Having a darker colour palette coupled with a heavy use of chiaroscuro is one of the oldest tricks in the books and I'm not just talking about games. One of the reasons film-noir came to prominence is because its cheaper to bathe the set in shadow and shoot in black and white film stock then it is to actually build a fully realised set.

That would be really good, particularly in a complex architecture, but it's always a good thing. Repetitive tasks are boring for most common people, for creative people like games developers, boredom is even more dangerous, as it can lower their performances.

If I'm not mistaken these thoughts of yours are based on screen shots, playing gears 2 and a spin on the KZ2 demo +beta? Don't you think think if you wanted to do an unbiased comparison then waiting until KZ2 had been released and you had played it would have stopped this sounding like an articulated piece of MS propaganda.

 i agree. There are also plants in the full game, there just dead.

My analysis is based on the Killzone 2 beta, screenshots, videos, and all the technical information released by Guerilla Games. If you had read the entire thread (I know it's long) you would have no said that because I've already addressed this time and time again. 

If only these people would just read the thread. I thought you did an excellent job of explaining yourself, but people won't know this until they at least read up to page 5.

This is page 5 for me.

Actually, you've only read up until page 4, and then you read page nine, which makes a total of five pages read.

So yeah, everyone needs to play Elite Beat Agents. : - )

I think you should edit your original post with corrections and clarifications, jetrii. I'm reading it in between brewskis, and I find it fascinating. Not quite in line with my understanding of hardware rendering, but I think I understand how/why you perceive what's going on, and its an interesting viewpoint nonetheless.

@jetrii,my bad ,it could have been assembler,all i know it was seen as an advantage in the early days of ps3 development, i remember a UK developer saying in response to the problems getting to grips with the ps3 he said they had a lot of these type programmers going back to the amiga days and it would give them better access to the architecture,would it have anything to do with carmack's criticism of having to recompile for every spu, i dont know,ps my friends english i live in oz so dont hear from him very often