that pic with all of the people shows of the cell, (south park reference) niice

I certainly hope that killzone looks better than this. These screen shots look like tomb raider from a year ago. There is very little detail in the backgrounds, and the female lead looks like a fish. I hope they can step things up before they release this one.

I am not a hater, just expect more. Compare this to screens of Genji, a game that launched with the system, and you'll see that genji looks better, much better. I want this game to be good, and I know that screens are hardly ever indicative of how good a game is going to look, but these screens are definetly a let down, given the awsome video shown at E3 last year. Just hoping they can get it looking real good by release.

...not great imo. Hopefully the gameplay will be great.



Also, is it me, but does the lighting seemed toned down from the HDR goodness of before? If looks kind of... flat in comparison (like an old PC game).



http://ps3.qj.net/Marco-Salvi-of-Heavenly-Sword-on-High-Dynamic-Range-Lighting/pg/49/aid/56981

This game is shapping up great, can't wait for it, looks like itll be really fun and it looks good graphically and woah fanboys and haters come here so quick...do you guys sit around here waiting for something to bash? i was on like 20 other sites with these pictures and everyone loved them..and how come fanboys always do the same thing start with "im not a fanboy" etc etc, but anyways stop being so immature and looks like xbox? even if it didnt look great its by no means that bad, you guys are honestly blind if you think its that bad, proof of some of you being fanboys

this game using those low resolution screens. Heavenly Sword will be amazing both graphical and gameplay-wise. This is one of Sony new flagship IPs, so they are going to do whatever be necessary to make it awesome, the same with Killzone 2. Mark my words.

lol... u sad sad little xbots...welcome back lol... this game looks amazing... this will be the next goddess of war... n if there is a sequel...mmmmm... heavenly sword.. lair.. mgs4 ... ff13.. warhawk.. killzone... god of war 3..mmmmmmmm....

they are weakbox 180 fans, there are many game testers and interviewers that said that the game now looks better than in e3 05 and the 180 didnt have anything that looked better that it or any other thing that sony showed and it doesnt now

Wow after 2 years more development they made the game look better? That's all the proof I need, I'm going to blow $660 on a promise of a good game coming from sony and their loyal army of brainwashed fantards.

I am not an xbot, just a fan of video games who wants them to get the exlusives done right. These games need to be the best they can be. I don't want to be able to find a subistitute on another console, not in look, or play, or feel. I just really hope that they can make this one stand out like God of War has. As far as Gears is concerned, if you trash that game, you are an idot. Thats like trashing Metal Gear Solid or Halo or Gran Turismo, you'd have to be a stupid fanboy to trash a game that has already been released and that rocks.

The screenshots sure don't look better. You can see each polygon in the background.

It does look better than the 360's launch games though, keep it up being a year behind.

You need to stop using others' names.

This is a forum for discussing games and systems. This is not for impersonating others and insulting each other. Cease and desist or your IP address will be banned.

Yes Crow, you have been doing this for a long time.

"doesn't have that super dark over saturated contrast to cover up missing minute details like all titles on the 360"



Firstly, it's obvious you're not Mister Common Sense. But the idea that certain 360 games are darker to hide low details comes from the least intelligent gamers on forums, gamers like yourself in fact.



It is immediately obvious from previews, reviews and head-to-heads that this idea is stupid and wrong, and a simple adjustment of the TV's contrast and brightness reveals that the textures in 360 games are equally detailed (of course, when I say a simple adjustment, I mean for the average gamer, since it's way too complicated for you).

"It does look better than the 360's launch games though"



But this is not a PS3 launch game, and it's been in developement since 2004. :|

I only wish I was as lonely and desperate as this guy who impersonates others. It's like he has nothing to argue back and makes low brow insults instead. A true role model to PS3 fans everywhere. I mean if what Mr. Common Sense said really had no merit, why can't people just ignore him?



Mr. Common Sense must be really getting under your skin. Can I join your fantard cult? I can call people names too!



You're a sh*t faced co*kmaster! See! I'm the smartest! Cheers! what a gay expression.

Hi Everybody,

First off, let me start by saying that I own both consoles:

[1] PS3 - bought in Feb 2007 - own RFOM, have played Untold Legends, Motorstorm demo (game is checked out at local Blockbuster's), and am currently playing Oblivion. Also own a few Blu-ray movies (Casino Royale's one of them)

[2] XBox 360 - bought in Mar 2006 - own Kameo, Perfect Dark Zero, PGR, GRAW, Dead Rising, and Oblivion, and have played COD2, COD3, and some others I can't recollect at the moment.



