14th April 2005, 11:53 AM
Private Hudson Wrote:Meh, I wouldn't really agree with RE4 being comparable to HL2. It's definately behind it, just not that far.
The amazing thing about RE4 is that it doesn't use normal mapping and various other technical "cheats" to make it look good. When you see a baddie that looks like he was made out of a bajillion polys, that's because he was made out of a bajillion polys, not using normal mapping to look good. Doom 3 uses a lot of that (as do most great-looking games right now), and while it is effective it does look weird. Shadowing is odd, everything looks like it's made out of plastic, etc. Wood in RE4 looks like wood. And it's because they didn't use bump mapping and all kinds of shaders. That's the amazing thing about RE4.