Xbox 2 Game Trailer

EvilAvatar has word via a forum of a Trailer for an Xbox 2 video game called War-Devil. Our first look at what Microsoft's next-next generation console can do looks pretty good.

Re:Yes

[hunterx11]

Perhaps true, but the trailer graphics were no better than the game graphics. In fact the graphics for the cutscenes are worse than the game graphics because of all the popup :)

Re:Yes

[MBraynard]

Can you name some of the things that aren't there? I don't rember anything being overpromised except for maybe the release date being pushed back some.

I'll believe it when I can hold it my hands.

[LordNimon]

Until then, it's just vaporware.

Re:I'll believe it when I can hold it my hands.

[cheeseSource]

Taking it at face value: It looks good but not as good as it I'd expected considering what the leap in graphics "should" be.

Good Lord!

[samael]

A trailer for a video game has excellent graphics! Who's have thought it?

What's that? The in-game graphics might not be as good?

The advert might have been created on a render-farm?

They've been doing this kind of thing for years?

Tell me it's not true!

(oh, and the plot looked terrible)

Re:Good Lord!

[Moustache N Tits]

(oh, and the plot looked terrible)

you were able to get a plot out of that? I watched in 10 times (trying to find the xbox2 rendered section) and couldn't get ANY basic plot.. I guess it's some guy who's fighting off a teranical overlords?... how original!

Re:Conflicted

[wed128]

they have wireless cards/ap's...

Re:Conflicted

[Akaihiryuu]

Not everyone thinks that. I personally will never own an Xbox or Xbox 2, regardless of which games are made for it, simply because it's Microsoft...even if someone gave me one for free, I'd sell it. I currently have a PS2, plus every Nintendo and Sega console going back to the 8-bit ones, and I plan on getting both a PS3 and whatever Nintendo calls their next system. I've passed on good games before, just because they're Xbox. I was a huge Panzer Dragoon fan, I have all 3 Saturn games, but I won't play

Re:Conflicted

[zero_offset]

You don't know much about the Sony corporation, do you?
Microsoft is a fucking big-eyed kitten by comparison.

Re:Conflicted

[xero314]

No conflict for me. MS Hardware, as you put it, seems to be moderate at best. And worse than the quality of their products is their complete lack of originality. I mean the PS2, like it or hate it, is a peice of creative genius. Wether you think the final out come of the PS2 is good or not you have to admit the concept of high through put no caching, in conjunction with multiple general purpose vector (matrix actually) processors is way above and beyond anything being done by MS. But if the rumors hold

Re:Conflicted

[mausmalone]

Last time I checked, Xbox had way better specs than the PS2.

Owing totally to the fact that it's newer, and that Microsoft loses a ton of money every time they sell one. Not only that, but the X-Box doesn't have nearly the polygon draw rate nor the pixel fill rate that they report. Even if the graphics card were capible of such a thing (and it's not), the system bus doesn't have the bandwidth to transmit that much vertex data to it.

Programming on the PS2 is a complicated mess because of their vector pro

Re:Conflicted

[xero314]

Allow me to list just a few of the original games that have been released for the PS2 in america and over seas.

1. Katamari Damacy
2. Culdcept
3. Dark Cloud
4. Robot Alchemic Drive
5. ICO
6. Frequency
7. Chulip
8. Okami

I think you can get the point from there. And that's not listing the titles that are an original twist on an old idea, such as Disgae.
As for Normal Mapping on a PS2 check ot this link http://ps2dev.org/kb.x?T=1098 [ps2dev.org] which has a doucment all about how to achive normal mapping.
Oh and though I tried I could not fi

Re:Conflicted

[Toddarooski]

No, I think the trick to understanding why Slashdot can like the Xbox but hate Windows is in seeing evil as a relative thing, not an absolute thing.

In other words...

Microsoft compared to Linus Torvalds = evil

Microsoft compared to Sony and Nintendo = good (or, at least, less evil)

Blizzard compared to geeks wanting to write free Battlenet servers = evil

Blizzard compared to SOE = good

Re:*yawn*

[Hedonist23]

I love the guy who replies to himself twice to say that he hasn't seen the video yet, but it most assuredly will suck. No matter what. Gauranteed. Thanks for your input.

Re:*yawn*

[MilenCent]

You don't have to see the demo to know it'll suck. You just have to hear the name, which typically tips you off as to what audiences the developers are going for, to see. This is true in surprisingly many cases.

Re:*yawn*

[Iamdeusex]

He's right; I judge books by their covers all the time. I only read pretty books.

Needs a torrent.

[St. Arbirix]

Someone set up a torrent to the Quicktime fast. I'm downloading it from the server and pieces of it are singed.

