Mafia 2 PhysX demo trailer

[Wag]

http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/73139/PC/Mafia-II/Trailer/Mafia-II-PhysX-Demonstration/Flash-Video

Particularly, the Windows PC version of Mafia II will feature a thorough integration of NVIDIA PhysX and 3D Vision technology into 2K Czech’s Illusion Engine. The integration of PhysX and NVIDIA APEX technology, including the APEX Clothing and Particle modules, enable the city and personalities of Empire Bay to truly come alive on Windows PC. With the implementation of NVIDIA APEX Particles, players are engulfed in lifelike explosions that are bigger and brighter, including weapon fragments, in-game debris and destructible environments that are amplified in both quantity and realism through the integration of APEX Particles.


Weapon Effects: With PhysX, destructive areas emit APEX Particles from every surface in the game -- from dirt chunks, to sparks, to tile debris. These impact emitters have been created for over 20 surface types.

Glass Debris: Every piece of glass breaks into multiple smaller APEX particles. This can be seen on plate glass windows, solid chunks of glass, and car windows. Glass emits when you bash into a car door window or when a cop shoots out your back window from behind. These glass pieces fully interact with the environment and cars.

Debris from in-level objects: If you run over a trash can, hit a mail box, or tip over a dumpster, expect a large variety of physical chunks of trash and mail to litter the ground and remain.

Explosions: All of the above features realistically interact with explosions from cars, grenades and other in-game sequences, giving the user a high fidelity experience where the world is a total experience.

Apex Clothing: The main character and several secondary characters come clothed in APEX clothing. All of VITO’s outfits are fully clothed in APEX clothing, along with additional characters with flowing dresses and other trenchcoats.

Thought you guys might want to check this out.

 

[OCGuy]

Sweet!

 

[at80eighty]

Saw the physics trailer for MafiaII - looks great. intense feel

 

[manimal]

Looks good. Better than the physx demos for batman and Mirrors Edge did. Ill def play this on my 285 rig.

 

[Sylvanas]

I wonder what performance hit this will incur. Looks cool though.

 

[thilanliyan]

Are there any comparisons between PhysX and non-PhysX for Mafia II?

 

[Tsavo]

Are there any comparisons between PhysX and non-PhysX for Mafia II?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkUR9B8iWo

 

[Borealis7]

i wonder how many "if (card == ATI) { performance--; }" lines are in that game.

 

[Daedalus685]

I knew it would happen eventually.... A sequel to one of my all time favourite games was going to come out requiring some feature like physX... I say requiring as it will be a cold day in hell I buy a new game (assuming it turns out to be good) and not play it on max settings.

The worst part of all of this is that I don't have an open PCIe slot to stick in something for physX... I guess I could go back to MB sound? hmm... How are the hacked drivers working for physX lately? I don't really 'need' to upgrade to 1366 but sigh...

This better just be a matter of physX is cool in this game and no hidden "No AA sucker" BS.. Now then, 5870+something for physX and take the performance hit from my 4890s, upgrade the MB to give me more slots to work with and leave video the same as it is, buy a fermi and perhaps a secondary physX, or something else entirely...

 

[Attic]

Can't say i'm thrilled to read this. I would much rather have the devs working on game enhancing features that I could enjoy whether or not I went green or red.

Could be a lot of hype though.

Is the game going to have DX11 features?

 

[Skurge]

Wow!! Best use of Physx yet, now if only nV didn't lock out physx use with an ATi card present I would get a 9600GT or something.

But, I haven't seen anything that might be game changing, it still looks awesome though.

 

[Skurge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkur9b8iwo

lol

 

[Daedalus685]

Wow!! Best use of Physx yet, now if only nV didn't lock out physx use with an ATi card present I would get a 9600GT or something.

But, I haven't seen anything that might be game changing, it still looks awesome though.

As far as that lock goes.. are the 'modified' drivers still be created and still working?

I know I saw a bit ago the "bug" that caused gravity to be reversed if the physX found ATI present, modified or not.

I'd love to play this game with physX, it better be as good as the first, but I don't really want to use a gtx480 at this point or to support their lock out policy.

 

[Kenmitch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkUR9B8iWo

That was funny....But if nvidia had it's way that would be the Red teams experience.

I still don't see why nvidia had to nuke the physX with an ATI card as primary. Seems like if the greedy bastards only cared about money then it would be to the best interest of the company to enable it again. But I guess when you act like a spoiled baby it's your way or the high way!

 

[Dribble]

Impressive

 

[MrK6]

Max Payne did all of this nine years ago, not impressed.

 

[toyota]

I am not impressed either. it will probably take a massive framerate hit just to similar effects we have seen for many years.

 

[NoQuarter]

I might bust out an 8800GTS to check it out, been wanting to see how hard it is to set up the dedicated PhysX card hack w/Radeon primary but Batman didn't seem worth opening the case up.

 

[happy medium]

It's funny seeing all the threads about ATI hiring ex physx people.
Wonder why? Mabe they somehow see the value?
I think the game looked great.

I also wonder what type of card/s are needed for this game and the performance hit involved.

 

[Xarick]

Thats my only issue with physx. I really wanted it on my new card, but unless you run a higher end GPU the performance hit (even with a 470) is severe.

 

[motsm]

Max Payne did all of this nine years ago, not impressed.

Ha! no it didn't. Not even in any sense of similarity did it. That said, my thoughts about PhysX have been left somewhere else.

 

[happy medium]

It dosen't look that demanding, mabe a higher end card could handle the physx effects without a add in card?

9800gt or 4870? that don't make sense?

Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2 Ghz / AMD Athlon X2 @ 2.4 Ghz
Memory: 2 Gb
Hard Drive: 16 Gb free
Video Memory: 512 Mb
Video Card: nVidia 8400GS / ATI Radeon HD 2400
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive



Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows Vista/7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.5 Ghz / AMD Phenom X3 @ 2.5 Ghz
Memory: 3 Gb
Hard Drive: 20 Gb free
Video Memory: 1 Gb
Video Card: nVidia 9800GT / ATI Radeon HD 4870
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 10
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

 

[Patrick Wolf]

Without a non-physx comparison I don't see much to get excited about. Besides that, bullet hits wouldn't create a ton of debris like that. Then again it's a game so total realism is kinda moot. Glass and car explosion debris is alright though.

 

[MrK6]

Ha! no it didn't. Not even in any sense of similarity did it. That said, my thoughts about PhysX have been left somewhere else.

Yes it did, go play the game again and refresh yourself.

Environmental flying debris from firefights a la John Woo? Did it.

Waving trenchcoat? Did it.

Exploding vehicles? Did it.

Like I said, nine years later and nothing substantial has changed.

Without a non-physx comparison I don't see much to get excited about. Besides that, bullet hits wouldn't create a ton of debris like that. Then again it's a game so total realism is kinda moot. Glass and car explosion debris is alright though.

Yeah, the overdone crap gets kind of old as well.

 

[Chiropteran]

Max Payne did all of this nine years ago, not impressed.

I have to agree. I mean the graphics are a bit nicer, but I don't see anything groundbreaking here. Looks slightly better than a 9 year old game.