High Voltage soon to show off the 'true potential' of the Wii

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KungKras said:

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Barozi said:
After playing The Conduit for about 30 minutes I don't even find the graphics so special. SMG for example still looks way better. They didn't push anything with that game.

graphics mean more then visual look. It includes physics.

WTF?! Physics are completely separated by visuals! Physics are the programmer's work, visuals are the artists'.

He saying that graphics mean more than the visual look because graphics include physics.

graphics and physics are two very different things.

They go hand and hand. Resistance: Fall of Man wasn't great visually but the added physics of active explosions and environmental destruction physics added to the look and feel of the game.

You are confusing graphics with the feel of the game. Red faction Guerilla has pretty bland graphics, but the physics still add an immersive feel to the game since everything is so destructible. Graphics and physics affect the feel of the game, but they are two different things.

There is a reason why a GPU, Graphical Processing Unit, controls physics. While yes there was a PPU, Physx, it didn't take off. Explosions and other physics are all graphics based events. You need animations to make a fire burn properly. You need physics to allow a character to interact with the environment and for you to know your doing it.

The term graphics covers physics of all types and visuals because physics are all visual based interactions. This is why the Source Engine, one of the best known game engines in the world, is a physics engine while the CryEngine 2 is a graphics engine. They both manage game visuals. One is just more physics based while the other is all about push polygons.