Barozi said: Empire does a good job on the technical side, but visually it's just not in the top 50. While Stalker Clear Sky has good effects, it's virtually unplayable. I've never seen such bad optimization. And personally I think the game looks rather boring and except for the effects not impressive at all. |
Of course you can get better looking textures on an individual character in simpler games, but the amount of units and effects that can occur simutaniously in Empire TW is what is truly impressive. If everyone of these units had textures the same quality as Killzone you would need greater than 4GB of video RAM. I have played E:TW on my PC, and there is truly no match on consoles in terms of technical achievements, but I will agree that closed corridor FPS games will "appear" more impressive with the amazing texture work.
I have not really looked at this game very closely, but X3: Terran Conflict is also a very impressive looking game. And it certianly looks like it could have the polish to look that impressive.
http://www.pcgamefuntime.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/x3_terran_conflict.jpg