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Quote:GamesIndustry.biz: One question on the lips of many people at the moment: how much of what we saw in the PlayStation 3 demos was actually running in real-time?

Phil Harrison: Everything in the demos was real-time.

And what about the game footage clips?

Not all of that - in fact, none of it was real-time because it was all running off video. If you make a presentation to two and a half thousand people, you're going to put some of it on video just to be on the safe side.

I've been asked this question a lot. The way we put those videos together, everything was done to specification. Everything was done to PS3 spec. Virtually everything used in-game assets; some things were rendered.

How representative of what we're actually going to be seeing in PS3 games were those videos?

I think very. I think depending on the game, different games took a different approach to their way of expressing what the games are like - but clearly, something like Motor Storm uses more cinematic, replay-like cameras than you would ever enjoy in-game. So that makes a big difference... But everything is done to spec.

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Quote:Is the Killzone sequence a fair example of what people can expect from realtime gameplay on PlayStation 3?
Jan-Bart: Yeah, it's basically a representation of the look and feel of the game we're trying to make.

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And just today during a G4 interview with the Sony VP Marketing Director he commented it was actual gameplay, and it's going to play exactly like that.

Yes, there's quite a bit of confusion as to whether Killzone 2 [and a lot of the other videos] were actually being rendered by a PS3 are merely CG.

So... we have the big console showdown and nobody brought their guns. PS3 and XBox atleast showed pre-rendered stuff of what is 'possible' but nothing concrete.

That wont stop the masses from thinking that's how the games will look though.

At least they commensed in the entire real purpose of the show, mental control of the masses.

Yes, DJ, that's pretty much exactly the purpose of E3... style and flash. Substance can come later.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/26/commenta.../index.htm

smoke and mirrors, indeed... :)

In a word, no.

And, as that article says, about as likely to show up in actual PS3 games as stuff as good as that robot did in X-Box games. :)

I waisnt impressed that much, To be honnest.

Yah I do remeber alot of hype of the PS2 that never materialised, I even fed into it then.