Portal (PS3/X360/PC) Trailer

[RainOfTerror]

To fuel the recent physics madness Valve is adding a totally new singleplayer game called Portal to Half-Life 2 Episode 2, which seems to have run away from 3D Realms' Prey. As the name indicates, this game is all about portals and its creative use to solve puzzles. The usage is quite simple as all you have to do is make an exit and entrance and walk from one end to the next. From simple obstacles as bypassing a gap in the floor, all the way to creating multiple portals to give chase to enemies and defeating turrets.

Valve has released what might be the first of a series of "Orientation" trailers to make us familiar with Portal.

Mirrors :
WorthPlaying (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=35564)
FileShack (http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/9096/Portal+Game+Trailer/)
GameSpot (http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/halflife2episode2/media.html?sid=6154227&autoplay=6154227)
3D Gamers (http://www.3dgamers.com/games/halflife2ep2/downloads/)
FilePlanet (http://www.fileplanet.com/165436/160000/fileinfo/Half-Life-2:-Episode-Two---Portal-Movie-%5BHigh-Res%5D)

Thanks Varsity, The Continental and bKangy for a similar submission.

[The Continental]

Dear Valve,

Thank you for saving PC gaming.

Love,
-The Continental

Translation: That looks shit hot. I don't know which one I'm looking forward to more, TF2 or this.

[Varsity]

Insane. Goddamn insane.

[Lord Nerdious]

Shithot? Oh yes. New content? Rocks my socks. I think we may have found gold here.

[FallenStar]

Wow!!! Episode 2 can't get here fast enough.

[Dabombpizza]

This is great! How do you make Episode 2 sell like wildfire? Include 2 new IPs!

Now if only someone could upload this to YouTube so I can watch it at work. Fucking zips...

[Magnanimous Gnome]

Okay, I'm confused. So Halflife 2: Episode 2 contains a new HL2 single player mini-campaign or levels, TF2, and now this?

Damn....

[bKangy]

The single best game trailer I have ever seen.

"There is a hooole in the skyyy in which things may flyyy."

[fitbabits]

Holy crap! That was simply astounding...

[bapenguin]

Anybody got a streaming source yet? Downloads here are taking ass long.

[fitbabits]

Anybody got a streaming source yet? Downloads here are taking ass long.
I streamed it from the GameSpot mirror. Click "Watch It Now" when the page opens. Let me know if you need a user id and password.

[Wyrm]

That is SHIT hot. If this thing costs me 20 bucks, consider me sold.

[Akeldama]

Another mirror here: http://download.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=11917

[thecrazyd]

Prey can fucking eat it. This looks amazing.

[fitbabits]

Prey can fucking eat it. This looks amazing.
Quoted for mother-eating truth! :)

[Lord Nerdious]

Even with the trailer looking like a slideshow on my comp, this officially flipped the HL fanboy switch from off to on.

[Dabombpizza]

I just watched it via Gamespot Streaming sans sound. Holy crap! I am constantly amazed by Valve! That was unbe-fucking-lievable!

[insidious]

Faces are melted when the difficulty level increases to mind-fuck.

Schweet.

[Varsity]

In an effort to quash the Prey stuff, this is quite a bit older than that game. It was made by the team behind Narbacular drop, which is at least a year old now.

Edit: I can't help but be excited by every upload made to Steam since Valve dropped all this on us. There's something fairly hefty (http://steampowered.com/status/status.html) being placed on the content servers right now, and with this video's release and nothing else we know about upcoming...

[Zanzibar]

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6834/mine9zx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[bapenguin]

That looks great. What a unique looking game.

[HALO 32]

since i have 360...lets see

Prey

or

Half Life 2...including Episode 1 and 2 (of course Portal kicks ass!) and Team Fortress 2

i think ill go for Half Life 2

[Dabombpizza]

In an effort to quash the Prey stuff, this is quite a bit older than that game. It was made by the team behind Narbacular drop, which is at least a year old now.
Huh? Explain? Are you saying portal is a new look to an old game? Are you squashing Prey? What's happening?

[The Continental]

In an effort to quash the Prey stuff, this is quite a bit older than that game. It was made by the team behind Narbacular drop, which is at least a year old now.

Um, wasn't Prey originally announced in 1996?

