UE3 tech demo: now in direct-feed

Snoopers
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 | 5:26 PM
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Xbox 360

The technological demonstration of the upgraded Unreal Engine 3, which will be used in Gears of War 2, and which was unveiled during the San Francisco GDC is finally available in all its 720p direct-feed glory. Superb.
Update: Behind-the-scenes video of the GDC presentation added.

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Tech demo - Direct-feed

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Behind the scenes GDC

skinedd

Commented on 2008-03-25 21:19:09 In reply to Viginti_Tres

Posted by Viginti_Tres

For me it's more like 2.8kB/s. It's really slow since quite a few weeks. Same with the streams, they take a whole hour to load. And my connection is good, don't have these problems anywhere else. Server #5 lets me download at ~500kB/sec.

btw: I can't play the file on WMP and VLC doesn't work either.

wat speed connection have you got homie?

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Tinks

Commented on 2008-03-25 22:47:55

Colors are a style choice and a popular trend
This generation has these color schemes, deal with it.
Same thing happens in film and anything else so deeply rooted in pop culture

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barbasol

Commented on 2008-03-25 23:04:53 In reply to Snoopers

Posted by Snoopers

There's a bug with the files descriptions but the videos should be fine, aren't they ?

Actually both VLC and QuickTime Player are showing the Behind the Scenes mp4 as actually 5120 wide. It plays fine resized though. Still downloading the Tech demo as a torrent so not sure about it yet.

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Sath

Commented on 2008-03-25 23:06:27 In reply to dcdelgado

Posted by dcdelgado

I don't dislike Gears of War's colorscheme whatsoever (I have the Collectors Edition), hell I could even keep watching it for for a few hours and not get bored with it.
I am all for the gritty dark type of games, I love them. Just feels more like a post apocalyptic type of environment which I like.

But MGS has more white/blue/grey colorscheme, but Killzone and Gears is more gritty with brown and grey. This new MGS4 has moreof that yellowish brown and it not gritty.
It's pretty much the same type you see in Black Hawk Down, its all yellow, brown filters..etc.

And you know me DC, I have never stopped embracing some cool games when they have the girttyness and dark type of games, I like them...in sci-fi shooters.

And yes Gears of War has some cool lush environments which was very nice, just to hope to see the same mix of gritty and colorful environment in Gears 2.

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thextreme1

Commented on 2008-03-25 23:36:31 In reply to synce

Posted by synce

When it comes to grey and brown, nobody does it better than Epic.

Hahaha. So true.

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Jato

Commented on 2008-03-25 23:55:47

Haha, poor Sweeney! He's a nervous wreck! Cool presentation and tech though, just wish they'd work on those horrible animations.

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ganonshin

Commented on 2008-03-26 00:22:11

ok so what do people here actually thing about the two videos?

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waldopepper

Commented on 2008-03-26 00:40:33

^ Good point, get back on topic!

Looks great - the large body water ripple fluid body demo was earily realistic - especially the metallic ball thing. Destructible environments looks like a blast - I wonder how much it can change the path through each level.

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gmulis

Commented on 2008-03-26 04:03:57

i hope they improve on the soundtrack of the game. most of the songs don't give a sense of being hopeless in post apocalyptic world... should learn from the 28 days later soundtracks

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GriftGFX

Commented on 2008-03-26 04:10:49 In reply to ganonshin

Posted by ganonshin

ok so what do people here actually thing about the two videos?

That they'd be much better with a rainbow/pastel filter applied apparently.

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sarias

Commented on 2008-03-26 08:07:44 In reply to GriftGFX

Posted by GriftGFX

That they'd be much better with a rainbow/pastel filter applied apparently.

Haha, a good one, big Gay Al would be happy. It's probably gonna look great, but somehow I'm not that excited about gears2.. Maybe it will come later on...

Just noticed that the same ppl nag and get siderailed in every comments..

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Getpwned

Commented on 2008-03-26 09:41:27 In reply to KORNdog

Posted by KORNdog

MGS4 is actually beige...it WAS green about 2 years ago (where the hell have you been), but then they ditched the filter and left it beige, just like all modern warfare games from cod4 to GRAW.

what i dont like about gears, which sath hinted at, is the fact they still only use grey and brown despite being a completely unrealistic world and setting. it could go crazy but it doesnt (although i'd rather they stay away from halo like crazy where it looks like some kids toy box has exploded). MGS4 so far is the middle east. it looks like that in real life. beige with the odd bity of colour every now and then. and comparing killzone is kinda strange considering we've seen what? one level, hardly enough to base an opinion on. we've already been told there will be different settings, but we'll see. i agree with synce for once tho. no-one does grey/brown quite like epic. they base their whole artstyle around it. well, that and the giant feet and armour with small heads.

