Wow, I think my IQ dropped 10 points from reading some of the posts in this thread.
First off, yes, it is a major downgrade. Thats whats going to happen when you take a game that was nearing completion and then create a whole new engine for it. What SK did was abandon the UE3 (which has proven itself to becapable of absolutely fantastic looking games) and is now using a brand new in-house engine due to their problems with Epic.Its going to take a little while for Too Human to get back to looking as good as it did, and back when it was running on the UE3 it was much better looking than gears and probably even better looking than Mass Effect. Go check out some of the HD videos from a while back, the game looked fantastic. Its just the game has undergone such a drastic change when SK switched from the UE3 to the Too Human engine.
As for the $100 million spent in development for Too Human, thats spread out over the games entire lifetime and its various publishers. No one (sane anyway) is going to spend $100 million for one game that while good looking isn't going to be on a Halo level of success. Too Human has problably still been an expensive game for MS, but its not costing them $100 million.
And finally as for the whole SK vs. Epic case, personally I have to side with SK. Too Human has been in development for more or less the past 10 years and was scheduled for a late 2007/early 2008 release. I don't know about you guys, but if Iwas within months of finishing a project that has been bounced around between platforms and engines for the better part of a decade, I'm not going to switch engines again without a damn good reason. Why would SK want to draw out the development of Too Human even further by dropping the UE3 and starting from scratch for the 4th or 5th time? Unless the guys running SK are total masochists it just doesn't make any sense. Also since Too Human is published by MGS chances are MGS would have been involved in any dispute between Epic and SK before the lawsuit, and that would help explain the apparent bad blood between Epic and MS much better than whether or not some GearsDLC was free or not.
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