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Avalanche studios are set to demonstrate their new game engine at the Tokyo Game Show...
Avalanche studios are preparing to demonstrate the second version of their game engine at the Tokyo Game Show. This new instalment is designed to provide "advanced scalable landscapes and high end characterisation" specifically for next-gen machines.
The original Avalanche engine was pioneered for the Stockholm based companies in-house production Just Cause, which featured the fictional island 'San Esperito' which could be explored in a sandbox style by Rico Rodriguez with the help of a parachute and various flying machines.
Improvements to the Avalanche engine in this latest version include the support for the transition between different climate zones, and advancements to animation that provide more lifelike character models with advanced facial rendering and emotional modelling as well as improved AI. The new engine will allow Avalanche developers to create even more expansive environments than were previously possible under the first version.
Christofer Sundburg, Avalanche Studios CEO, commented on Avalanche 2.0: "Ultimately the engine will enable us to create games of epic scale and with great variation across genres and artistic styles for the next generation of gaming experiences. The latest screen shots speak for themselves, with detail that has never before been seen in characterisation and game landscaping."
Here at TVG, we believe there is just cause to believe - see what we did there? - that this new engine will be put to use on Avalanche's sequel to their million selling Just Cause title.
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Added:Sun 18th Apr 2010 20:48, Post No: 67
anonymous post 63 were you playing on the pc version using a 10 year old graphics card ect, what part of unrealistic dont you understand its not full of bugs thats the way it was designed and the developers have been saying this for ages just idiots like you just ignore podcasts ect.
please do enlighten us as to how alien vs preditor came about in your comments as its not even any thing like just cause 2, also wtf are you on about why would TVG reviw a demo well WHY come on you seam to think you know better than them dont you, also some thing i do expect youve over exagerated like shooting someone with a pistol and they go mailes from where you shot them stop chatting rubbish you obviously diddnt like the game and ill bet you diddnt even play the demo.
also other comments including the need for a longer grapling hook or thunder storms with lightning that strikes you is just stupid, the only place in the game where you get struck by lightning is on the secret island (located at X:2809m Y:2703m) has a secret wepon the japanese were working on (not to spoil it for anyone that hasnt done the mission yet even if its done very early in the game) and there is no need for a longer grapple if you cant use it then you must be dumb as for unrealistic stuff is when using the grapple on an enemy once there airborn shot them with a machine gun so many times to get the body juggler trophy/achievement.
as for what version is better graphicly its going to be the pc version hands down second to that is the ps3 version with its ability to motion capture any ingame action and upload straight to youtube so anyone with glitches or guides to completing tasks / missions can upload there gameplay for all to see then its the 360 version as the 360 doesnt have the same cool feature that the ps3 version has.
8/10 is a good score for this game and anyone who like anon 63 disagrees is just a retard, any game on this scale is going to have a tough time trying to get every thing done to please the die hards, graphics on a game like this shouldnt be the main focus as with all games the main focus should be on gameplay as the first and most important priority.
Added:Sun 18th Apr 2010 12:28, Post No: 66
needs to have a longer grapling hook
Added:Sun 18th Apr 2010 12:25, Post No: 65
thay should mack it have it so ween it has a thonder stom you can get hit by lighting any were in the map
Added:Thu 01st Apr 2010 13:29, Post No: 64
8/10 is a good score for this game.
Added:Thu 01st Apr 2010 01:04, Post No: 63
seriously? 8/10?
i can only assume you haven't found the stupidly many bugs that i found just playing the demo then? at least, you don't mention them in the review?
TVG, did you not notice:
you can walk down almost vertical cliffs?
sometimes when you shoot someone, with a handgun, the said person flies miles vertically up in the air and land miles away?
the pop-up it quite ridiculous and almost hampers finding places to land?
the shadows look like ps1 shadows?
the graphics in general are shoddy, especially when close up to textures?
the grapling hook is almost as impossible to use as playing as the alien in the new aliens-vs-predator.
christ, please tell me TVG that you wasn't PAID to give this game a high score? 8-((
Added:Sat 20th Feb 2010 13:48, Post No: 62
Awesome preview.. I've this game pre-ordered, The Limited Edition! :)
Added:Wed 01st Apr 2009 11:37, Post No: 61
FANBOY FIIIIGGGGHHT
Added:Wed 01st Apr 2009 09:30, Post No: 60
Ummm... the 360/PS3/PC versions look pretty much identical - have you seen the game running?
Added:Tue 31st Mar 2009 20:29, Post No: 59
unfortunatly justcause 2 wont be comming to the ps2 as its just not able to compete with the ps3 (though the ps2 still pisses all over the 360) but as the devs dont want loads of bugs in the game code they want to be able to update the game, maybe even offer expansions to it like fallout 3's expansions on the 360.
best of all though the ps3 version will look miles better than the 360 version end of argument the ps3 is the better console.
Added:Tue 31st Mar 2009 16:49, Post No: 58
'Tis a good game until one gets to the very end and is punished like crazy with over the top AI and just impossible-ness!.... A lil more balancing required me thinks! :)
~funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id)~