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Lara vs Nathan... graphic comparison

RoG write: On the eve of the return on the market for the beautiful English archaeologist, set for next week, seize the opportunity to put a clear comparison between the forerunner and his closest heir ...

... Nathan Drake manages to wrest a Lara Croft the scepter of the most famous of video games? (And not only ..) maybe not today, maybe even ever thanks to the curves of the beautiful and all'appeal archaeologist but certainly work on the PS3 by Naughty Dog has incredible

Soon complete the review and in the meantime:

To you the pictures and comments ...

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ape0076065d ago

uncharted is an amazing game

can't wait for uncharted 2

LightningPS3PS36065d ago

It's like they're comparing screen shots from different gens.

Nathan wins easily.

Mr_Bun6065d ago

Lara's the one with the bigger "guns"

iamtehpwn6065d ago

Uncharted has nearly the same concept as Tomb Raider, But Uncharted is a thousand times greater than Tomb Raider could ever even hope to be.

Uncharted > Tomb Raider
By a landslide - and I'm just talking about game play wise.

Though, it's Graphics win too.

arika6065d ago (Edited 6065d ago )

@ lightning ps3ps3 it's a good thing you drank your meds already you sound normal again, lol. yah i agree with you guys.. it's just unfortunate that tombraider will always be compared to uncharted because you all can see there is no competition here... although nathan has to thank lara for getting to where he is right now...uncharted is still the best tombraiding game ever to come out this gen..

joydestroy6065d ago

yup, Uncharted easily. Uncharted 2 is gonna blow people away i think. that's because the ground work has already been laid out. it's hard to imagine it could be better though.

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Doppy6065d ago (Edited 6065d ago )

Let's be honest here.

Uncharted's has better character models, better textures, and better lighting.

Tomb Raiders has more realistic grass patches (Uncharted has those spiky things in the ground), and from these screens Tomb Raider may have better shadows if it's consistent since I know Uncharted has great shadows as well.

Overall Uncharted looks better, and I'm sure it will be the better game. As far as Uncharted 2 I think the game would be better if it was more open world, not like a GTA or anything, but you know how MGS4 had different routes you could take to get to the same place they should add that and let you explore the forest and temples some more. Oh and they need to fix Nate's platforming animations and make it a little challenging. He looks like a monkey, and he's suppose to be this average Joe, so give it more of an Assassin's Creed look with a hint of Assassin's Creed feel to it,. It was far to easy to jump from section to section and you could even stay on a limb that was going to break without it falling. Give more danger to the platforming without making it overly difficult.

MNicholas6065d ago (Edited 6065d ago )

I am stunned by the sheer beauty of the graphics. The clothes actually look wet and heavy. The skin shaders are easily the best for in-game graphics. For example, you can easily see the subtle undulations on the wrists formed by tendons, veins and muscles or the lighting realistically shining off, as well as through, the skin. Amazing. Add to that the superb environmental textures and it's clear that there isn't a much that Naughty Dog needs to do to improve the engine for their next game. It's already at the top of the heap for this kind of game.

Tomb Raider? It was a good effort. You can see that they really put some thought into the design and it shows (although the person who designed the character models ought to be shot). Still, their technology is simply not in the same league as Naughty Dog's.

Doppy6065d ago

OK I just downloaded the Tomb Raider director trailer on PSN, and I have to say it looks A LOT BETTER than these pictures, the animations are incredible, the graphics are just as good as Uncharted but it had better vegetation, and the gun play is a lot better than previous Tomb Raiders and finally fills next gen.

But it did have problems and the game is releasing this month I believe. The framerate was OK, there was some minor but occasional slow down, and the enemies so far have been nothing but animals like tigers, and giant salamanders which still sucks, but I'm much more impressed by this game now, and Uncharted looks like it may have some competition from Lara this go round.

XxZxX6065d ago

skin texture, Lara model look like very plastic.
Easily go to Nathan.

sumguy816064d ago

both games look pretty bad.

not sure why you ppl hold uncharted to such high standards. it's one of the worst games i've played in the last year.

MaximusPrime6064d ago

Tomb Raider is a great game. i played all series since since Tomb Raider 1 (PS1).

Graphically, Uncharted wins.
Best storyline would be Tomb Raider.

slayorofgods6064d ago

Tomb Raider 1 - 3 were very innovative and graphically superior games. However, eventually the series compleatly sold out!! The game is now multiplatform including on P.C. to garentee that it will rake in the cash. However, this lowers the demand for graphic exellence and innovation and banks on the image of Laura Croft instead. With upcoming games like uncharted there is a high demand for graphic exellence and innovation to get the game noticed. This is why these games are looking better.

