Tons of new Zelda U shown at Game Awards! What did you think?

[Nuvendil]

Actually the demonstration is the same as the E3 build I think, the location and action chosen for E3 are just advantageous for showing off. Land forms and such in the E3 seen are just better and the rocks are kept at a distance. You can see the same rock textures we saw in the new demo on the rock in the field and the rocks to the left. The grass is the exact same from what we can tell. The bushes too, as we see essentially those same bushes in the new demo. The problem with comparing the two is amplified by two things though: the new demo was off screen and the new demo's region has different types of foliage. The new demo had aspen and what seem to be apple or maybe a smaller breed of oak. The E3 footage had pines and larger oaks. The LOD, however, is the exact same as far as we can tell. But again, it's all off screen, which makes everything look worse. The lighting is certainly still very well done, with lots of dynamic shadows and lighting effects on the grass and so on. Oh, and the E3 demo showed off a lot more particle and lighting effects which weren't available for the new one. So comparing the two is a bit difficult.