I enjoy both systems and their games. I have played GeOW, and think the game rocks. I also think RFOM is superb and quite unnerving at times, esp when the Leapers & Crawlers rush in at you in hordes.



I do have to say this about the screenshots of Heavenly Sword that I see here - that the textures do seem kind of flat, as if there is not enough depth. Then again, this screenshot is not my 40-in HD TV screen, so I could be mistaken. Also, if there is an issue with the graphics, I do hope that it's taken care of before release.



That being said, in the PS3 vs XBox 360 issue, I stand firmly on the PS3 side, even though I do enjoy my XBox 360 and its games. There are a few reasons for this:



1) Technical Aspects: I'm a Software Developer (not games) and too often I see products getting go-live or released before sufficient testing, and I can say this about PS3 - to the best of my knowledge, PS3 has relatively few or no technical issues, while the 360 has more than its share of these - noise while playing, humongous ugly Power Supply which must be kept in an airy space at all times for it to survive, poor DVD play (I have compared this myself, so don't bother coming back and saying that I'm just putting down what I've read on other websites), and several times, when I try to play a game, it will come up with some weird error saying that this DVD is meant for an XBox 360 and should be put in one. I've not listed the red rings error, even though, judging by posts on the Internet, and local news (I live in Chicago and read that one person actually sued MS for this) because I've not encountered this issue yet. As compared to this, since I've bought my PS3, I've played it quite extensively - RFOM twice, UL, Oblivion, and the total number of times I've encountered a disc-read error on the PS3 is 2 times.

I personally think that the 360 is a product which was rushed to market SOLELY to get a headstart, and they hoped that most issues would be fixed by the time PS3 came out, and that, as people have a short memory, they would have forgotten all the issues that the 360 had when it came out and had for quite a while. Apparently, judging from the adulation that XBox fanatics give to their console of choice (or maybe console of necessity - depending upon their wallets), Microsoft was right. Thus, even though Microsoft took the same approach for the 360 that they adopted for all versions of their Operating Systems (Release First, Fix Later), they seem to have succeeded for the time-being.

And this is my gripe about the system, that a system like 360 which had a lot of bugs, and is currently ahead just because it rushed out the door first (it is my belief that had both come out within weeks of each other, even with the price difference, people would have been forced to choose between the PS3 & 360, instead of buying the 360 as it was the only one out; as it was, when the Wii & PS3 came out, it was too late for people who had already invested 400+ USD to spend 500+ more, thus resulting in the Wii's popularity at launch), is causing a superlative piece of hardware like the PS3 to be ignored by non-exclusive developers. The reason I say this is because in any non-exclusive game, the Least Common Denominator wins out in terms of graphics, and sadly, in this case, it is the 360. Don't get me wrong, the 360 is a very good piece of hardware and firmware - it's just that it could have been better. Right now, and at least until the next generation of hardware, the PS3 is the better piece of hardware.



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"So what you're saying is that Xbots and all the writers reviewing for the 360 alike do not know how to adjust the contrast of their screenshots? Yesss, that makes sense..."



Hmmm, what are you trying to say? It's not that they don't know how, it's that there's NO NEED to adjust them. Hence I agree with Gamer on this point.



I've seen numerous gamers on this forum claiming that the 360 looks darker in multi-format games because the devs are hiding lower resolution textures. I've seen this said about Armoured Core 4, COD3 and a few other games. And yet, you can take screenshots of the 360 and PS3 versions of those games, adjust the contrast and see that the textures are the same!



So this claim doesn't come from available facts, it comes from those who are too insecure to accept that maybe, just maybe, the colours and contrast are a little better on the 360 than the PS3. This may be due to the GPUs, it may be due to the port (since VGA output on the 360 also makes games look a bit washed out), but whatever the reasons, the graphics of these games are richer on the 360 compared to the PS3.

The pics are very poor in Resolution but this game looks pretty amazing, even the guy from lord of the rings is there.... for those who said that Resistence is the best game so far for the ps3 you are a Shooter lover so go play with you mini gun and stop saying that MGS4 and FF are the hope because I don't like FF, because I'm not a RPG gamer.....next time you say I don't like not Crap.

its gonna pwn...trust me