for comparrison reasons what have other toped games pushed on scrren. You know triangles (polygones) etc

Hence the quotes. I do not pretend to understand all the techy stuff about the processors and graphics chips everyone else seems to be so familiar with.

As someone said, any fool can look at two games and know if one looks significantly better.

2 million polys per frame?!? Damn... that's 120 mil polys/second if the game is running at 60fps!

I remember when Nintendo boasted that the 64 could do 600,000 polys per second, nearly double that of the PS1, and Sony used to boast about the PS2's Emotion Engine doing something like 20 mil polys per second in theory... of course it came nowhere near that point in actual gameplay, but still this just goes to show how far we've come since the so-called "polygon wars" began.

Half-Life 1 (PC, 1998):

Zombie - 844 polygons

Halo (XBox, 2001)

Masterchief - 2,000 polygons

Half-Life 2 (PC, 2004):

Combine Soldier - 4,682 polygons

Metal Gear Solid 3 (PS2, 2005)

Snake - 4,000 polygons

Crysis (PC, 2007)

Characters' heads - ~2,500-3,000 polygons
Characters' bodies - ~5,000 polygons

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3, 2007)

Main characters - ~20,000-30,000 polygons
Drake - ~30,000 polygons
Pirates - ~12,000-15,000 polygons

Halo 3 (XBox 360, 2008)

Elephant - 5,379 polygons

dude i read that full crysis bodies were 60k :p and not 5k. Maybe 5 with lod ? (though i dunno if crysis uses that)

For comparison:

Super Mario 64 (N64, 1996)

Mario - 800 polygons

Super Mario Sunshine (Game Cube, 2002)

Mario - 1,500 polygons

No, not these in-game characters. The nanosuit character in a cutscene maybe according to some.

Just goes to show what PS3 is capable of when people understand how to utilize it properly. Killzone 2 and now Uncharted 2 have given us a taste. There's no way it's anywhere near maxed out. Maybe we'll have Crysis level graphics by end-gen...

my bad.

wow so we go from like 40 or 60k
to a whopping 80k neat.