[Zanzibar]

oh, Youtube mirror at:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GWzmL05OlYA

[Varsity]

Huh? Explain? Are you saying portal is a new look to an old game? Are you squashing Prey? What's happening?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%28computer_game%29#History

Um, wasn't Prey originally announced in 1996?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%28computer_game%29#Criticism

[Deadend]

I said holy shit while watching it. I am so there.

[Khash]

Proof that mouse/keyboard is the only way to go. I'd love to see people try that with a gamepad.

[Varsity]

I'd love to see people try that with a gamepad.
You will, come christmas. ;)

[Lord Nerdious]

So is there anyword on this game supporting XNA?

[Wyrm]

I'm at work and I cursed out loud when I saw some of that stuff. Some of it, I was thinking, why the fuck didn't Prey do some of that stuff? The infinite loop stuff is really freaking cool, and Valve looks to be taking this into some seriously creative possibilities.

[Varsity]

So is there anyword on this game supporting XNA?
XNA = .NET, so I would be very suprised. It's not like Valve don't have the resources to build Source on different platforms by hand.

[digitalErich]

Wow, this trailer makes me angry that I don't have this game. You hear that Valve? I'm pissed.

[Watership]

In an effort to quash the Prey stuff, this is quite a bit older than that game. It was made by the team behind Narbacular drop, which is at least a year old now.


Prey is old dude. OLD. There are trailers of Portal jumping and strange gravity weirdness from the old prey trailers form 1997 hanging around. Narbacular is only like a year old.


Woah. and here it is.

Prey: Original Trailer (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/prey/video_player.html?id=IiA2ljr_5b4KuTM)

[UnderHero5]

Damn it, that looks good! I want it now!

[Varsity]

Prey is old dude. OLD. There are trailers of Portal jumping and strange gravity weirdness from the old prey trailers form 1997 hanging around.
It's not just some cash-in on the game's recent release is what I'm trying to say.

I liked this comment from ShackNews:This looks incredible. I wish this shit came out when I was a teenager and was into taking acid.
Everyone is completely pumped by all of Valve's news lately. It's incredible how well they've done!

[torrefaction]

Wow...That's just amazing. Just to drive the point home...fuck Prey. They blew the potential of the idea, comparitively. These guys have it right.

[Magnanimous Gnome]

Wow, I just watched the trailer, minus sound, and it was great! I need a new computer by the end of the year, and my stern resolve to switch to Apple just wobbled slightly - fuck you Valve! :p

[Voodoo]

Am I the only one that remembers the portals used in the original Unreal game as well as the shifting gravity effects?

[Dabombpizza]

Wow...That's just amazing. Just to drive the point home...fuck Prey. They blew the potential of the idea, comparitively. These guys have it right.
Valve took the idea, and ran with it. Ran with it straight through a wall, out the floor, over a ledge, through the floor again, launching itself into the air through the ceiling and into my heart.

[UnderHero5]

I don't want to sound negative to the Xbox 360 owners, but Valve never anounced that TF2 or Portal would be included with HL2 on 360. They only said HL2, Ep1 and Ep2. Nothing about TF2 or Portal. I really wouldn't count on getting those two along with HL2. Maybe later as a seperate purchase, but not WITH it.

[Nameback]

God I hate you people, I'm stuck over here on 56k and its going to take forever to get this trailer. Meanwhile I read about you people saying how amazing it is, the suspense is killing me.

[Qoz]

Wow...That's just amazing. Just to drive the point home...fuck Prey. They blew the potential of the idea, comparitively. These guys have it right.
Prey is amazing. It has so many cool moments. This short trailer shows promise, but it is hardly a Prey beater. And remember Prey will have a sequel, so they can still introduce alot of portal gameplay in the future.

And what good is an infinite loop through portals? You can't escape it or use it for any good?

[MSUStud911]

I was just coming here to submit this. That trailer is absolutely amazing.

[Opty]

Hey everyone who's going "I want to play this now" play Narbacular Drop (http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/narbaculardrop.html) the game's prototype.

[Zeal]

Game looks good.

[Dabombpizza]

Wow, I just watched the trailer, minus sound, and it was great! I need a new computer by the end of the year, and my stern resolve to switch to Apple just wobbled slightly - fuck you Valve! :p

I use a macbook pro, and run CS: Source at full resolution (it's something wacky...like 1444x900). And if you use a iMac it's more than powerful enough.

