 gow3 kz2 gt5 and heavy rain.

thats right you can not. and dont even say that POS Game alan wake with that blur and fog filter hiding the real graphics.

[The Iron Sheik]

Haha Jason got owned.

Again.

[drtanuyn]

troll eater said
"wow looks better than uncharted 2"

troll eater, GO EAT YOURSELF

DOUCHE BAG!

[PLAYSTATIONGENRATION]

That right there is on par with uncharted 1.....almost(lol) i kid ...Its about time they are almost catching up

[DirtyLary]

Like the xbox can render anything that high in detail.

[theone26]

The lack of HDR hurts those pictures, still props to UE3 for catching up with Uncharted 1 jungle scene.

[MyLightKilzTractors]

Looks to me like someone has been picking through naughty dogs leftovers.

[DigitalAnalog]

Primal Carnage. Looks like this updated engine may do it justice.

-End statement

[NinjaSp33d]

i want it NOW

[Figboy]

it'll be interesting to see how this performs when having to run OTHER game code like AI, physics, animations, etc.

but it looks really, really good. Unreal Engine definitely needed an upgrade, and it looks like it's got it.

[OhMyGandhi]

if this is unreals new engine, Then the crytek engine has nothing to worry about.

[1PC2PS33360]

for the xbox 720 to come out before they release gears 3....why run a sexy engine like this at 1156x600p with no anti aliasing and 30fps????

Please microsoft...admit it's TIME!!

Xbox720...coming Holiday 2011...Gears of War 3 to be LAUNCH TITLE!!

[SAFARI]

"Uncharted holds legal rights over rainforests and ruins.

True story."

That comment made me laugh. :DDDDDD

[xer0]

Was this tech demo done on the PC or Xbox?
My guess is PC.

Journalists need to ask that question...

[OrganicMachine]

remeber tech demos are limited only to show the tech, it's like a small patch of a game that its main purpose is to show off the tech..

seeing this being applied to a game and running/looking great is another story.

[CKsquid]

I Dont really care much for gears 3 cuz i dont own an xbox....
But damn the unreal engine has gone a long way .... looks sweet....but is it me are would that just not fit in with the gears feeling ... that setting ? :/

[LinuxGuru]

You can expect maybe half of that foliage thickness if that engine is running on 360.

Oh and drop the texture size and resolution to about 50-60% of that for the 360 as well.

[-MD-]

Uh-oh!

[Karum]

These shots are from a tech demo, these are likely not a representation of graphical quality from UE3 that you will see on either the 360 or PS3.

The acid test will be how big of a leap Gears 3 is on UE3 and 360 compared to Gears 2. I'm looking forward to seeing it simply because I wanna play Gears 3 :)

[Gigalol]

To be clear, none of the existing Xbox 360 games even compares to it, and even on PS3, which have more real exclusive titles, it's hard to find an equivalent. "Killzone 2, Uncharted 2, Crysis, these are the few games which can compete with it.

CRY MOAR DROIDS FAIL

[level 360]

They look like they came off a Tomb Raider game..

..and please please please N4G do fix your website!!

Loading time and add to that it freezes afterward is just absolutely ridiculous and frustrating!!

[MarkyMarky]

whats tesselation?

[LinuxGuru]

Advanced geometry performance saving technique...it's like a weird form of dynamic level of detail.

http://fireuser.com/blog/te...

[yog-sothot]

cool... I want to see more

[BlindspliT]

am i looking at uncharted 1? i think so;P

[sid4gamerfreak]

Those grahpics r from the year 2005 if u game on a PC. For consoles its looks good. Glad you console gamers are getting good graphics while the PC gets 'truly' nex gen graphics.

[bison812]

The level design looks cool. I wish the A.I. would adapt to the environment. What I mean is guerrilla tactics. The enemy would use strategies that go with the level.

I am not saying Epic but and company that create such beautiful levels but never have A.I. that I find supporting the level. I will give credit to Epic great looking levels, I wish you the best on Gears 3

[iFLOWLIKEWATER]

Gears will always reset the bar for graphics, seeing as...
1. Gears 1 set the benchmark on consoles...
2. Thats what Epic is about...
3. When people think of Gears...its about graphics. Its burned into their brains...first impressions are a lasting one.

[Xfanboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Deios]

Gears of Wars doesn't belong in a level like this. This looks like Uncharted and Tomb Raider levels.

[RagTagBnd445]

It has been going downhill for Epic since they started to only do 360 exclusives. Gears may be good, but no where the legacy of Unreal Tournament.

The screenshots look good, but let us see an actual game first before we begin to judge anything.

[ManiacMansion]

Wait until :)!

[Monk3y]

Epic said that theres no more Gears for this generation, and i HIGHLY DOUBT thta this is possible on this gen consoles.

[1PC2PS33360]

This is going to be a launch title for the 720

[RagTagBnd445]

The edges looks too antialiased and the shadows to soft to believe that this would really be possible at consoles at the moment. I want something in real time with gameplay before i believe this.

[GeoramA]

Gears 3 to look like a 2007 game...lol

[Hotel_Moscow]

gears of war 3 will definitely look like kill zone 2

[baconbits69]

Well it will have to deal with K3 not K2...

[GeoramA]

UE3 engine...what an outdated joke.

[redmamoth]

Lost: Via Domus!! Haha, good times!

[dkgshiz]

I think its pretty obvious the PS3 is much more powerful then the 360. Just look at the games. KZ2, UC2, MGS4, LBP, GOW 3, GT5,etc...

[magicwalnuts]

Cryengine2 but not quite as fancy

[BDSLiVe]

In the underworld parts of Gears 2, when you are walking along hasn't anyone notice those plants that harm you look relatively like those from Avatar.

[Paballo]

Non of us are developers so I don't understand how gamers are so quick to say what is possible or not possibe on the current gen of consoles,bt if there is anything I have learnt frm previous generationsn,Its that with enough optermisation u can get even the most demanding of tech to run on a system.who knew early on that ps2 could run a game like GOW2 or the xbox can run Half-Life2?.we have not even reach half of this cyle yet...I believe ps3 and 360 still have a long way to go b4 they will be pushed to there limits.I recall the DMC dev saying dat dis gen da limitations r less on the hardware and more on the capabilities of each dev.Guess dat explains y wen certain devs dat use da unreal engine ie(bioshock devs )make it look good while others dnt.On the unreal engine topic...it does look good bt I like a few good fellow gamers said,epic tech demostrations and final code of the games running leaves a lot to be deserved....peace mates

[avengers1978]

It is funny how much you bots are tring to convince us and yourselves that this footage is actually in a 360, but it's not. Now that everyone has seen Alan Wake footage, and it does not compare to Uncharted. And everyone has seen Reach footage and it is unimpressive and can't even compare to one year old Killzone 2. Bots are desperate to find something that is impressive they can claim, even if they have no right to claim it.
Unreal engine is for playstation as well as 360, and still NO ONE HAS SAID That this footage is running on a 360. The footage shown would probably take up most of a dvd's storage capacity anyway.