Alot of the continuing franchises are failing to deliver such as Silent Hill and Alone in the dark because the franchises become sell outs and forget why the games were once fun to play.

agentOFchaos6064d ago

true that!uncharted is just high above what this game is.imagine if it was made soley on the ps3.that would have been something.its too bad that they had to make it even with the 360 cause that piece of junk is holding back what could have been graphically equal with drake's fortune high end graphics.its a dang shame.

sumguy816064d ago

total fanboy comment. what do you know about the industry, game design, or development to make a ridiculous claim like that?

grow up

Rock Bottom6064d ago

Lara has the bigger boobs, other than that Uncharted wins every thing else.

Doppy6061d ago

I'm telling you download the trailer. The gameplay looks a lot better than you think. I don't know if it'll be as good as Uncharted, but it looks promising.

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hay6065d ago

I'll vote for Nate. I like more how the environment looks and protagonist have a lot more details in himself too. Lara looks like a doll. Plastic fantastic.
Although I didn't see much of TR in those low res pictures I didn't found such cool shaders in them as were in Uncharted. Wet Nate FTW! He'll always have a special place in my heart ; p

SaiyanFury6064d ago

Lara looks as good as always, and no doubt the new TR looks good overall, but I'd have to give the overall game nod to Uncharted. Graphics aside, Uncharted has the better gameplay. Similar in style, but Uncharted will most likely have the better gameplay engine. The duck and cover system in Uncharted makes the gunplay a lot of fun. The run and gun system in TR is somewhat dated. I'm not saying that Uncharted's gameplay is original or new, but it works and what's in the game definitely works and the game shows a lot of polish. Typical of Naughty Dog quality. I can't wait for the new Uncharted sequel as well as the upcoming Jak 4 on PS3.

Armageddon Knight6065d ago

Uncharted makes Tomb raider look like crap

JOLLY16065d ago

I just thought I would spoil the ending to this console war. I am glad i haven't got hit with the GoW ending, but now I have spoiled the ending of something for all of the whiney kids out there.

NickIni6065d ago (Edited 6065d ago )

Real gamers don't care about who will "win the console war", they want to play their games. There won't be a winner of the console war, neither side will admit defeat, and a different console will win in each person's mind.

If you were a gamer, you wouldn't care about the "winner of the console war" either. But evidentially, your not.

heyheyhey6065d ago

ouch.. i wouldn't say that if i were you JOLLY1... your asking for it

if i were you i wouldn't open any PM's.. not that Gears has a compelling story

JOLLY16065d ago

I got around $100 dollars in free swag. The backpack is rad.

aaron236064d ago

for x360 console war is over

2008 is the last year for x360 in console war
PS3 will beat x360 in WW sales this year too

but in 2009 it will be by massive margin
suka puka aka jolly the bastard

motherfuccer still thinks x360 has any chance in console war

ROFL

4m units advantage will soon be gone

ELite_Ghost6064d ago

lol a 1 year old game beats a game that's not even out! sad...

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dale16065d ago

plastic doll versus uncharted no comparison needed, doom raider doesn,t look close

thor6065d ago

You can barely see any difference between the games at the low resolution of the thumbnail pics.

BUT!!! You can clearly see that Uncharted is superior when you view them full-size!!

WOW!!

What's that? A lower resolution covers up artifacts? But I had 8 people disagree with me and 3 agree!!! Right here (Comment 2.2) -

http://www.n4g.com/gaming/N...

I said I AGREE that KZ2 looks great but that saying "It looks great even though it's low res" is WRONG. I KNOW that KZ2 looks good in hi-res, but in OTHER GAMES where there are INPERFECTIONS, the low-res COVERS UP THE FLAWS SO THE SCREENS LOOK BETTER.

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The Evil Within Deserved More: A Great Horror Series Left Behind

The Outerhaven writes: While I hold Bethesda's The Evil Within series as some of the best Survival Horror games available, it's clear that Bethesda has no intention of revisiting the series. While Capcom is still working on its Resident Evil series, I look back at the now-dead survival horror series from Bethesda, wondering why the series was left wide open, and yet still not revisited.

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SimpleSlave16h ago

An OK horror series left behind. It had some great ideas, but it never knew how to play to its strengths. Instead, it came out like just another RE4 clone.

I would love for a third entry to come out, but it needs to learn to lean in on the psychological aspect and move away from the generic "pew pew" ideology at the center of the gameplay loop. It doesn't need to abandon it; it just needs to put it into better context, is all.

Also, try a first-person perspective instead. Too many 3rd-person games with nothing to offer but an avatar taking precious screen space. At least make it an actual option and not that janky-ass mess the second game pretended to have.