[thecrazyd]

Prey is amazing. It has so many cool moments. This short trailer shows promise, but it is hardly a Prey beater. And remember Prey will have a sequel, so they can still introduce alot of portal gameplay in the future.

And what good is an infinite loop through portals? You can't escape it or use it for any good?
Do you honestly not see the advantages of creating your own portals? The difference is amazingly huge. I dig Prey, but it has absolutely nothing on this.

[Mortis]

Looks pretty cool, I will check it out for sure.

[Varsity]

Valve never anounced that TF2 or Portal would be included with HL2 on 360.
Yes they did (http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1966249&postcount=1).

[kid cabelgo]

I just can't believe now nice the new source effects look. Looks like they added a little motion blur and depth of field effects on the portal gun. It adds so much to that already nice looking engine.

And again, shithot is the word for this.

[Voodoo]

This is pretty crazy. LOL!

[Nameback]

Wow, I just watched the first few seconds but I think a lot of people have missed something. Listen to the voice, a new version of the text to speech convertet perhaps? I loved all the funny things you could do with it in HL1.

[torrefaction]

I don't want to sound negative to the Xbox 360 owners, but Valve never anounced that TF2 or Portal would be included with HL2 on 360. They only said HL2, Ep1 and Ep2. Nothing about TF2 or Portal. I really wouldn't count on getting those two along with HL2. Maybe later as a seperate purchase, but not WITH it.

Not according to this (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/14/valve_episode2/)

[UnderHero5]

Yes they did (http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1966249&postcount=1).
I stand corrected... kind of. Technically they never anounced it, some one emailed them and asked them :p

But that's cool then. Yay.

[zrikz]

Wow that looks sick, I cant wait. I started it up at first and was like wtf... 2d ? Then... just wow. I hope it comes out soon :)

[Varsity]

Someone just pointed this out:

Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device > ASHPD > A. SHPD > Adrian Shepard

:eek:

[Hewie]

Whoaaaaa, I think I shit my pants.

[torrefaction]

So there's talk of this gun existing in HL2 Episode 2. That'd be interesting.

[UnderHero5]

So there's talk of this gun existing in HL2 Episode 2. That'd be interesting.
It would most likely break the gameplay. The HL games are pretty linear (not a bad thing)... having a gun like that would let you completely omit parts of levels and get to places you shouldn't be able to get to.

I doubt it'll be in it.

[Magnanimous Gnome]

I use a macbook pro, and run CS: Source at full resolution (it's something wacky...like 1444x900). And if you use a iMac it's more than powerful enough.


Ah, that's a good point. Still, if I bought a beautiful iMac I don't know if I'd want to taint it with XP. :D Half the point is getting AWAY from Windows.

[Captain Awesome]

Oh my, that was very awesome-o!

[51|RandoM]

It would most likely break the gameplay. The HL games are pretty linear (not a bad thing)... having a gun like that would let you completely omit parts of levels and get to places you shouldn't be able to get to.

I doubt it'll be in it.

Oh come on, you know the combine will deploy aperture defense fields over 'sensitive' structures/environments.

If they don't want you using the portal gun in some area it is very easy to script you losing the gun, the gun not working, etc. heck, they did it already with the grav gun on at least two occassions I can think of.

It looks like an interesting idea, but the proof will be in the execution, not in a concept demo.

I particularly liked using it to prevent falling damage. Slap a portal exit near the floor, slap a portal entry beneath you right before you hit. I can already see situations where you'll switch guns in midair, blow the crap out of a turret or something, then switch back to portal to save yourself.

Oh, another idea, remember that room you left way back on the map like 10 minutes ago? Yeah, the place with all the ammo you didn't need at the time but do need now. Good thing you left a portal exit back there. You can drop a portal entry now that you need the ammo and travel instantly back to the armory.

[The Continental]

Someone just pointed this out:

Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device > ASHPD > A. SHPD > Adrian Shepard

:eek:

Heh, Opposing Force sequel in the works perhaps? Or maybe just an increased role in the HL2 universe for the Shep.

[Liquidize105]

Very interesting, a game with thinking involved, and it's a FPS no less. How long has it been?

The tricking/speedrunning community's gonna have a blast with this.

[StoneGut]

Amazing... looks like the trailer worked getting us all excited and talking.

Can't wait for the TF2 one to hit.

[zrikz]

Multiplayer ought to be insane with this. I can see people setting up portals leading into mines, endless portals and overall a lot of fun.