Still pretending you're not a Sony fanboy, I see.

Do you not read what you type before hit submit? You just knocked Epic, one of the greatest devs in the world, for doing the very thing you just excused other, crappier, devs for doing on your beloved PS3.

First you Sony fanboys claim Gears is too brown and grey, but then you knock Halo for NOT being brown and grey enough. Then you claim EARTHLY tones are NOT realistic in a ruined Earthly environment, such as Sera in Gears? Are you kidding me? And for your information, the game has plenty of other lush environments. It's not Epic's fault CONCRETE happens to be grey. Maybe you should talk to god about that one. Try playing the game before embarrassing yourself anymore than you already have. Then you try excusing Killzone 2 for the same thing? Wow. I don't think anyone around here will be listening to you anymore. I mean, come on, you're an embarrassment. Even in the other thread you claim Gears looks blurry close-up. LOL. GEARS? REALLY?? You mean one of the greatest-looking games ever made? That one? The one with the insanely hirez shader details, even up close? Oh, right. That one. At least you don't have to be a closet fanboy anymore. It's out in the open now. You should feel relieved!

Get busted ;)

You know this game is good when all the fanboys gather around making garbage up to knock it, meanwhile defending something like MGS4, which , sorry, looks like crap compared to Gears. I'm sure we all remember Kojima praising Gears saying he wishes MGS4 could look like that. As great as the game will be, well, someone needs to tell him he failed miserably. And that's the truth. No fanboy here. I enjoy all platforms.

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[quote=KORNdog]

MGS4 is actually beige...it WAS green about 2 years ago (where the hell have you been), but then they ditched the filter and left it beige, just like all modern warfare games from cod4 to GRAW.

what i dont like about gears, which sath hinted at, is the fact they still only use grey and brown despite being a completely unrealistic world and setting. it could go crazy but it doesnt (although i'd rather they stay away from halo like crazy where it looks like some kids toy box has exploded). MGS4 so far is the middle east. it looks like that in real life. beige with the odd bity of colour every now and then. and comparing killzone is kinda strange considering we've seen what? one level, hardly enough to base an opinion on. we've already been told there will be different settings, but we'll see. i agree with synce for once tho. no-one does grey/brown quite like epic. they base their whole artstyle around it. well, that and the giant feet and armour with small heads.[/quote]

Still pretending you're not a Sony fanboy, I see.

Do you not read what you type before hit submit? You just knocked Epic, one of the greatest devs in the world, for doing the very thing you just excused other, crappier, devs for doing on your beloved PS3.

First you Sony fanboys claim Gears is too brown and grey, but then you knock Halo for NOT being brown and grey enough. Then you claim EARTHLY tones are NOT realistic in a ruined Earthly environment, such as Sera in Gears? Are you kidding me? And for your information, the game has plenty of other lush environments. It's not Epic's fault CONCRETE happens to be grey. Maybe you should talk to god about that one. Try playing the game before embarrassing yourself anymore than you already have. Then you try excusing Killzone 2 for the same thing? Wow. I don't think anyone around here will be listening to you anymore. I mean, come on, you're an embarrassment. Even in the other thread you claim Gears looks blurry close-up. LOL. GEARS? REALLY?? You mean one of the greatest-looking games ever made? That one? The one with the insanely hirez shader details, even up close? Oh, right. That one. At least you don't have to be a closet fanboy anymore. It's out in the open now. You should feel relieved!

Get busted ;)

You know this game is good when all the fanboys gather around making garbage up to knock it, meanwhile defending something like MGS4, which , sorry, looks like crap compared to Gears. I'm sure we all remember Kojima praising Gears saying he wishes MGS4 could look like that. As great as the game will be, well, someone needs to tell him he failed miserably. And that's the truth. No fanboy here. I enjoy all platforms.

Majinme

Commented on 2008-03-26 11:05:54

I give up. The wmv doesnt work, even on vlc. MP4 is streched out to ridiculous proportions and avi same only more ridiculous.