Venoxn4g5h ago

Love both games, hope that we will get third game

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John Marston Voice Actor Teases "Exciting" Red Dead Redemption News

During a livestream on his personal Twitch channel, Rob Wiethoff (who voices John Marston in the Red Dead Redemption series) hinted at "exciting news" to be revealed next week. According to Wiethoff, the news will be announced "before Friday".

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jznrpg16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

PS5/Pro/Switch 2 version of RDR2 seems most likely. I’d love a RDR3 but that seems years away

Cacabunga15h ago

Id be happy for just a 60fps patch

OmegaSoldati14h ago(Edited 14h ago)

Agreed, but at the same time RD2 came out in 2018. Could it be a remake of Red Dead 1?

Spoiler:

Marston died in the end of Red Dead and Red Dead 2 is set before that. Im curious now. What news could it be?

mkis0077h ago

I'm pretty sure the next game will be another prequel as the story really has no where to go as far as being a western after red dead redemption. The next game will end with the ferry boat incident.

Profchaos16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

Their contracts are iron clas if they leak anything legit they are threatened with immense legal action.

My hopes for what this is are minimal its probably a meet and greet with the cast

I dont see why they would be involved in a upgraded version of rdr2 when the dialogue hasn't changed

thorstein13h ago

He seems to have been cleared to do this as he purposely picked up the game, streamed it, and made the announcement.

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The Real Enemy of Gaming Isn’t DEI. It’s the CEO

From Horse Armor to Mass Layoffs: The Price of Greed in Gaming. Inside the decades-long war on game workers and the players who defend them.

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jambola6d ago

maybe a real enemy is people who use terms like "the real enemy"
there can be more than 1 bad thing, t's not like a kids show with 1 big bad

senorfartcushion4d ago

This is very much a “dummy who volunteers themselves to the middle” comment.

The real enemy is a common phrase, people use it all the time.

Calm down.

jambola4d ago

i'm very calm
you seem very upset however

Notellin4d ago

You don't seem calm at all. Don't take this so seriously, you seem desperate responding to others defending your opinion that lacks any value or critical thought.

jambola4d ago

stop projecting
i'm not desperately dong anything, i'm tapping at keys on my keyboard bud

PapaBop4d ago

It's not like kids show with one bad guy? I present to you.. Bobby Kotick

ABizzel14d ago (Edited 4d ago )

DEI was never the problem and it was an ignorant take to begin with.

DEI is why games like Kena Bridge of Spirits, South of Midnight, and Ghost of Tsushima exist.

DEI is why we have a huge resurgence in Japanese, Chineses, and Korean developers producing games like Stellar Blade, Black Myth, and why Nintendo & Sony exist.

DEI is why more and more games have HUGE accessibility options with both Sony and MS fully behind this.

DEI was never a bad thing, the entire purpose of DEI is representation of all people, genders, disabilities, etc…

The problem was people used DEI as a default derogatory term to describe what they believed was forced representation, which allowed colorist, racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, and xenophobic fools to run away with the negative DEI narrative.

jambola3d ago

you don't get to decide other people's motivations
sorry to break it to you

ABizzel12d ago (Edited 2d ago )

To each their own, however, nothing you said invalidates why some people take offense to DEI incorrectly.

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Sciurus_vulgaris6d ago

Executives seem to often have an obsession with perpetual revenue growth. There is always a finite amount of consumers for a product regardless of growth. Additionally, over investment is another serious issue in gaming.

Killer2020UK4d ago

The fact that they also rarely have any real expertise in game development compounds things. They'll look at what's been successful elsewhere, lack the knowledge to properly understand why they have been successful and then force a team to 'reproduce' their badly interpreted idea of that success.

We see it so often with sequels to games that were successful too. The team are left well alone, they have a break through hit and all of sudden the money men descend on the IP and completely railroad the dev team's ideas. Usually winds up being 'make the same game but MORE'

LoveSpuds4d ago

This is true throughout all of the corporate and public sector organisations to be honest. CEO's generally move amongst the corporate world without any need to have experience of a particular industry, they simply need to rely on their senior leadership credentials. A CEO of a retail giant will just as easily transition to a CEO role in the energy sector for example.

Not defending CEOs here to be clear, I think it's a huge part of the reason the western world is so fucked up. CEOs don't need to care about the sector they work in, in fact it's better if they don't care if they want to screw everyone to make profits.

GhostScholar4d ago

Companies don’t hire executives to break even. If the goal is breaking even then why start the company in the first place.

