AMAZING Revolution game shots!

Giblet

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elmoco/124806830/
http://www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

Apparently these are not mock ups or renders. Seems too good to be true though.

Jimi-Spandex

zOMG!!


That does look fantastic. Must hunt around for a copy of the mag.

Rhyme

Mmmm... very nice. Seems like an awful lot of writing etc for a mock-up. My optimistic side says yes, my realistic side says wait for more.

Ciaran500

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054914609

flogen

Superb if they're genuine, Nintendo have a habit of making average specs do amazing things, I'd love it if their spec sheet looked alright on paper but could rival 360/ps3 in reality..

Jimi-Spandex

I think they're supposed to be "target renders", not what it looks like now, but what it should look like.

The Mad Hatter

Nice but...well they kinda proved with Gamecube that the best overall console won't win out. (and, yes, I know the X-box and PS2 are more powerful than the 'cube, but I always found the visuals on both systems flawed - PS2 came out blocky, and everything on X-box looked like it was made of plastic)

Goodshape

The Mad Hatter wrote:

Nice but...well they kinda proved with Gamecube that the best overall console won't win out. (and, yes, I know the X-box and PS2 are more powerful than the 'cube, but I always found the visuals on both systems flawed - PS2 came out blocky, and everything on X-box looked like it was made of plastic)

'Cube was better than the PS2 on paper.

Retr0gamer

The cube was a far more powerful system than the PS2.

projectmayhem

Retr0gamer wrote:

The cube was a far more powerful system than the PS2.

but it didn't have the significant list of great AAA titles linked to it to keep it afloat of the ps2.

this gen nintendo are playing a very good game. ps3 will have all the AAA titles, and will be more powerful... so nintendo playing the "we're different" card should work a charm

garthv

Nintendo were never the ones to advertise that their systems can do "one million billion terraflops a millisecond". They always go for gameplay over graphics, which, in my view is the way a gaming company should be.

Xbox 360 and the ps3 are both aiming for the greatest and best graphics out there while their gameplay suffers dramatically. Im not too pushed on the revoluition specs, all I know is that I cant wait to get my hands on one

RichyX

GaRtH_V wrote:

Nintendo were never the ones to advertise that their systems can do "one million billion terraflops a millisecond". They always go for gameplay over graphics

What about the N64 TV ads we had here?

"The N64 is more powerful then the computers that sent man to the moon" or somesuch bollox.

garthv

RichyX wrote:

What about the N64 TV ads we had here?

"The N64 is more powerful then the computers that sent man to the moon" or somesuch bollox.

Well it was true

Retr0gamer

My Commodore 64 was more powerful than the computers that sent man to the moon.

The N64 and Snes were advertised as the the most powerful consoles out.

mcgarnicle

Wow, a new Time Crises clone, the revolution is truly here. Seriously everyone knew that there would be some fps out the second they saw the joypad, wouldn't it have been a better idea to show off something that was actually revolutionary as the first rev screenshots.

flogen

mcgarnicle wrote:

Wow, a new Time Crises clone, the revolution is truly here. Seriously everyone knew that there would be some fps out the second they saw the joypad, wouldn't it have been a better idea to show off something that was actually revolutionary as the first rev screenshots.

Time Crisis? Good comparison there... :rolleyes:

Firstly, an FPS of this nature is pretty unusual for a Nintendo console, excluding Metroid they just don't happen that often.
Secondly, I imagine Nintendo will be the first to unveil an unexpected use of the controller.
Thirdly, just because people know thered be an FPS doesn't take away from the impact of the game, reading the features and looking at the graphics make it seem original, and a lot of that doesn't involve the use of the controller

Goodshape

mcgarnicle wrote:

Wow, a new Time Crises clone, the revolution is truly here. Seriously everyone knew that there would be some fps out the second they saw the joypad, wouldn't it have been a better idea to show off something that was actually revolutionary as the first rev screenshots.

Yea, I agree. Reminded of all those countless other games which allow me to aim a gun, slash, stab and block with a sword and look around the level just by moving my hand in the right direction. Totally old-hat alright.

