The new Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance screenshots from Comic-Con have to be an early April Fools joke from Konami.
Just look at those lovely square crates, textureless walls and jagged edges in the sixth screen shot, this is an unannounced PS2 version, right?
How about those cut ‘n’ paste trees in the first screen shot, a dead give away! Look at the mountains in the same picture, as flat as a pancake and the lighting looks all wrong.
Screenshot two is a jape, it has to be, the bad guy’s leg is clipping through the box, no one would release a screenshot like that on purpose.
Come on Konami these are taken from a jokey PS2 version of the game right?
No?
Oh.
Peter Chapman
oh, those are quite poor.
Did they announce a Vita version? These would be good for a Vita version but not great if those are PS3/360 shots…
aerobes
That was my first thought with the Vita. I’ve never decided my purchase or interest off graphical quality but those images are hardly salivating.
Alex C
I think it looks absolutely fine. Rather there be a few clipping issues and the game shifts along at a decent rate.
LTG Davey
Agreed. Sure the visuals aren’t great but, providing the gameplay is fun (which I’m sure it will be given how is handling it) and it all runs at a rock-solid frame rate I’m fine with that.
LTG Davey
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fs
It looked really good in some of the other screenshots and trailers i’ve seen. I think this is probably VITA versions or somebody has messed up somewhere. You don’t lose quality that quick.
Kris Lipscombe
Shots 3 and 6 are just terrible.
Tuffcub
Six is the worst. Raiden and the yellow crates at the fore have shadows, yet the tall orange crane thing does not.
Kris Lipscombe
I dunno, look at those bus textures in number 3.
Forrest_01
Yeah, but 3 is clearly in ‘blur-o-vision’ (registered trademark), which means he is probably focused on his target rather than the surroundings.
I can forgive the textures on the bus, that being the case. :)
Tuffcub
Im quite a fan of the floating car in 4
Forrest_01
To be fair, i have seen a lot worse!
Agreed that these really shouldn’t have been promo shots though. In a way, i respect the fact that they have put out something indicative of the product as it stands (one would assume), but at the same time, i do wonder why they didn’t apply some sheen before releasing them to the wild.
shields_t
These are supposed to be marketing their product, right?
BrendanCalls
Maybe they’re realistically managing the expectations. Possibly releasing below par screenshot’s so that when we do get to see the final product were all astounded, or , as Forrest has said above, these shots really are “indicative of the product” and they don’t want to release polished screenshot’s giving people a view that the graphics are higher quality than they will see in the game.
I personally hope’s its the former
fs
I was just about to say the same thing, if they release screenshots of a poorer quality to the actual game then they will surely recieve positive reactions ? Although it is risky because many would look at these screens and be ‘turned off’ immediately. I’m extremely dissapointed and i’m an MGS ‘veteran’ so to speak.
shields_t
I suspect the name Metal Gear Solid will already guarantee it sells a bucketload though.
double-o-dave
The only thing that looks half decent is the blood splat in the last picture so as long as your constantly chopping people up Kill Bill style the graphics should be fine.
hazelam
so bad the tsa picture viewer refuses to show them and they open up in a new page. ^_^
i wouldn’t say they ps2 quality, except for that one with the yellow container, that one looks awful.
believe me, i’ve seen worse this gen, vampire rain for example, that wasn’t me being lazy there, that game just doesn’t deserve to have its title capitalised. ^_^
The Lone Steven
For a Vita game, it looks excellent, graphics wise. Wait, it’s for PS3 and 360? :O I still won’t get it as every screenshot that is in this article is a middle finger to MGS fans who wanted a game about Raiden’s rise to the cyborg ninja. Why do i get the feeling it will be only 30FPS and have lag issues, therefore won’t offer a smooth hack and slash experience? Could be worse i suppose, they could have given Raiden a completely new look that makes him unrecongisable.