Exactly this isn't the most amazing clip I've ever seen of a tech demo but it is still damn impressive.  To say this is average is absolutely ridiculous.  If a game released right now on the 360 that could handle this level of detail in larger environments at a good framrate it would easily be in contention for best graphics of the generation.  The poly count alone on this clip FAR exceeds what almost any game is pushing right now.  Then again its also a tech demo only so is allowed to push farther due to smaller areas of focus such as zero processing for things like AI.

well other than modded Crysis lol that game probably pulls ahead with draw distance, I guess the fact that this demo is running on a couple of GTX 480s and and i7 is what is putting people off. It kind makes me wish that Microsoft would finally put thier money where their mouth is when they say that they still support PC gaming and get Epic to release Gears 3 on PC so that it could look as good as this tech demo. 

Cliff Bleszinski wasn't too pleased with Gears of War sales on the PC. I think Epic changed their focus on consoles because games sell better there. Blame the people who download games on PC's....

Next Unreal Engine will be released on next generation consoles.

Because Gears of War on PC was kind of shitty. By kind of i mean really, and by shitty, I mean pretty fucking terrible. Valve and Blizzard don't have problems making money off the PC, in fact Blizzard is the only reaosn why Activision hasnt been bankrupted so far probably.

i blame  piracy on pcs, so what now?

You can tell straight off the bat it's the unreal engine. Everything is big and chunky, and has that sort of dull shiny look to it. It's probably the easiest engine to spot in it's current iteration, with so many horrible looking games using it, and so few finding beauty in the ugliness.

The vegetation looks fantastic, and the weather effects are superb. Once this goes into the hands of developers though, I predict a lot more games that look very similiar to each other, and very few that truly stand out, unless the tools have become much easier to use, or developers have a better understanding of the engine by this stage.

You need to play Enslaved. The game looks gorgeous.

Until the occasional frame rate dips and graphic texture "pop in" i wonder if these guys are really using

the UR engine!

Pretty impressive, it didn't wow me like I thought it would. But, it looks pretty damn good.

Unreal Engine 3 is Epic's solution for this console generation, and (while UE4 is probably far into development) won't start pushing UE4 until GDC 2011 to sell it to developers working on next generation games.

It's less noticeable as being built with the Unreal Engine, which I guess is a step in the right direction!