Your technical opinion on Blu-Ray and the Cell as found in the PS3

[KBG29]

@hduser

There are a couple examples of Cells adition to gameplay. Killzone 2's partical effects are only possible because of the Cell (of course high end PC's can run it better, but as far as consoles are concerned you get the point). Because Cell can push so much data it allowed Gurrilia to create the most intense war sets ever created in a game. The bridge level in Killzone 2 is the one that comes to mind. Their are so many particals, and so much smoke that at times you can't even see the enemies. This has been achived to an extent in other games by predetemined events, but in K2 it is done by rockets, gernades, exploding barrels, and other user actions. This happens throughout the game, and it greatly effects the gameplay.

Uncharted 2 puts you in 3 differant scenarios that really show off Cell, and on shows off Blu-ray. The first is the building falling scence. In that scence they pushed the processor hard. What makjes this event so special is the pure amount of stuff happening. All of the physics, sound, animation, collision, and particals come together to create a cinematic experiance while you are still in control of you charicter. The second scence is the trian. Here they showed off the constant stream of Blu-ray, along with great physics (curtisy of tech learned from Killzone 2's train level), and animation. Third we have the decent into the final area of the game which puts both of these two scence together for an awsome experiance that Cell and Blu-ray make possible.

As to my above post. These are scence that would have looked worse, and been cutscence had PS3 launched with these two techs.