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[SlimySnake]

This game came out of nowhere. Just wow.



It has the best snow effects and ray traced reflections ive seen in a game yet. Combat looks fun too. Facial animations during cutscenes and lip sync could use some work but the world looks beautiful.

 

[U n i o n 0015]

These ultra-realistic UE5 games that are just visual novels are starting to become their own subgenre...(Fort Solis, Nobody Wants to Die).

 

[Tokio Blues]

Yep, day one.

 

[Nankatsu]

Looks nice. Characters faces looked way too static during cutscenes though.

 

[Jamesb0ndjr]

I’m gonna call this bluff. I hope it’s great, but unknown studios with shadow drops with cutting edge tech doesn’t pass the smell test for me.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

First thing I'll do is turn off that terrible motion blur.

 

[CamHostage]

These ultra-realistic UE5 games that are just visual novels are starting to become their own subgenre...(Fort Solis, Nobody Wants to Die).

Uh, did you not see that there's a trailer?

Mechanically it's a hodgepodge of FPS and TPS (with a lot of context sensitive finishing moves) but it's a shooty-killy game.

Slow shooting, sure, so I guess I get why you're comparing this to "walking sim" games (it seems linear and scripted to me, but that may just be the trailer?) But it's still showing to be more an action game than a story game.

 

[Xtib81]

Idk, there's something that makes the game look a bit off. I Hope it's good though, that type of universe is my jam.

 

[CamHostage]

I’m gonna call this bluff. I hope it’s great, but unknown studios with shadow drops with cutting edge tech doesn’t pass the smell test for me.

Don't see a lot that's cutting edge? At least not on the dev's part; it's a lot of off-the-shelf UE5 and plug-ins at work (which still takes a lot of balancing and artistry, but a dev with a backer and knowhow could put a game like this together without going to extremes.)

Slimy called it NG AF, i get where he's coming from but I wouldn't go that far. The gaudy reflections are a fun over-blown FX addition but there's SS artifacts, doubt it's RT or needed to be. Snow, i didn't see anything particular going on (but I'm on my phone. Characters models are pretty good, i assume MetaHumans, and the lip sync works for the most part, but they don't have the control over the figures (or the budget) to avoid them looking very robotic and disconnected when in conversation with one another (the uncanny valley sure is an abyss.) Happy at least for there finally being some cloth physics in a new game, that's fun for me.

 

[LazyParrot]

This is gonna end up janky af.

 

[aclar00]

Facially graphics alone are nice, but the facial animation are mid (is that how the kids say mediocre?) The lipsync is off and the women's acting is fairly atrocious.

 

[Stuart360]

To be honest it looks very asset flippy. It looks very similar to these $4 games you get on Steam with all these shiny assets from asset packs (the gameplay parts i mean)

 

[tommib]

Looks like AI prompts. Are we sure they haven’t bridged Gork into UE5?

 

[Von Hugh]

I went from "oh!" to "eh..." quite quickly during watching that.

Animations look very janky. All the environments look like they are taken from those Humble Bundle "ten thousand 3D models and PBR materials for $10" packs.

Slap all the assets into UE5, use the standard shaders and lighting and call it a game.

 

[Deerock71]

I was not nearly as impressed as the OP. It looks like bloom lighting 2.0.

 

[Trogdor1123]

The environment looks very nice but it stops there. Everything else looks like it’s missing a bunch of animation

 

[Kurotri]

I like that it's set in Berlin instead of another American city. It looks intriguing, I hope it's more than just visual spectacle. It does look a little janky especially with the cutscenes but that's ok tbh. Thanks for sharing OP, I didn't see a single peep about this anywhere.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Yuck

Blurry over saturated graphics, the game.

Jank ass animations and models

SlimySnake being an authority on graphics is a joke

 

[twinspectre]

The only selling point is the graphic, I'm sure the gameplay will be sub par every clowns that push graphics over gameplay has something to hide.
"Gamers" are smar.....oh wait nvm.

 

[Fafalada]

Mechanically it's a hodgepodge of FPS and TPS (with a lot of context sensitive finishing moves) but it's a shooty-killy game.

Well to be fair - that doesn't preclude it from being a walking sim.
Eg. The Order 1866 was a shooty-killy game too - and still had much more in common with Senua's Saga than ... Gears of War (and I don't mean the game length).

 

[Loke]

Female protagonist be like:

 

[HRK69]

Yep, day one.

 

[SlimySnake]

Idk, there's something that makes the game look a bit off. I Hope it's good though, that type of universe is my jam.