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GriftGFX

Commented on 2008-03-26 11:06:36

Still pretending you're not a Sony fanboy, I see.

...

No fanboy here. I enjoy all platforms.

There is a laughable amount of pots calling out kettles all over the news page. This needs to stop or some people are going to be going on long vacations. The trolling, and the back and forth bickering here is simply out of hand.

If you're daft enough not to know who I'm talking to (because it's not just Getpwned) than you don't deserve a better warning than that.

Stop.

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Inflatable

Commented on 2008-03-26 20:26:32 In reply to Viginti_Tres

Posted by Viginti_Tres

Do a traceroute to media9.xboxyde.com then and see what it says.. Here's mine:

Bezig met het traceren van de route naar xboxyde.pool.ookoo.org [91.121.55.91]
via maximaal 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms 5 ms 172.23.161.170
2 3 ms <1 ms 7 ms 172.23.161.169
3 4 ms <1 ms 6 ms 172.23.161.165
4 2 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.23.161.161
5 1 ms <1 ms 4 ms 172.23.161.157
6 4 ms 1 ms 4 ms 10.254.3.38
7 2 ms <1 ms 5 ms 10.254.3.38
8 1 ms 5 ms 1 ms 10ge1-1.newxr1.nik-asd.internl.net [217.149.196.45]
9 8 ms * 8 ms amsix.routers.ovh.net [195.69.145.231]
10 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms rbx-33-m1.routers.ovh.net [213.251.191.94]
11 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms mail.ookoo.org [91.121.55.91]

It has to be your connection to that particulary server, because I (and others) get good speeds of it, so it's not the server that's the problem.. That you have no problems on other sites etc means nothing since the inernet is a very complex network made up of countless connectionroutes to countless different networks and servers etc, it could well be you only have a problem connecting to that one particular server/network..

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[quote=Viginti_Tres]

For me it's more like 2.8kB/s. It's really slow since quite a few weeks. Same with the streams, they take a whole hour to load. And my connection is good, don't have these problems anywhere else. Server #5 lets me download at ~500kB/sec.[/quote]Do a traceroute to [b]media9.xboxyde.com[/b] then and see what it says.. Here's mine:

Bezig met het traceren van de route naar xboxyde.pool.ookoo.org [91.121.55.91]
via maximaal 30 hops:

1   <1 ms   <1 ms     5 ms  172.23.161.170
  2     3 ms   <1 ms     7 ms  172.23.161.169
  3     4 ms   <1 ms     6 ms  172.23.161.165
  4     2 ms   <1 ms   <1 ms  172.23.161.161
  5     1 ms   <1 ms     4 ms  172.23.161.157
  6     4 ms     1 ms     4 ms  10.254.3.38
  7     2 ms   <1 ms     5 ms  10.254.3.38
  8     1 ms     5 ms     1 ms  10ge1-1.newxr1.nik-asd.internl.net [217.149.196.45]
  9     8 ms     *        8 ms  amsix.routers.ovh.net [195.69.145.231]
 10     7 ms     6 ms     6 ms  rbx-33-m1.routers.ovh.net [213.251.191.94]
 11     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  mail.ookoo.org [91.121.55.91]

It has to be your connection to that particulary server, because I (and others) get good speeds of it, so it's not the server that's the problem.. That you have no problems on other sites etc means nothing since the inernet is a very complex network made up of countless connectionroutes to countless different networks and servers etc, it could well be you only have a problem connecting to that one particular server/network..

Getpwned

Commented on 2008-03-26 21:39:38 In reply to GriftGFX

Posted by GriftGFX

Still pretending you're not a Sony fanboy, I see.

...

No fanboy here. I enjoy all platforms.

Sorry, Grift. I just can't stand rampant ignorance. I'll try my best to ignore it.

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Ishigami

Commented on 2008-03-27 00:18:38

Nice improvements.

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FrostFox

Commented on 2008-03-28 23:58:01

Why these dang Videos dont work for me??? i can never see them whats wrong with them..

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PlumbDrumb

Commented on 2008-03-29 00:02:26

Posted by FrostFox

Why these dang Videos dont work for me??? i can never see them whats wrong with them..

well, the streams seem to have been taken offline (that little message under the video), but the others download so slow these days I don't even bother.

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