[Maskatron]

Wow. Just wow. Call this jaded gamer impressed.

[Varsity]

NOOOOOO
Tomorrow at 11 am Pacific, the Team Fortress 2 trailer will be made available. And the new Episode Two trailer will be released at the end of this week.
Another DAY? :'(

Also:All the footage shown in these trailers was created using Source. Some of the effects, namely depth of field and motion blur, were applied via post-processing features built into the Source engine technology.

[Maskatron]

Prey is amazing. It has so many cool moments. This short trailer shows promise, but it is hardly a Prey beater. And remember Prey will have a sequel, so they can still introduce alot of portal gameplay in the future.



Hi George.

[slink-jadranko]

I am nigh speechless. I cannot wait for this! Again, Valve just get cooler and cooler.

And is not the Source engine looking damn perdy in that. I think there was some depth of field stuff happening that was really sweet.

[Zanzibar]

Multiplayer ought to be insane with this. I can see people setting up portals leading into mines, endless portals and overall a lot of fun.

Hell yeah. Mother of All Booby-Traps.

[GrayFox]

Who said that source e. was done for?

[Magnanimous Gnome]

Hell yeah. Mother of All Booby-Traps.


I can actually see that getting old quite quick. How many times is someone actually going to fall for something like that? If I went through a portal and and was jumped by a camper or something on the other side, I probably wouldn't go into too many more portals after that. There's probably something Valve could do to get around this, so I suppose we will have to wait and see.

[Zanzibar]

I can actually see that getting old quite quick. How many times is someone actually going to fall for something like that? If I went through a portal and and was jumped by a camper or something on the other side, I probably wouldn't go into too many more portals after that. There's probably something Valve could do to get around this, so I suppose we will have to wait and see.

Well, the trick is to be hidden, and then have the 'out' portal already set, so you fire the 'in' portal at the feet of whoever comes into the room. More of a 'surprise! You're in a portal!' kind of thing.

[Varsity]

Who said that source e. was done for?
A fool. And now, seeing as I have just re-discovered the size tag:

Portal is single-player only!

[Fernie417]

Like the rest of you guys, obscenities were uttered from my mouth as this trailer just went nuts. This is the reason I'm buying Half Life 2 Episode 2, and will in turn cause me to pick up the first as well.
Heh, I should probably get around to reinstalling Steam.

[fitbabits]

A fool. And now, seeing as I have just re-discovered the size tag:

Portal is single-player only!
I think you may have meant:

Portal is single-player only!

[AngelFaceBabyTeeth]

hmm, I don't know......... I agree that this could get boring fast. I don't see the big idea here? what portals like Prey? I am going to say that does,nt look that great.

[Dr Quincy]

Prey is amazing. It has so many cool moments. This short trailer shows promise, but it is hardly a Prey beater.

I'm sorry to tell you, but Prey is dead. It does nothing close to this.

[Demo_Boy]

Yea its cool, BUT didnt I see this idea at GDC as a playable game by an indie developer?

I sure hope they hired those people instead of just stealing the ideas from their prototype.

[Opty]

Yea its cool, BUT didnt I see this idea at GDC as a playable game by an indie developer?

I sure hope they hired those people instead of just stealing the ideas from their prototype.

They did hire them, and I linked said game on page 2. Here it is again for your downloading pleasure: Narbacular Drop (http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/narbaculardrop.html)

[Wyrm]

I'm sorry to tell you, but Prey is dead. It does nothing close to this.

That's an ignorant statement. Prey is a good game in its own right. We shouldn't be bitching about the fact that Valve is doing a "better job" with this stuff. Embrace the fact that this portal tech is going to be the next big gameplay thing on PC, and stop sounding like such a moron.

Prey, while short lived, is an excellent game with a high amount of polish and quality to it. I've thoroughly enjoyed playing it and if you haven't, you should do yourself a favor and, at the very least, rent it.

[Magnanimous Gnome]

HL2 Ep2 will be $20 right?

[thecrazyd]

HL2 Ep2 will be $20 right?
Maybe? I am fairly sure the price hasn't been announced. If so, it would be a hell of a deal.

[Ferong]

Portal looks nice, but I don't really get all the Prey bashing. Yes, both games are first person and use portals, but this looks much more like a puzzler. Why not love them both? :D

[Dr Quincy]

Prey, while short lived, is an excellent game with a high amount of polish and quality to it. I've thoroughly enjoyed playing it and if you haven't, you should do yourself a favor and, at the very least, rent it.