Soy4d ago

That's understood; it's getting record profits and expecting to always beat those record profits, and seeing anything less as a total failure. Then they lay people off and raise prices to reach those record profit levels again, just to sate shareholders. It's setting expectations way too high just to spike share prices, then inevitably falling short. It's feeling entitled to being more successful than everyone else. It's the CEOs doing all this to boost their own bonuses.

ABizzel14d ago

Growth benefits the company’s profits and therefore the company’s stock if publicly traded, which pleases the shareholders making them more and more rich, which is why Growth is always at the forefront of the vast majority of any publicly traded company.

More growth = More Money and the people at the top want all the money they can get. I can’t really blame them anyone would love to see their profits go from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, to multi-millions it’s almost like a gambling addiction.

But it also goes to show someone how morals can go out the window for a lot of these people, and how amazing some CEOs are when they catch this early and provide a balance solution that takes complete care of their employees across the board while keeping the business sustainable IE: Insomniac Games ALWAYS on the best places to work list. The rest of the industry could learn.

jambola6d ago

honestly, the "real" enemy of gaming, is ourselves
if nobody bought horse armor, shitty dlc would have died almost overnight
if we stood firm and nobody bought games from companies that were bad with layoffs, it would be solved
we're the idiots supporting awful business practices, we are the ones enouraging it

TiredGamer4d ago

I think the reality that we don't want to convince ourselves of is that without the rise of "horse armor" and DLC, game budgets would have essentially stagnated (smaller teams/smaller games), or game prices would have risen much more dramatically than they have. There was an incessant drive for bigger worlds, infinite detail, and hundreds of hours of "gameplay" over the last two decades, that while perhaps a natural evolution of things, needed a suitable funding stream to accomplish.

HyperMoused4d ago

What...CEOs make tens of millions and that doesnt include SLT etc etc...we now have multiple editions of games, in game currency, MT's, battle passes.....and what do we get..worse game than what was coming out 20 years ago....dont drink the cool aid, its this nickel and dime crap that is absolutely leading us to gaming destruction.

senorfartcushion4d ago

This is the worst possible answer to this conundrum. Blaming the masses is blaming the only people who are constantly “told” to buy.

Consumers are the only ones not to blame here. People make their own choices all the time. Disney movies are bombing and DEInis being blamed. Has that been enough to put Disney out of business? No and it never will.

Christopher4d ago

Disagree. Businesses are able to do what they do because people are bad consumers and don't think critically about purchases. Disney got away with doing shit stuff for years and it's just the last year where people got tired of it. It's not like it didn't work for 5 years or so for Disney to do the things they've done. They'll just move onto another way to get people to see movies and it will be just as bad but more profitable until people wake up and realize it.

TiredGamer4d ago

Consumerism drives business behavior. It's not so much "blaming" as it is observing behavior. The point I'm making is that the direction that games have gone are driven by the spending. Consumers are spending on DLC and they are driving the expectation of more glitz and padded out (lengthier) games. If they continue to pay, they will continue to drive that direction until a threshold is reached that forces a change in behavior.

senorfartcushion4d ago

Corporate advertising is the most powerful force on the planet.

This is N4G for god sake, every day there are arguments between people who are Team Xbox and Team PlayStation because they’ve been convinced that having an identity built on paying money to Sony and Microsoft matters more than having one as individual gamers who can play whatever they want.

And THEN we get to the corporate advertising part: to play whatever you want is to sink MORE into the advertising pits, making it so that you can more than one specific product.

jambola4d ago

ah you're right
they were told to buy it, it's clearly impossible to avoid that
if enough people stopped supporting, it would stop
disney not stopping would only be because enough people didn't stop

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victorMaje4d ago

Agreed. I’ve been saying for years, announce you won’t be buying the upcoming game because of the practices of the previous game, then you only have to stick to your guns once, see how quickly things change for the better.

We have to unite in what we shouldn’t purchase.

jambola4d ago

just imagine a world, fifa came out worse, nobody buys the next one until they see proof it's better and stick to it
or games being forced online for single player and nobody buys it
things would change so fast

HyperMoused4d ago

Just like scooby doo, you have shown us the real monsters are us

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Inverno4d ago

Greed and greedy people have and always will be the main issue for everything wrong in the world. Everything is a product to be exploited for monetary gain. Even when there are things that could help progress us along for the sake of making our lives easier that thing must be exploited for monetary gains. Anything that tells you otherwise is propaganda to make you complicit.

coolfool4d ago

I've never thought "DEI" (although the way most people use it doesn't match it's real definition) is the problem with games. Good games have continued to be good when they have a diverse cast, and likewise, bad games have continued to be bad. There isn't a credible example I've seen where a diverse cast has been the direct cause of a game being bad.

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