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God of War III lead designer talks graphics and development

Posted Jun 18, 2009 at 1:02PM EST by Glenn M.

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Australia, Framerate, Kratos, Naughty Dog, PS2, Sony

IGN Australia managed to catch up with God of War III lead designer Todd Papy and the short interview shed some light on the graphical and technical aspects of Kratos and his knack for killing everything that moves. Since the dev team has a lot of PS3 power to work with, Papy has plenty of room to leanr, to polish, and to share knowledge with other developers.

"Well, we're in LA, so there are a lot of game developers in the area," he said, mentioning his frequent trips to Naughty Dog, which is a convenient five-minute walk from their studio. Insomniac is also nearby, which only down the road in Burbank. "...so we have that luxury of being in amongst Sony developers out there Â– and they're always in our office and we're in their office!" he exclaimed.

Since God of War III would be Kratos' debut on the PS3, the mighty god-slayer will have to undergo several changes from his PS2 beginnings. "Well, just working on the visuals on PS3 hardware, making that jump from PS2 to PS3 was a huge challenge. We're still learning new technologies and new tools and we're very, very happy with the outcome of the demo," Papy said.

Framerate also became an issue, since the dev team was faced with the balancing framerate and environmental detail. "Our framerate is variable between 30 and 60 [frames per second] and so far the reaction on the framerate from players has been that it looks really good and plays really good," he said. " Well, we want to achieve a balance of the two, right? We want the game to look amazing and play amazing!"

And as far as amazing goes, Todd Pappy is very proud of their work with Kratos' massive new buddies. "I think the centrepiece is definitely the Titans Â–and I know Stig from the studio's already been talking about this, so it isn't new information or anything, but it really is the Titans. Dude, they're huge. That's it Â– you'll love it." Papy also adds that we'll be seeing "a few" of them in action. We've already seen Atlas, and some of the trailers were on Gaia's massive foresty back.

Massive like the Titans, the PS2-to-PS3 transition would no doubt feature a graphics boost, and Papy is confident with what they've got so far:

I kinda always wanna show off the art, but from the design side, there are new items, new weapons Â– and for the blades, there are all kinds of new moves. But the graphical effects play to this as well; when you're playing through something and you're like "oh, I've seen this before," we'll add all kinds of new effects and animations to them. They feel new again.

My eyes are already itching to see what those are, and I bet yours are doing the same.

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I'm glad they are going to make the game in 1080p. To me 1080p at 30 frames per second is just fine, but I'm happy to hear that they want to get 60 frames per second out of it. I wish more developers would do better and make their games at 1080p. I guess though 720p is ok if the game can run at 60 frames per second, if the game requires fast paced action such as racing games.

# .. — Popson 2009-06-19 03:56

Easier said than done. Killzone 2 for example, was in development solely for the ps3, for 4 years, and they weren't able to pull off 1080P.

I disagree on what you think about racing games, the only objects that need high polygon count are the cars (relative to everything else). The atmosphere doesn't need much. This is probably why GT5 can run at 60fps 1080P and still look amazing.

# Popson, so what are you saying? — GUNBEHINDTHESUN 2009-06-20 04:29

Like Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, i'm pretty sure has pretty high polygon count on vehicles and the environments, but of course the vehicles have less than Gran Tourismo, but Gran Tourismo's environments look pretty good, but they are very plain so yes, a game with higher polygon count, will probably have to have lower resolution.

# So.. what are you saying? — Popson 2009-06-26 10:15

I'm saying racing games do not need as detailed environments to look good since they're in motion at a relatively far distance.

On the other hand an action game needs far more detail in the up-close environment, so naturally it will be harder to pull of 60fps 1080p.

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