Draft
03-22-2006, 08:21 PM
Video game trade show = shaky cam videos of upcoming games!
Crysis and Epic put demos of their latest software and beautiful hi-def monitors, and the fine folks at 1UP (http://www.1up.com/) were kind of enough to whip out their cell phones and snag us some video.
First, UT2K7. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3148958) It was played on a PS3, as you can tell from the ducks in a tub demo that precedes the game footage. Kind of a boring clip, some goober running his guy around a foundry type room, shooting at barrels that react in the pseudo-realistic fashion that's the hallmark of FPS physics. To think it was only 13 years ago that we were all salivating over the exploding barrels in DOOM. And look at us now, shooting at invulnerable barrels that kind of sort of react like real life barrels. Ah, progress.
But then, Crysis! (http://www.1up.com/do/download?cId=3147565) Unplayable, so take what you see with a grain of salt, but holy smokes! Those Crytek boys really know how to put together a pretty demo. If the final game actually looks like that, it'll definitely be a contender for best sci-fi jungle based first person shooter of all time!
Crysis looks really cool, but UT2K7 was kind of meh. Of course, it was playable, and Crysis was only there in movie form, so who knows?
Crysis and Epic put demos of their latest software and beautiful hi-def monitors, and the fine folks at 1UP (http://www.1up.com/) were kind of enough to whip out their cell phones and snag us some video.
First, UT2K7. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3148958) It was played on a PS3, as you can tell from the ducks in a tub demo that precedes the game footage. Kind of a boring clip, some goober running his guy around a foundry type room, shooting at barrels that react in the pseudo-realistic fashion that's the hallmark of FPS physics. To think it was only 13 years ago that we were all salivating over the exploding barrels in DOOM. And look at us now, shooting at invulnerable barrels that kind of sort of react like real life barrels. Ah, progress.
But then, Crysis! (http://www.1up.com/do/download?cId=3147565) Unplayable, so take what you see with a grain of salt, but holy smokes! Those Crytek boys really know how to put together a pretty demo. If the final game actually looks like that, it'll definitely be a contender for best sci-fi jungle based first person shooter of all time!
Crysis looks really cool, but UT2K7 was kind of meh. Of course, it was playable, and Crysis was only there in movie form, so who knows?