Its the animations. The walking animations, the facial animations in the cutscenes, and even the running animations dont look as good as the visuals so it kind of starts to fail the eye test.

However, the enemy hit detection animations are pretty good and the mocapped takedowns feel raw and well animated so lets hope they can clean up the other animations come launch time.

The only selling point is the graphic, I'm sure the gameplay will be sub par every clowns that push graphics over gameplay has something to hide.
"Gamers" are smar.....oh wait nvm.

Game looks fun to me. It's both FPS and TPS, has some sick max payne style bullet time, the FPS gunplay looks fun too.

 

[Neilg]

The art direction is a mess. It's got all the UE5 technical features turned on but it's all over the place visually. Very little thought to environmental cinematography and layering, looks like they had someone make the environments and then tried to fit the game into them afterwards.

Animation looks dire too.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

The animations let the rest of it down, none of them are particularly good.

 

[damidu]

lol you guys are easily impressed i guess. its written AA all over it

 

[Little Chicken]

Why did they design a character who looks like she has a terrible addiction to fillers

 

[Moses85]

 

[SJRB]

Looks ridiculous and not in a good way.

We need to come op with a term for UE5 "try to impress with visuals" vaporware slop.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

2087 is the relase date?

 

[kikkis]

I think you guys are too critical on the AA angle. It's fine and not that different from AAA products.

 

[tommib]

Looks ridiculous and not in a good way.

We need to come op with a term for UE5 "try to impress with visuals" vaporware slop.

And the “narrative” trailer looks even more ridiculous.

 

[rodrigolfp]

2087 is the relase date?

With luck the date for the last patch fixing things.

 

[Quixz]

I don't think this looks great Pal, a mishmash of special effects like a tech demo.

 

[twinspectre]

Its the animations. The walking animations, the facial animations in the cutscenes, and even the running animations dont look as good as the visuals so it kind of starts to fail the eye test.

However, the enemy hit detection animations are pretty good and the mocapped takedowns feel raw and well animated so lets hope they can clean up the other animations come launch time.


Game looks fun to me. It's both FPS and TPS, has some sick max payne style bullet time, the FPS gunplay looks fun too.

You're free to buy it, but then don't complain about "Modern developers here, modern developers there", because as always, the market sucks because it is the customer that support scam.

 

[Corporal.Hicks]

I was impressed by the opening cutscene, but the gameplay part looks average to be honest. Maybe YT compression is to blame?

 

[twinspectre]

I don't think this looks great Pal, a mishmash of special effects like a tech demo.

The graphic gives me a sense of nausea.

 

[Holammer]

I exaggerate a pinch, but it looks like someone went to an asset store and cobbled together something over the weekend. Slapped vaseline over the screen and called it a day.

 

[Danjin44]

Something feels very off about that female character's face, it feels like she had plastic surgery on her face and the surgery didn't go well so she has hard time showing proper expression.

If its AA game then in my opinion they shouldn't have hyper realistic character models if the cant do proper face expression because its gonna look very wrong and uncanny valley.

 

[stn]

This is my jam, love the setting and vibe. I'll be happy enough if the game manages to be a good AA game.

 

[NikuNashi]

Tell me one unique bit of gameplay in the whole trailer? Just one.

 

[HL3.exe]

'Looks next-gen' has been my problem since the PS4 era.

Wish they have 'next-gen gameplay' too, instead of still feeling/playing like a PS360 game.

 

[StueyDuck]

looks like generic UE5 junk to me.

there's a bajillion shiny metal and megascan environment games.

just slap some models on the prebuilt UE 3rd person controller and bam

 

[Crayon]

Looks great, including the gameplay snippets.

 

[cyberheater]

Looks really good. UE5 continues to impress.

 

[Mahavastu]

I like that it's set in Berlin instead of another American city.

yeah, but it looks more like some random american city than Berlin, despite having some iconic places (eg. Brandenburg gate, TV Tower and Sanssouci). And I hope Berlin will even in 2087 not look like this...

Anyway, its just a game, so who cares

 

[Denton]

We have Deus Ex at home

...it looks like one of those fake UE5 "games", but hey, if it's real, might be fun. The dialogue is literally cliche after cliche which does not inspire much confidence.

 

[The_Observer]

I’m gonna call this bluff. I hope it’s great, but unknown studios with shadow drops with cutting edge tech doesn’t pass the smell test for me.

This. Looks like that typical scam games that never release.

 

[Loomy]

This...doesn't look great. If you pause it, sure. Looks like some very detailed models. But as soon as anything starts moving it just falls apart.

 

[Hero_Select]

Yeah.. no.. this looks terrible.