The movie-loading trick is a good one, imo. People need to use it more, especially in Blu-Ray sized games.

The video in particular wasn't very exciting, though. :/

okey so it just masks the loading nice feature! thats why they said u wont be able to detect loading, because its going on in the cutscenes! I wonder if that means youll not be able to zoom forward cut scenes

LOL Elite 360 fan just shut down a noob 360 fan, I never thought I'd see that. Anyways, that looks pretty sweet, although Hale's attitude seems kinda....forced. IDK how far into the game it is, maybe something that happens before this made Hale kinda change a little bit, but I'm running through R:FOM again and he was not like that (he didnt even talk!). Now that I think about it, it could be that the Chimeran virus is making him more aggressive, which would make sense y that big guy was so angry because (i'm guessing) he also has a resistance to the virus and is like Hale. In terms of graphics, the big guy's lip synching and the corners of his mouth seemed kinda off to me, IDK maybe i'm going crazy. Anyways, can't wait, Oct 6th, the beta starts, WOOT!

Uncharted was like this, u could play the entire game without seeing one loading screen in between each part of the game. It only loads once, everytime u load a game for each sitting. To answer ur question, if it is anything like Uncharted (since ND and IG share ideas/tech) then u should be able to skip the cutscenes all together and still manage to not see a loading screen. I tried that with Uncharted a few times, skipped the cutscenes and BAM, straight into gameplay, that REALLY showed me how good ND are and raised my respect for them tenfold. Cutscenes are supposed to be where the loading happens, if u skip the cutscenes, u would THINK that there would still be some loading to do, but there isnt....that's just amazing.

meh, I don't care about that trailer. It's just cheesy over acting. I'm definately buying the game day 1, but that didn't get me excited about it.

The two are connected, one doesn't rise without the other ;P

oh cool thanks that would be awesome if the loading times were almost non existent even if u skipped the cutscnes like uncharted

Awsome.

voice acting killed it :/
but great overall

I thought the facial animations of Hale were pretty funny and cartoonish with Insomiac's style (Ratchet and Clank).

The animations were horrid. The graphics were so so, but not even top tier by ps3 and even 360 standards now.