| selnor said: I give up. ME1 was considered awesome textures. Gears 2 was when it released by many considered the best textures on any console game. Even in arguements over KZ2 versus GeoW 2, Often everyone agreed that Gears 2 had the better textures but KZ2 looked better in motion ( thanks to great animation and brilliant use of Post Processing affects. ) UE3 is fantastic at textures. If ME1 is considered great textures, ME2 beats it in every way. Textures are gonna be a very strong point. Especially considering UE3 is fantastic at textures. It always has been. |
Just because 1 had good textures & 2 is an improvement doesn't mean 2 is instantly amazing as you have to look at the games and how the market has developed since ME1. Which is a hell of a lot.
As you clearly are not looking at what I've noticed, I have far too much spare time and so have highlighted them in the following screenshots:
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8544/vlcsnap2010012512h04m22.png
As you can see the textures for the enviroment are very simple and so are the shadows. On the left during the video the soft shadows are basic, which is seen on the right as there is a very clear distinction between hard & soft, not a gradual change. Hardly top notch graphics and you have to remember, this game runs great on the 8800GT, which is telling about the graphics.
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7648/vlcsnap2010012512h05m09.png
The above link shows how the supposed amazing textures aren't there. Look at the facial hair. It's just texturing, whereas the skin is quite low res bump mapping. Though a mad amout of detail has gone into Shepard who looks ace.
So there we are - exact screenshots from the video at 720p and the game looks ace, but the graphics are hardly the best on the consoles.