I played it over the weekend on the PC.

Prey is a game of the 90's. It succeeds in only providing a post-Quake gloss to the tired genre by adding a limited portal and gravity mechanic; unique gameplay is only really provided by the latter and mostly in the multiplayer environment. For the most part the portal tech. serves as a way to spawn enemies in convinently and to provide a visually attractive teleportation system. Compare the application of the portal system in this two minute video with the entire 8 hours of Prey. Portal demonstrates progressive, thorough and imaginitive application of the idea, Prey uses it badly. Further, Prey's art style is hackneyed, the story science fiction cliche, the characters badly drawn, the gameplay derivative, the AI pedestrian. It feels like a game of yesteryear. It does not feel progressive. It feels like tedious, macho gaming. If I read like a troll then to counter I put to you that this game is seeing such a huge amount of, in my opinion undeserved, hype and publicity while more progressive indie projects (such as Narbacular Drop) go unnoticed. This makes me angry. This is unacceptable.

Prey is at best a 7/10 experience.

Portal looks nice, but I don't really get all the Prey bashing. Yes, both games are first person and use portals, but this looks much more like a puzzler. Why not love them both? :D

The press indicates that Portal is to be set in the Half-life 2 universe. My guess is that this video serves to show off the tech. The application of this in a real world setting may well yet be shown...

[The Iron Weasel]

Good lord I need this game!

[The Letter 3]

hmm, I don't know......... I agree that this could get boring fast. I don't see the big idea here? what portals like Prey? I am going to say that does,nt look that great.
How could this get boring? Because you have to think? Yeah, those headaches with pictures fuck with me too! ;)

And the portals are nothing like Prey. In Prey, you can't create your own portals, you merely activiate them or use those the game gives to you.

[kid cabelgo]

Portal looks nice, but I don't really get all the Prey bashing. Yes, both games are first person and use portals, but this looks much more like a puzzler. Why not love them both? :D

exactly. they share some similarities, but they're completely different games. prey is a straight out FPS. This game doesn't technically have the player using guns at all. it's just a silly argument, and you know how people looooooove to argue.

[Sinistar]

Very impressive. Great great trailer!

[Draft]

Why all the Prey hate? Oh right this forum is filled with furious dicks.

[Draft]

If I read like a troll then to counter I put to you that this game is seeing such a huge amount of, in my opinion undeserved, hype and publicity while more progressive indie projects (such as Narbacular Drop) go unnoticed. This makes me angry. This is unacceptable.Yeah it really sucks that indie games like Narbacular Drop go unnoticed and don't land their developers gigs at big name dev houses like Valve where they get to make full retail versions of the innovative ideas...

GJ with the prey rant and the segueway into the whole indie developer thing. The furious dick in you is strong.

[Captain Awesome]

Watched the trailer again, this is fucking sweet. I like that there are no standard "guns" in this and that its treated like an agressive puzzle game.

This is going to have Coop right? Because this would make amazing hours of gameplay. I noticed as you watch the trailer furthur and furthur down. You can see those two people interacting with each other really quickly and insanely fast.

Man this could open up a whole new genre in the FPS world. Valve can try and get people involved in making Portal maps and get more custom made stuff done for this.

I love the whole Combine-white-sterilized-hospital facility.

[Zanzibar]

Watched the trailer again, this is fucking sweet. I like that there are no standard "guns" in this and that its treated like an agressive puzzle game.

This is going to have Coop right? Because this would make amazing hours of gameplay. I noticed as you watch the trailer furthur and furthur down. You can see those two people interacting with each other really quickly and insanely fast.

Man this could open up a whole new genre in the FPS world. Valve can try and get people involved in making Portal maps and get more custom made stuff done for this.

I love the whole Combine-white-sterilized-hospital facility.

This may be single-player puzzle-solving. I think the people 'interacting' with each other are actually ghost versions of YOU.

[Captain Awesome]

This may be single-player puzzle-solving. I think the people 'interacting' with each other are actually ghost versions of YOU.

Damnit, its what I thought but hoping I was wrong :\

[Zanzibar]

Damnit, its what I thought but hoping I was wrong :\

Jesus, imagine a TEAM version of this, where you and your friends create portal traps in succession. Giant Rube Goldberg-esque hilarity ensues, making Escher proud.

