Impressive new Killzone 2 beta shots showing off the textures...

[Gnosis]

MikeB said:

Gnosis said:
The second picture made me exclaim out loud in amazement. Really, that is amazing! Really amazing. I wonder how much of the PS3s power they're actually using. I mean Developers always say they're using 100% of the consoles power, and then with their next game they say it again and it looks better.

 

Insomniac and Naughty Dog have been remarkably honest and forthcoming in this regard. Guerilla's data seems to suggest they may be using over half of the available SPE power + PPE/GPU and they make good use of Blu-Ray disc (including lossless 7.1 audio). But they have enough SPE headroom to grow further and there are endless (assembly) oppertunities for code optimisation (like 360 launch games already tapped over 80% of available CPU resources).

 

Well that's good to know. It gives me something to look forward into in the future. It will be interesting to see how far they can push the system, and in which direction graphics are heading. It will be amazing to see what they can do with graphics at the end of this generation.