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[Comandr]

Some aspects were nice but it looks rough/early and the animation was AWFUL across the board. Jesus.

 

[lh032]

that pornstar face, noice.!

 

[Jack Package]

Uncanny valley as fuck.

This will definitely have a big time, Watchdogs-style graphical downgrade by the time it eventually releases. I do like me a good cyberpunk adventure, mind you!

 

[mnkl13]

looks like a bladerunner spinoff or something like that.

i would like to see a thread of this girl vs the one from star wars outlaws and see who do people prefer

 

[ResilientBanana]

Looks janky but looks more like perfect dark than perfect dark zero.

 

[Frwrd]

Hold on, let me check this Madison Beer trailer-ass...


Update: ...ehhh, lol.
Like everyone else stated, lip sync looks funny, some animations look like they need some work which is fair considering this must be very early in development.

Hopefully this turns out to be a Deus Ex type-game.

Spoiler: Observation

That guy definitely trying to find out how bad them lips grip

 

[M.W.]

That was played on a PC I presume lol

 

[Hawking Radiation]

 

[BrentonB]

Next Gen Eurojank. I am ready.

 

[GermanZepp]

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.

 

[fart town usa]

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.

 

[Dorfdad]

I’d rather play secret of mana on snes over graphics intensive games with zero soul!

 

[Shodai]

I see potential, but they need to avoid uncanny valley during gameplay.

 

[onQ123]

Looks weird actually like Max Payne in the future

 

[TGO]

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.

Exactly what thought.
Graphically it looks stunning but they must of had a DEI hire on the animations.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Neo berlin isn't as mainstream as cyberpunk.

 

[PsyEd]

Hope someone does a Neo/Wick character mod for this...didn't know about the 3p when I wish listed it a while back. Looking forward to it

 

[Wishmaster92]

Graphics look great up until the animation. Clearly not using motion matching. Lots of these UE games have some jank ass animations that really put off the whole visuals

 

[Imtjnotu]

This looks like shit

 

[E-Cat]

Cutscenes are uncanny valley af

Gameplay looks cool

Sony E3 2005 conference pre-rendered look finally achieved

 

[Sgt.Asher]

It's doing that weird lip stretching thing as starfield, the noot noot animation.

 

[Radical_3d]

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

Somebody did not watch the trailer.

I want to make something clear: the animations look hand made and robotic. As if there were no humans involved in the mo-cap. But that’s what we Europeans call Germans. You’ll get used to it.

 

[Spukc]

Female protagonist be like:

 

[Trunx81]

Way to clean streets. That’s not Berlin. Where is the graffiti?

 

[RainyNguyen]

Lmao...next gen? Looks generic af

 

[Negotiator101]

Yeah not impressed at all, the animation is awful, guy looks like he's floating around, the models are decently detailed as are the environments but I'm not seeing anything close to next gen especially post Hellblade 2 and AW2 to a lesser extent.

 

[Negotiator101]

Lmao...next gen? Looks generic af

Slimysnake must be half asleep watching this because he's usually pretty good at picking great looking games.

 

[Moses85]

Looks janky but looks more like perfect dark than perfect dark zero.

 

[Outlier]

Looks both amazing and horrible, at the same time.
In stills, it looks fantastic. It motion, it looks...
Needs work, obviously. hope the devs get it to an acceptable state.

 

[Kupfer]

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.

To be honest; they don't play out much "Berlin", apart from the name. Could play anywhere else. There's not even any German lettering.

But maybe it's not even set in Germany and "Neo Berlin" is set on a completely different continent / planet / space station / ecosystem, just like "New York" isn't set in the United Kingdom.

It plays with familiar and popular probes and wants to hype the audience.

Starting directly with a protagonist who, in my opinion, looks a lot like Ana de Armas from Blade Runner 2049, who everyone has a crush on, makes me a bit suspicious.

Otherwise it looks quite cool, but still very rough and unfinished, I would almost say too ambitious for the expectations. I don't see any really original ideas. Unfortunately, so far it seems a bit like a pawn catcher, but I'll be happy to be proven wrong when it comes out.

The studio's website is displayed incorrectly, but they describe themselves as follows:

We are AAA veterans and experienced game developers with infinite passion, excelling in narrative depth and gameplay innovation. Our goal is to continuously redefine entertainment with top-quality projects. Join us on this exciting journey.

I can't find anything about the history of the developers and what makes them "AAA veterans". The studio doesn't seem to have a Vita since it was founded in 2019, at least they don't advertise any of their other games.

Spoiler: And somehow the CEO of the studio, Ivan Mirkovikj, is giving off quite unpleasant vibes

source

But that's just a personal feeling and has little to do with the product.

I hope that there is more to it than just collecting funding.

 

[jonnyp]

Female protagonist be like:

Was about to write something similar. Can't we escape duck faces in videogames at least?

 

[JimboJones]

This looks terrible, like a fan made Deus ex.

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.

It's the "Nintendo, Hire this man" energy after people just dumping a hi poly Mario into unreal engine 5 in some realistic grassy field.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

This looks like it will run at 12 fps and with terrible controls.

 

[Luipadre]

Not impressed at all. Looks like an AI made game in UE5. Horrible even

 

[Fahdis]

Eh? Why are people so pessimistic here?

 

[Spukc]

Way to clean streets. That’s not Berlin. Where is the graffiti?

Turns out in the future heroin addicts make hyper intelligent offspring

 

[Braag]

The walking animation gives me serious "TeaserPlay" vibes lol

 

[SJRB]

Lmao...next gen? Looks generic af

The “gen” in “next-gen” stands for “generic”.

 

[Markio128]

Those characters left me cold (I thought the guy was going to shout Jason! In that first part and the girl has the warmth of a cyborg), but it looks like it could be a fun game nonetheless. Shooty shooty bang bang, and all that.

 

[Boss Mog]

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

yep, and the lip synching is pretty poor. It breaks the immersion. That being said it still looks better than Starfield.

 

[Ic3man]

Typical UE5 trash

 

[MHubert]

Eh? Why are people so pessimistic here?

Because being half way through a generation without games is starting to burn a hole and these UE5 'asset-pack' cashgrabs are getting tiresome.

 

[tommib]

Eh? Why are people so pessimistic here?

I think for once we can be legit negative here. It looks like an Uber generic U5 asset package orgy, full of blur, horrible image contrast and saturation, terrible animations through a potato salad of genres, deadpan dialogue deliveries with the most cliche premise possible through cutscenes that lack any kind of sense of art direction integrity. It looks terrible, tacky and like AI prompts.

 

[IAmRei]

it's too shiny i guess(?)
and the face is kinda weird

i think it's still fine

 

[Punished Miku]

SlimySnake the good news is that today we discovered that it is possible you can like AA games. There's hope for you yet, sir.

 

[sncvsrtoip]

Looks like nice tech demo but animations are joke ;d I will be surprised if game is not 5/10 or lower junk.

 

[StereoVsn]

Yeah, I agree the animations, environmental direction and the overall “feel” is very much AA so to speak, but now they got all the UE5 features turned on to the max.

So when still and focused on characters it looks pretty good, but the seams immediately show as soon as there is movement.

 

[genesisblock]

It looks like they used the stock UE5 pre-built animations

 

[Bartski]

animation lagging 10 years behind what looks like a bunch of UE5 presets

 

[SHA]

Sounds like this games complexity between watch dogs and cyberpunk 2077.