For a first party game GOW III has bad graphics, and heres why.

Sony decided to put the game in 1080p instead of 720p, so what your left with is low res soft textures. That is why it just looks OKAY. They should have put it in 720p and high res crisp textures.

i think you will have an option to play it in 720p with better textures.

I think it looks pretty sick, but I haven't been able to try the demo yet

I'm downloading the demo as we speak, I'll let you know if I agree or not when I get to play it.

Who cares, wipeoutHD looks great in 1080p, even thouh the game isn't strictly speaking that good looking - it's the resolution.

I got a friend to dump XBOX 360 and grab a PS3 off of the GOW3 E3 demo so it looks pretty good I'm guessing. I understand however XBOX Fanboys I would be upset as well if I saw a game like that and knew it was never coming to my system.

graphically its halfway decent.

first off can anyone confirm the 1080p or 60fps? because as far as i know the demo is 720p

but from direct screens from the guys at beyond3d the textures are average theyre on par, some weak ones here and there but overall not bad, the character models are good but no wheres near as good as what was promised, theres AA issues galore, the object quality of the environment is average, the lighting is mediocre over using bloom.

so no theyre not bad, theyre just nothing special or great.

In what world does GOW III have bad graphics :?

graphically its halfway decent.

first off can anyone confirm the 1080p or 60fps? because as far as i know the demo is 720p

but from direct screens from the guys at beyond3d the textures are average theyre on par, some weak ones here and there but overall not bad, the character models are good but no wheres near as good as what was promised, theres AA issues galore, the object quality of the environment is average, the lighting is mediocre over using bloom.

so no theyre not bad, theyre just nothing special or great.

washd123

It is 720p 30 fps. I dunno where he is getting his source.

nhh18

it was claimed to be 1080p 60fps originally. i remeber some reporter or was it gaffe himself claiming they saw the video and it was stunning and in 1080p

[QUOTE="washd123"]

graphically its halfway decent.

first off can anyone confirm the 1080p or 60fps? because as far as i know the demo is 720p

but from direct screens from the guys at beyond3d the textures are average theyre on par, some weak ones here and there but overall not bad, the character models are good but no wheres near as good as what was promised, theres AA issues galore, the object quality of the environment is average, the lighting is mediocre over using bloom.

so no theyre not bad, theyre just nothing special or great.

nhh18

its more then 30fps in some scenes just like MGS4...it wont dip any lower but it can go up to 60 in some parts...atleast i remember the devs saying that somewherestereointegrity

actually thats wrong.

when developers lock a game at a framerate it never goes over not never goes under. it certainly does go under.

[QUOTE="stereointegrity"]its more then 30fps in some scenes just like MGS4...it wont dip any lower but it can go up to 60 in some parts...atleast i remember the devs saying that somewherewashd123

actually thats wrong.

when developers lock a game at a framerate it never goes over not never goes under. it certainly does go under.

its not locked at 30stereointegrity

but im saying it will go under.

if its not locked then it can go over but it can also go under.

here is the artic....like i said its not locked

HERE

[QUOTE="stereointegrity"]its not locked at 30washd123

but im saying it will go under.

if its not locked then it can go over but it can also go under.

[QUOTE="nhh18"]

[QUOTE="washd123"]

graphically its halfway decent.

first off can anyone confirm the 1080p or 60fps? because as far as i know the demo is 720p

but from direct screens from the guys at beyond3d the textures are average theyre on par, some weak ones here and there but overall not bad, the character models are good but no wheres near as good as what was promised, theres AA issues galore, the object quality of the environment is average, the lighting is mediocre over using bloom.

so no theyre not bad, theyre just nothing special or great.

stereointegrity

[QUOTE="stereointegrity"][QUOTE="nhh18"]It is 720p 30 fps. I dunno where he is getting his source.

nhh18

here....

stereointegrity

i havnt played the demo so i cant speak on that but from the e3 videos and others i watched there were times when slowdown was very noticeable and yes below 30fps, during scenes with a lot of enemies (which if this is still present just shows bad optimization on their part since all the enemies are carbon clones with rudimentery AI), so unless its fixed theyre lying.

[QUOTE="stereointegrity"]

here....

washd123

i havnt played the demo so i cant speak on that but from the e3 videos and others i watched there were times when slowdown was very noticeable and yes below 30fps, during scenes with a lot of enemies (which if this is still present just shows bad optimization on their part since all the enemies are carbon clones with rudimentery AI), so unless its fixed theyre lying.

