How Avalanche has handled this effect in both of the console builds will be interesting to see.Įarly impressions are that PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners have been well-served by Avalanche's code-smiths. Despite the 34 square kilometres of gameplay world available in the demo, water sources within the playable area are hard to locate (the available play area is so vast, we're still looking).
Transparency elements such as particles, clouds and explosions look very smooth indeed. The overall feel of the game is bolstered by an impressive lighting model, with smooth atmospheric effects. Jump into a chopper to reach stratospheric heights and check out the view: this sort of stunt was impressive in the first Just Cause, but it's been taken to a new level in the sequel.
The rendering distance of the gameworld is absolutely colossal, with an impressive level of detail retention even in the most faraway areas. Attaching your opponent to a barrel that's about to explode has its appeal, as does connecting them to a passing vehicle.īeyond the grappling, the key appeal of this game is its environments, and this is where the technology Avalanche has been working on comes to the fore. Sure, you can use it to pull opponents towards you, but the ingenuity of the grapple-gun comes down to its ability to link enemies and objects together. Its offensive capabilities are impressive too. You use it to winch yourself onto just about anywhere within the huge environments, or else to effortlessly hijack speeding vehicles. They were checking out the footage because Just Cause 2 looked like fun to play.Ĭentral to the game's appeal is the inclusion of an extremely long grappling hook. Interestingly this presentation wasn't about polygon counts, LOD biases or framebuffers. On a recent DF visit to a developer currently working on a triple-A title, Avalanche's videos were being showcased at a team meeting on a 50" plasma. It's exciting stuff - not just gamers, but for other game-makers too. Not that Avalanche's various gameplay vids aren't worth checking out, mind you: they effectively showcase the range of gameplay possibilities made possible by the tech.
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The arrival last Thursday of demo code for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gives us our first chance to properly evaluate the technology and performance of the respective console versions within the DF lair, away from the compromises of compressed internet video. Colossal open world? Ingenius physics-based gameplay? Epoch-making pyrotechnics? Check, check, check!
Just Cause 2 is a game that pushes all the right buttons for us here at Digital Foundry.
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