[MasterEvilAce]

I thought that was showing multiplayer as well. I'm sure a mod will come along to give multiplayer, if not.

Anyways. At first I thought.. wtf? is this a 2d game in 3d? Ok, I can deal with that. I laughed during the dialog explaining everything. Then it goes 3d and I think.. wow. Ok, but the maps seem a little bland.

I kept getting MORE intrigued as I kept watching. That's how you make a game trailer, damn!

By the end, I wanted this game. Honestly, the guy flies through a portal, places another portal, and goes through it while being pulled down.

That's fucking crazy.

[aversion2k]

Someone just pointed this out:

Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device > ASHPD > A. SHPD > Adrian Shepard

:eek:

Hmm Adrian Shepard did have a portal gun. But his wasnt as cool.
Portal isnt actually set in the hl2 universe is it?

[Lon Lon Rabbit]

Wow, I just watched the first few seconds but I think a lot of people have missed something. Listen to the voice, a new version of the text to speech convertet perhaps? I loved all the funny things you could do with it in HL1.

"THERE. ARE. NINE. RED. ASS. ON. THE. FLAG."

[ttoastt]

Reminds me somewhat of conc maps for TFC towards the end, looks fun

[Wombat]

I noticed in a couple of places he picks up boxes with the portal device, a bit like the grav gun. Maybe they plan to add limited portal technology to the grav gun.

[Captain Awesome]

Jesus, imagine a TEAM version of this, where you and your friends create portal traps in succession. Giant Rube Goldberg-esque hilarity ensues, making Escher proud.


OMG yes! I have a HUGE feeling that Valve will be letting this test out for Episode 2 and we will get some insame MP version of Portal for Episode 3 :D

[kaddar]

Does anyone here remember the portal in killer quake pack mod for quake1? The portal gun from that made AWESOME gameplay.

The difference is that portal in KQP was basically a "hole" created between one side of a thin wall and the other.

[Suicidal ShiZuru]

Well... wow.

[Watership]

I think you may have meant:

Portal is single-player only!

Welcome to the techdemo/puzzle solving game that everyone watched the trailer and thought would be counterstrike with portals.

[Fyd]

Amazing!!!! i love the idea, i liked Prey ...

[Dr Quincy]

GJ with the prey rant and the segueway into the whole indie developer thing. The furious dick in you is strong.

But... I thought I had all my exits covered. I don't get this flaming lark at all...

[SexualChoc]

Holy hell.... That's freaking amazing. All the more reason to get Episode 2....

[Shifter]

I'd pay $29.95 just to get TF2, never mind Ep 2 or Portal!

[Stormwatcher]

Wow, that was really, really awesome.
Me wants it.

[Mr.Condescension]

I've been showing this teaser around the office all today and yesterday. Shit fucking hot. Seriously.

[Neosho]

Holy crap. One of my friends said i should watch this awhile ago..but DAMN.

People are bashing on prey because this is what prey could have been, if the designers had had a little more vision. Hell, just a sequence like this...give us MP with a room with random structures in it and falling damage and we'll see people get pwnd like none-other.

[absolut taco]

And remember Prey will have a sequel, so they can still introduce alot of portal gameplay in the future.
Let's hope they use something a bit better than the Doom3 engine then. UE3?

[HALO 32]

Let's hope they use something a bit better than the Doom3 engine then. UE3?

hey, whats wrong with the Doom engine !?!?!

[MasterEvilAce]

hey, whats wrong with the Doom engine !?!?!
Aside from everything defaultly looking plasticy, and the CRAZY amount of aliasing everywhere.. Nothing, really.

The aliasing is definitely a problem in Doom3.. It's nowhere as bad in any other game. One thing I love about the doom3 engine.. plasma effects and color holograms and all of that. Prey was *BEAUTIFUL*.. The gun that can change ammo types, and the alarm holograms on that walls.. looked brilliant to my eyes. Especially the skys and all of that.. near the end when the sky turns purple and blue.. I've never seen an environment look so good, yet so basic.

Also the character animations seem finer than in any other game. I don't know why. But when a creature runs at me in doom3 or quake, or prey.. I feel it's alive. It's quick but very smooth. Hl2 and other engines don't give me the same effect

[absolut taco]

hey, whats wrong with the Doom engine !?!?!
Maybe it's the dev's fault, but Doom3 runs better on the Xbox than Prey does on the 360. That pisses me off!