FOR GODS SAKE NINTENDO!!! GIVE US SOMETHING NEW FOR A CHANGE!!!1one

projectmayhem

mcgarnicle wrote:

Wow, a new Time Crises clone, the revolution is truly here. Seriously everyone knew that there would be some fps out the second they saw the joypad, wouldn't it have been a better idea to show off something that was actually revolutionary as the first rev screenshots.

time crisis doesn't exactly work the same as "free moving" fps games, it's an arcade game more then an fps. anyway, nintendo didn't release these screens, ubisoft did.

mcgarnicle

flogen wrote:

Time Crisis? Good comparison there... :rolleyes:

Firstly, an FPS of this nature is pretty unusual for a Nintendo console, excluding Metroid they just don't happen that often.
Secondly, I imagine Nintendo will be the first to unveil an unexpected use of the controller.
Thirdly, just because people know thered be an FPS doesn't take away from the impact of the game, reading the features and looking at the graphics make it seem original, and a lot of that doesn't involve the use of the controller

Firstly there are plenty of shooters on the cube, they might be rubbish but they are still there ie Call of Duty, Timesplitters, James Bond etc. Still a new genre on a Nintendo console is hardly a revolution.
Secondly I'm sure they will and that is my point, wouldn't it have been a better idea, after months of people speculating, for the first glimpse of a game to be something a bit more impressive than an fps with a different play mechanic.
Thirdly, what impact? You control a gun on the screen by moving your hand about, you mean like every pc fps then? How is this revolutionary?

Goodshape wrote:

Yea, I agree. Reminded of all those countless other games which allow me to aim a gun, slash, stab and block with a sword and look around the level just by moving my hand in the right direction. Totally old-hat alright.

FOR GODS SAKE NINTENDO!!! GIVE US SOMETHING NEW FOR A CHANGE!!!1one

So you move your hand to aim an on screen hand, to be honest the idea sounds rubbish. Using a light gun seems far more satisfying. As for using your hand to move a sword, http://saber-mania.freeonlinegames.com/ it might be a crappy example but I can't see how it is either exciting or revolutionary. I'm pretty sure there was some old star wars arcade game where you did the same thing.

mcgarnicle

projectmayhem wrote:

time crisis doesn't exactly work the same as "free moving" fps games, it's an arcade game more then an fps. anyway, nintendo didn't release these screens, ubisoft did.

I'm sure Nintendo could have stopped Ubisoft from releasing them. I just think that after months of waiting to see some Rev screenshots that this is a big let down.

Just to clarify, I will be getting a Revolution on day 1, no doubt about it. But I want to see something that fits the name revolution, this isn't it.

the corpo

what heartens me is that if this is the quality of a first gen thirdy party title, how amazing will nintendos in house efforts be??

Goodshape

I can see where your sceptisism is coming from mcgarnicle, but I don't share it. The comparisons you pointed to aren't really the same thing -- a two dimensional mouse, or even a light gun, vs a three dimesnsional gyscopic controler... not the same.

It's not simply a matter of moving left by pointing to the left side of the screen, by the sounds of things it's going to be possible to hold your sword/weapon-of-choice at a 45-degree angle simply by turning your hand 45-degrees in the air.. and stab and slice simply by, well, stabing and slicing.

Moving a mouse around on a flat surface doesn't compare to that.


(the pictures aren't really the beauty part of this new info, as nintendo have always said, the interesting stuff is in the explinations of how it works. lot more info in this thread)

Retr0gamer

Well I have to say it's the most original game I've seen on the next gen machines and the only one to excite me. Everything else is 'same old, same old' except with prettier. This game adds something totally radical, a new way of controlling an FPS that could be more natural than using a mouse.

deadduck

mcgarnicle wrote:

Firstly there are plenty of shooters on the cube, they might be rubbish but they are still there ie Call of Duty, Timesplitters, James Bond etc.

ah come on now, timesplitters isn't a bad game at all.