One unbelievable sharp screenshot of Final Fantasy XIII

We have to wait till 2008 before we can play Final Fantasy XIII, but Square Enix released one brand new screenshot of the game. This screenshot is unbelievable sharp and you can really count the hairs of Lighting (the main character of Final Fantasy XIII)

[power of Green]

Holly Sh*T!!! that's looking great/badass!!!!.

[NoUseMerc]

The game looks great but this screen is old.

[Shadow Flare]

power of green took the words out my mouth

crikey mate! Im so hoping this game is incredible. That's a frickin awesome screenshot. That screenshot even on some levels beats Advent Children graphically

[Drew]

Bullshots, anyone?

I don't doubt that it'll look great, but that great? No way that's a screencap.

Edit:

No way that's a screencap of an in-game scene. My money is on a screencap of a pre-rendered scene, because lord knows that's what Squeenix likes to do.

[techie]

In-game footage SHOULD look like that now - or will do in this generation. Nextgen systems have the ability to render hair like that on the fly - especially the ps3 with its spu's making alculations for the movement of little things like that - can see it with Heavenly Sword...but certainly not that good. We'll see.

Oh and as you can see in Advent Children screen - it's much easier to animate hair that's got some product in it cause theres less hairs to calculate, as they can move together. lol

[Bullseye]

I think your comments are way off on this one. In game of this quality,in this generation of consoles. Naah. Maybe, just maybe, on leading edge graphic PC's. Our consoles are not really that powerful in reality.Nice pic though.Of course i could be wrong, but i don't think so on this occasion.

[power of Green]

Your probably right that's what the PS3 will be good at(I have always said that), but i also believe that PS3 will be able to pull off canned animation close to this pic. If Sony uses this graphical short cut it won't make any differnce to the average consumers if PS3 is able to peice in Movies and good graphics Blu-ray's going to give PS3 it's own personal flavor with Movie and gamplay mix and obivouslly be the bread winner for PS3.

It's the only hope for PS3 mixing Advent Children like story telling that PS fans like anyways(taste in this Japanese style) Cut scene or not the PS3 has the space to take advantage of this. It looks good non the less.

Heavenly Sword hair lol,

[techie]

What about Heavenly Sword hair!? Il admi its artistic - but we haven't seen that kind of flowing hair in in-game before - seriously the amoun of calculating to make that happen is immense.

[THE TERMINATOR]

If thats ingame then Ps3 has won the console war. I have never seen graphics like that before not even crysis can match that! We will just have to wait and see. I hope it is.

[power of Green]

Crysis is an action game and not in the canned animamation genre meaning; crysis is not half movie or more; like FF & Lost Oddyessy.

[InMyOpinion]

Since Sony are'nt number one in any department regarding next gen consoles (and games) I guess that makes them the clear winner.

Logic thinking is'nt for everyone.

[Shadow Flare]

did you hear Crysis may be heading its way to the ps3?

"Although Crytek mentioned more than once that the current consoles would not be able to handle Crysis, it does not make sense of the fact that at one point, they were looking for ps3 programmers. On their website, Crytek states the responsibilities of the said job.

• Development of a Next-Generation Game Framework based on CryEngine 2.0.
• Work on various aspects of porting to PS3 and creating solutions to get the utmost out of the PS3"

http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...

[Monchichi025]

You Sony fanboys are so amusing!!!! You STILL believe every word Sony says! (We all know Square is in bed with Sony) But from the progress Sony has shown, this is easily a NOT ingame footage.

And another thing, who ever said better graphics win console wars??? Nintendo Wii anybody?? Know what your talking about before saying dumb comments.

[InMyOpinion]

Ps3 fanboys will probably believe it's ingame graphics. I thought you learned something from the Killzone 2 and Motorstorm trailer. Guess I was wrong...

[JasonXE]

Everything in game looks better than how it's actually a post to be. The GOW promotional comerical is ingame but looks better than the actually game. I would like to see how the actual game looks like but should look good.

[darx]

I'll be hitting the X button to skip past those screens.

[power of Green]

Sorry about that i'V never really seen the flow/physics of the Ninjas hair I made that comment because of the art style(clumps or globs they call her hair).

#23.1 I dissagree Developers will get dam close to what's in that pic, here are some first gen pics figurtivly speaking(started development on knew and unknown hardware). http://screenshots.teamxbox...
http://screenshots.teamxbox...
http://screenshots.teamxbox...

Remember The pic of FF has an Anime cartoonish style and it's probable a cutscene pic but i think we'll see games later on, on the two powerful console's looking close to the pic. The pics are ingame that i provided put still proof of these console's capabilities in one way or the other.

Hair on the other hand might be a differnt issue.

I GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR "MASS EFFECT 3" AND OTHERS TO FIND OUT IF I'M TALKING OUT OF MY ASS.

[techie]

Yes hair is the problem. As you can see in Mass Effect the characters either have a shaved head, or their hair is cropped.

I'm sure hair can LOOK like his picture, but whether it will MOVE like is implied in the picture is another question - I think it'll be less flowing than that - otherwise the face and detail in the clothes is very possible (if not done already) this generation.

[TheGoodMART]

But it's probably not real, I don't want to get my hopes high because there is a really good chance the game does not look like that and if i get disappointed i wont enjoy the game as much!

[kingboy]

just another shot of a pre-rendered scene

[ApocalypseShadow]

just look at the last ffs to judge.even the movies.square is going to surprise people just like some other companies.when you look at mass effect,the detail of the characters and their faces is uncanny.even heavy rain had detail for animation.but this could be from a reatime story sequence.which always looks good from them without having to resort to cg.their cg is great,but the characters in ffx were just as good if not better than some shenmue characters.

when i look at the trailer again,the cg looks diffent.her hair looks slightly pink,and the in game character looks more like what we see in front on us.can't wait for the next trailer or demo.

i would say,go back and watch the ffvii tech demo that square did for e3.look at cloud's hair and eyes.the trailer wasn't playable but it wasn't cg graphics.this is final hardware.i know they are capable of doing this.

[Kastrol]

The E3 trailer for ff XIII had in game footage so watch the trailer as the in game footage was just like the trailer

cut scene and videos are always gonna look better then the game
I remember playing onimusha 3 the starting cut scene was so good i started the game disapointed (still was a great game though)

developers should always take MGS approach so not to disapoint

[Drew]

Just like how Killzone and Motorstorm and everything else at E3 was "in-game", eh?

[Captain Tuttle]

At BEST it's a still from one of those 10 minute in game movies that waste space.

[MissAubrey]

its just cg. you got my hopes up for nuthin.

[MaximusPrime]

Grrreeeeat.
Another great final fantasy EXCLUSIVELY for PS3. woooo.

Thanks for that great screenshot. ;)

[THAMMER1]

Looks great but we all can tell it is CG. Only the bottom feeders will claim this is in game. Still looks good for a turn base metro sexual RPG.

[Sashy]

Ehm.. someone ? CGI ?