Anand's FEAR Article Up

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: theman
does anyone actually think that this game eats up these expensive cards because the graphics are good? i blame it on crappy software engineering. i certainly dont think the graphics are THAT amazing. hl2 was a great example of a game that had BEAUTIFUL grapics, and even i could max out the settings on my 6600gt. with fear, i have to decide what is better, pixelated, aliased graphics or incredibly low frame rates. i dont know if patches are going to fix this game.

Well the textures aren't anything special in the game but the reason it eats up so much framerate is because of the parallax mapping, lighting, shadows and pixel shader effects. I agree HL2 looked good but it didn't have nearly as many things going on at once either.

 

[aldamon]

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777
I agree, the game does look great. Even the pop cans and such are better detailed than any other game, including the big three that came out last year. I was very impressed by the demo.

The firefights are breathtaking, especially in slow-mo. Sometimes I put the game in bullet time against a single enemy just so I can take in the explosions and damage. Electrifying stuff in high quality.

 

[CaiNaM]

well, bright and cheeful graphics just wouldn't seem to fit the theme of this game.... i mean, it wasn't by accident they chose the story didn't take place in disneyworld...