UNCHARTED 4 GAMEPLAY!

[KBG29]

Gave it some time, and looked at all of the responses, and video feeds I could find. It has been a very hilarious journey, some of the posts on here and around the net are down right hysterical. No this game is not the hands down best looking thing we have ever seen, but then again, it is also not a downgrade from the E3 footage making Naughty Dog a bunch of liars either. This is simply a very nice looking piece of early footage from a less impressive part, of what is sure to be one of the best looking games at the time it releases.

Todays footage showed off a nice open landscape that was very accessible. We saw nice little gameplay improvments over previous installations in the series. Both animation and physics were amoung the best, if not the best I have seen. Lighting was very good (more on that in a sec). Textures and Polygon count looked to be right were I would expect them for a top end game in the current market. Overall, it is a very good looking simple piece of a game nearly a year out.

Now onto the lighting. This is one of the most important aspects of this generation. Just like in real life light source, material properties, and reflective properties play a major role in the way things look. So things are going to look very different in a sunny day, or a cloudy day, in natural light or artificial, or by fire light or moon light. They will also vary based on sufrace property and reflection. So a wet t-shirt will look different than a dry one, and a dry one will look different if it is clean or dirty. Skin, leather, metal, ect all take on a different look depending on many different factors.

That leads us to the E3 vs PSX footage. In the E3 footage, drake was dripping wet, the properties of his skin, his gun strap, his shirt, and his hair were all very different. The lighting source was different, and much more direct due to the clear night sky. In contrast, the PSX footage was on a very overcast day, with a mostly dry Drake, in a mostly showdowed area. That is the only reason there is any difference between this footage, and the E3 footage. Niether is better or worse, they are just different times and circumstances.

Really, this is the same uninformed agenda pushing crap we have seen all gen from both XBO and PS camps. At this point I just find it amusing. Anyhow, I look forward to seeing this game, and finally getting my hands on it next year.