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selnor on 12 March 2009
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MikeB said:

@ selnor

Gears of War 2 is a good game, which is better than Gears 1 technically and pushes the 360 to as good as its max potential (IMO this is true, when this was first claimed with regard to Gears 1 I was sceptical).

However MGS4 and Killzone 2 are both significantly more impressive with regard to their audio and graphics and I don't think you need to be technically knowledgeable to judge this at all. In any case those engines are already good enough to render very high quality realtime cutscenes, while Gears of War 2's game engine isn't.

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune I consider to be a too different gerne to directly compare with Gears of War 2, but it's still striking that apart from all the detail polish that game has a better combination of Anti-Aliasing and HDR than any of the 360 games we have seen so far.

One thing to remember though is that both Guerilla and Naughty Dog admitted there's still a lot of untapped potential in the PS3 which will be tapped in due time as game engine development take more advantage of the Cell's SPEs.

I disagree massively from first ahnd experience. Gears 2's cutscene are the best I have seen. Now opinion may say that MGS4 has better choreography etc etc. I'm talking from graphics standpoint. The texture work in Gears 2 cutscenes are untouvhed by either KZ2's or MGS4 cutscenes. Detail is higher in Gears 2. (I'm not including the CGI cutscene at the beginning of KZ2 because Gears 2 has no CGI).