Wow that is stunning!

All indications to the contrary notwithstanding, I love dope-ass graphics. I always have.

Let's see what Uncharted 2 character models look like by comparison:

ROFL, I'd say that dude has more polygons in his face alone than all the Uncharted 2 characters combined. :P

I actually think I agree that the atmosphere is putting me in another direction, though have a look (to the best of our abilities coz im on 1920 x 1080 and i cant see the pics, of the pictures down the thread by jdevil. Even in the Bigger pics they dont change quality. Does Heavy Rain do that? I seriously don't know.

There is just something about this face model, and the polygons prove it kinda.

Oh btw for those saying that game dev costs for games with thouse graphics being astronomical "the demo was made by only three artists, one rigger, and a number of mocap artists" http://www.develop-online.net/news/37203/GDC11-Epic-unveils-new-tech-demo

I'm impressed, but little to no games are gunna bust their asses and invest so much to make games of that quality. 

Looks a bit like a recreation of Blade Runner in CryEngine2

http://www.incrysis.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=793

That's a game that could use an HD remake. This is the 1997 version

I hope though that next to more fog, lens flares, depth of field, reflections and shadows, we'll also get a big improvement in bright daylight scenes with long draw distances.

And for gameplay, procedural terrain and narrative, adaptive gameplay styles.

here's hoping.

What I think is funny is that they will have to stop somewhere, the games are realistic because they look real. You are killing animated people, before you were killing... well nothing you were pressing a button and a stick with 5 points coming out disappeared in an odd explosion haha. 

Next Gen might be that stopping point.

Pretty!!!!!!!!

but that's the thing the beauty of most of the tech shown off in this demo wont actually need much more effort than modern games. Techniques like depth of feild and dynamic lighting, reflection and shadows can basically just be turned on, so they won't add any cost. Tessellation also adds tons of added detail and and making objects more dynamic with little effort once they are implemented in engine, especially as most games already utilize bump maps that with a little tweaking can be used for tessellation. 

A game that looks like that demo won't cost much more than AAA games today to make for the most part.

In fact fully dynamic lighting and shadows could even lower costs as devs won't need to bake in the effects into textures etc and tesalistion can eleminate the need to create as many LOD levels for the models as the technique can dynamically add details to the models as you get closer etc and as shown by the rock transformation compleatly change the look of a model over time eleminating the need to create a seperate model for each step of the transformation.