GoW Ascension: Review Thread

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darkknightkryta said:

ethomaz said:

darkknightkryta said:

I've played both and I'm telling your right now Tomb Raider is better.  So far that I've played (Passed the prologue) God of War does nothing God of War 3 hadn't already done.  Which leaves you with that plastic looking texture work and overall lack of detail (By detail I mean extra stuff, plantation, mud, animals running around, etc).  Tomb Raider really blew me away.  Other than shading, Tomb Raider is quite a bit better looking than Uncharted 2 and 3.  They even did the "Burning building" better than what Naughty Dog did in Uncharted 3.  Overall larger areas than God of War too.  Plus once I get Tomb Raider running on my PC I can start looking at what the PC version did better cause I have a hunch the PS3 version of Tomb Raider isn't too far behind its PC counter part.

Are you playing the PC TB? Because the PS3 version don't came close to U2 or U3... and Ascension just destroyed U2/U3 in graphics terms.

Yeap... Uncharted 3 is better than GoW3 but I have to agree Ascension is in another level.

No I'm playing the PS3 version, near the end of the game actually.  I put in the PC version now to see how much further they went with the game's engine.  And yes the PS3 version does come close, it goes further.  There's only four things Uncharted does better, shading, animations and models and water. As far as models go only the main characters in Uncharted look better (Thugs you kill look about the same quality), and Lara herself looks just as good as Drake does (Other characters, not so much).  Tomb Raider gives you more freedom and larger environments than all 3 Uncharteds, keeps up the level of detail and gives you better lighting.  Yes I was wrong about the cutscene render farm, they use 8 PS3s: https://twitter.com/cbalestra/status/104624986450440192.  Ascensions doesn't do anything better than God of War 3, it's more refined, you have more moving environments, but the overall look and lighting quality stayed the same, up until the end of the prologue anyways, I need to finish up Tomb Raider before I move on with God of War.

Edit: I'm thinking too much of Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3's size of levels are just as big, looking at it again.

Just to add something to the graphics debate. The closest we have right now to objectivity is the Digital Foundry face-off (even though i rather trust Lens of Truth more) that states that the console of choice with the better version of Tomb Raider is the PS3 but from the few words and the title they rather think that it doesn't surpass Uncharted.

On topic: after playing the demo I'm convinced to buy the game anyway, but was rather expecting higher metascore.