Does anyone realize that the demo is from e3? e3 was in june, almost 5 months ago. GOW has months untill its released. If you dont think it looks better now you are crazy.

I have the God of War 3 demo, and in no fashion does it look bad. It's one of the better looking games I've played this year. Huge step up from the PS2 games, especially in regards to the laughable looking NPCs.

i think you will have an option to play it in 720p with better textures.

ZoomZoom2490

Look herehttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-godofwar3-performance-blog-post

graphically its halfway decent.

first off can anyone confirm the 1080p or 60fps? because as far as i know the demo is 720p

but from direct screens from the guys at beyond3d the textures are average theyre on par, some weak ones here and there but overall not bad, the character models are good but no wheres near as good as what was promised, theres AA issues galore, the object quality of the environment is average, the lighting is mediocre over using bloom.

so no theyre not bad, theyre just nothing special or great.

[QUOTE="washd123"]

[QUOTE="stereointegrity"]

here....

stereointegrity

i havnt played the demo so i cant speak on that but from the e3 videos and others i watched there were times when slowdown was very noticeable and yes below 30fps, during scenes with a lot of enemies (which if this is still present just shows bad optimization on their part since all the enemies are carbon clones with rudimentery AI), so unless its fixed theyre lying.

[QUOTE="stereointegrity"][QUOTE="washd123"]

i havnt played the demo so i cant speak on that but from the e3 videos and others i watched there were times when slowdown was very noticeable and yes below 30fps, during scenes with a lot of enemies (which if this is still present just shows bad optimization on their part since all the enemies are carbon clones with rudimentery AI), so unless its fixed theyre lying.

DragonfireXZ95

The average frame rate is 38, and it goes as high as 56, and the low is 24. I got all that from this link

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-godofwar3-performance-blog-post

Thats what I heard on the PS3 vs 360 video on youtube, but if thats not true than wow, it's even worse than I thought if it's 720 with those low res textures, thats even worse. The games graphics still look GOOD. But a game of this caliber and budget should def look better is all im saying.digitalman42

it was supposed to be. but its not. and again its not bad its just nothing impressive.

i mean add to all those things i mentioned the fact that it has no physics at all (confirmed by the dev) and the AI is like i said rudimentary at best, and the technical aspects simply arent that impressive at all.

people had this notion that the devs were some kind of technical gods (lol) after GOWII even though that game was more impressive due to the art rather tha nthe actual tech.

Ugh, after playing the demo (old one at that), I can honestly say that GoWIII looks damned good. And I say that after playing the best looking games on consoles this gen.

So in short, I disagree.

GOW3 Graphics = Average???....or heck slightly above average???

For those who don't know about the GOW devs, Sony Santa Monica, read up on them......this is the thing about Sony's 1st party Devs...they will continue to one up each other after every release.......when GOW3 releases early next year, it will be the console graphics king.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-godofwar3-performance-blog-post

The texture work is of an outstanding quality throughout, special effects are used in a subtle and reserved manner, lighting is exemplary. The code appears to be using 2x multisamping anti-aliasing, but similar to Killzone 2, the choice of colour palette helps in adding to the edge-smoothing effect.

And:

Sony decided to put the game in 1080p instead of 720p, so what your left with is low res soft textures. That is why it just looks OKAY. They should have put it in 720p and high res crisp textures.

digitalman42

TC, did you watch this video?

Because you said pretty much exactly the same thing as the the guy in that vid lol

For a graphics comparison between the major first party games of Sony and Microsoft, GOW3 looks better than halo 3.

the game gets better and better looking.

[QUOTE="stereointegrity"]its more then 30fps in some scenes just like MGS4...it wont dip any lower but it can go up to 60 in some parts...atleast i remember the devs saying that somewherewashd123

actually thats wrong.

when developers lock a game at a framerate it never goes over not never goes under. it certainly does go under.

They aren't locking the framerate.

Who say GOWIII is 1080p? The Demo is 720p.

I'm one who cares for graphics, but some people go over the edge.

If a game plays good at 30 fps, what's the problem? Anything under PC level is just mediocre?

God of war 3 does not have bad graphics :?

Stringerboy

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God of war 3 does not have bad graphics :?

themyth01

To think that some people (not you) actually believe this blows my mind.

Finally got to play the demo and it looks pretty good but there is plenty of room for improvements. The demo did tell you that it's from the E3 2009 build, so I hope the graphics does get better and have a faster framerate.