I don't know about you guys...

[sycotic]

...but that link seems to be a bit hosed so I couldn't even find the link to the trailer :(

After a wee bit of googling I figured this is it though [gametrailers.com]

Re:I don't know about you guys...

[forkazoo]

Even less googling turns up wardevil.com Unfortunately, the site seems to be acting screwy, so I guess I'm not the first person to think that probably should have been mentioned in the write-up. Thanks to the site being funky, I still haven't even figured out what *type* of game it is... Or, do we just assume FPS these days?

ooohhh wow

[Ender Ryan]

Wow, the next Xbox will be able to play FMV. Amazing. Maybe next they'll add DVD playback capability, sure must require some really beefy hardware for something like that.

Re:ooohhh wow

[mausmalone]

I don't know... have you ever watched a trailer from an XBN disc? Perhaps FMV playback is a harder proposition for MS than previously imagined.

In Game Graphics

[orion024]

Sure, the trailer was pretty. But games have had pretty cinema scenes for a long time now. The real question will be what does the *ingame* graphics look like? This of course what be known for some time, I expect.

Trailer available from developer's game site

[Anonymous Coward]

You can download the trailer/get more info from the developer's craptastic Flash site for the game: www.wardevil.com. [wardevil.com]

The trailer shows absolutely nothing

[mike_lynn]

This is a 100% pre-rendered advertisement for a product that doesn't exist yet. No clips of rendering from actual XBox 2 hardware, just pure unadulterated movie scenes.

*yawn* Wake me when someone's got real footage.

And for those that don't want to wait for the forum to load, go here: http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_wardevil.ht ml [gametrailers.com]

Re:The trailer shows absolutely nothing

[Arivia]

Pick up issue 138 of Game Informer for screenshots of The Elder Scrolls:Oblivion running on an Xbox 2 or an Xbox 2 dev kit, I forget which. Better than this, at least.

I may be wrong but I believe that

[Polarism]

all of the media for Oblivion so far is proof of concept and tech demos, nothing that actually was produced for or that was shown running on Xbox 2 hardware. Not to mention i'm pretty sure it was all concept stuff for the PC anyway.

If only

[Gewis]

If only those graphics weren't pre-rendered, and that was all in-game stuff. Hey, you know, maybe that's what it really is, eh? Please? Please?

an oldie but a goodie...

[sociald]

I for one welcome our new Unholy Overlords

ahhgahgahgahgahgah

did i miss the small print?

[bigbigbison]

Is there ANYTHING in that trailer that says what platform it is coming out on? Looks like another 100% pure speculation passed off as a "scoop" from here.

Sigh..

[oprahjesserafael]

Does even the lowest common denomenator twelve year old INTRAAWEB FFOOURUM poster fall for this kind of thing? For all we know, this could be running on a Turbo Duo, not that it makes any difference anyway.

Re:Sigh..

[mink]

It's good to see this kind of development on the DUO .
The last new game we got for it was that puzzle game I can only find at Lik-Sang.

Re:Sigh..

[mink]

I didnt realize they still existed. cool.

Hey this looks familiar...

[Crimsane]

Oh yea, i saw it before in theaters when it was called the chronicles of riddick.

Is it just me...

[tm2b]

Or does that game look like a big Chronicles of Riddick ripoff, setting-wise?

Not an example of X Box 2 graphics

[snuf23]

This is a nice pre-rendered CGI trailer. Read the information on the developers site. These are million plus polygon characters that show the overall look they are trying to achieve. There are some screenshots on the site but even these are listed as works in progress. They only show some architecture and working lower res models.

omg

[Anonymous Coward]

M3G4T0n...11!1

I eagerly await Peter Moore's next tattoo.

Xenon February 14 2005!

Real-Time renders?

[Mechcommander]

Well, I've been looking around at the official site, (Flash-based.. Eugh!) and it seems that they have some screenies taken directly from the in-game level available for you to look at. Not amazingly impressive, but definetely an upgrade to current consoles. Check them out at the official site.

Not really.

[Kinryuu]

Our first look at what Microsoft's next-next generation console can do

Um. No. [elderscrolls.com]

Vapor... & not an X-box 2 game

[Foo2rama]

I smell vapor ware.. the site was first created in June 2003... The entire trailer was rendered... The website makes no reference to platform. And they appear to be making a film also at the same time. http://digi-guys.com/ is the parent site, and it is even more sketchy. The appear to be a 3d animation firm, that has not done any work, but they seem to have alot of toys and are very well funded judgeing from there gallery and facilities page. I will give them this though, they have some talented mode