It's already possible. It's just too expensive. So they found a shortcut. Big deal. Sounds like every other pretty game out there.

I am very confused

Look at the comparisons between U2 and the recent CGI human movies (Beowulf, Christmas Carol, etc), U2 doesn't really go down the uncanny valley, no creepy dead eyes.

This thread is pointless, the question was already answered by first 4 replyies. Yet people start draggin bs into the thread.

That Turn 10 remark deserves a slap, they aren't boosting themselves to the heavens, they are just trying to EXPLAIN their technology to ordinary folk.

And yes, no other game is anywhere close to Uncharted 2 visualy and that include characters, enviroments, effects, animations... everything. Not even Crysis. If you don't believe me, PLAY the game. No video will do you the justice.

They raised the bar with procedural shortcuts.  That's awesome.  But it can definitely be reproduced with animation alone.  It would just take tons of time and money and patience and probably cost too much money to be worth it.  Procedural generation and animation is the future.  Believe.

Err... what?

Yeah another animator could reproduce what they have done but it will be very expensive.

They said that about Jak and Daxter, back in 2001, too. I still have the Playstation Underground disc of them saying that.

ive not seen any game on any console system that matches uncharted 2.

And a cow can jump to the moon. It's not impossible, only very unlikely. So unlikely that I can say that you won't see that in your lifetime because the expected time for such even to happen is extremely big when compared to the age of the universe, and you would be right in saying it is for all practical purposes impossible.

Same here: if it takes ten thousand men-years to animate manually a character to the same effect, then it won't happen in any videogame and it is by all practical purposes impossible. Making it possible in practice won't change the life of anybody, but is a big deal for a developer who works on animations and is interviewed about his work.

Why so hasty to dismiss the hard work of talented people?