Now that GDC is just over and I must say it bought up really good news for 360 and PC gamers not to mention PS also had great things to show. I was surfing the net and downloading videos to get information abt whats going on here are news I picked up in brief:

1. UE3 powered with Mova animation engine was shown by microsoft spokeperson. I saw the video it was stunning, facial animation video is available in net. They animation were as better than even good CGI's have hope they put this thing into Gears2.

2. Too Humans was displayed and this time it successfuly came over the previous criticism. Not only the graphics were very sharp but another factor was known that the world in Too Human would be seamless like GTA 4, you can jump to environment to environment and no loading is there. Also the framerate was solid even though 60-70 NPC's were onscreen and a lot of action was going on screen running at 720p with 4X AA. Also the artistic beauty of the game really shows off with well designed character, environment and accessories and weapons. Sound track was also 1st grade.

Verdict: Too Human is solid technically and artistically.

3. Fable 2 demo was really exciting, The game is seamless just like Too Humans with fantasy settings. Not to mention the graphics looked really good and more than sound technology was the sheer artistic beauty in character design, clothing and environment and out of this environment was really extraordinary. Graphics were not like Mass Effect or Too Human which are based or realistic and mature setting they were more comical and stylish.

But the graphics were the secondary attraction to Fable 2 main attraction was that you can take a job you want adventurer, buy anything in the world like house small stores to big castles or even a whole city if your wallet allows you too. Also Peter Moluynex demostrated another striking feature that was relationships he showed that his player who was a female had a family which she raised on her money and when she returned from abt 6 months of adventure with a henchman who is the 2P in coop her son rushed to her and welcomed her and near the house her husband was in a bad mood, as anyone would be if ones wife comes after 6months with a hechman and then the 2p shooted Moluynex husband which he is free to do.

Now devs also mentioned that the child will now be no more carefree and if the player doesnt gives more attention he could end up in a orphange. But if the player wants she could retrive him from orphanage later. Mr. Moluynex confirmed that the things shown are simulation and not scripted. So it is on your own to make relation and maintain them in Fable 2. He also mentioned abt the freedom in moving people have in Fable they can climb walls or take window instead of door. They are free to do whatever they want.

4. Gears of War 2: A trailer was shown in which Marcus and locust fight with chainsaws in their hands using it like sword, it was really impressive but the trailer was in total red color. So no graphics forecast could be done. Also along with that they showed UE3 enhancement. Water effects, ligitining, Draw distance were increased also Post processing, high denstiy crowd, Soft body physics features are now added and also it was shown that environments can now be fully destructible.

Release Date of GEars 2 was confirmed to be November.

5. Star wars force unleased trailer was shown the game is comin in May on near abt all the consoles including PS2. But the trailer shown was for it PC, 360 and PS3 version. The graphics in the trailer were highly detailed and characters were also peculiarly what we see in starwars. The physics simulation also was also excellent in the trailer.

Also Lucas arts confirmed that from now on their lead console will be PS3, i.e all the games from now on will be developed in PS3 first this according to them would make the game be on time on PS3 with less hardwork and also the 360 version development could be handled easily then.

6. Ninja Gaiden 2 was shown the stag showed a really huge underworld type areas filled with monster and it was a valley like area were huge waterfalls of blood were flowing from here and there and a lot of dragon like monsters were shown flying. Still the visuals were highly detailed and the fighting seemed to have been improved from earlier especially the camera which was handled properly. Another thing noticable was the soundtrack was much better than any of the previous Ninja Gaiden games. At the end of the demo a demon talks to Ryu and tells him Something abt how Human spices are gonna be destroyed by demons and gives him an alternative : 'Submit or Die'. From the demo it was very clear that the cinematics in NG2 have been heavily improved from its predecessors. Also a feature of saving gameplay videos like Halo 3 was announced.

The only pedigree was that for unknown reason Itagaki's wireless controller failed two times although for 1 or 2 seconds. But still NG2 demo was the star of the show in GDC after competion and in betwen demo there was a lot of clapping whistling going on showing the positive response. I must comment that do watch the NG2 demo if you are waiting for the game.

7. APB : APB demo was also shown in the public its an MMo made by the person who build the concept for GTA3 and Crackdown. It is also has a seamless world. The graphics of APB looked really good, especially the characters were crafted brilliantly. Also it was shown that APB would unlike it predecessors also have style and personal touch to it. Also it was mentioned they have are putting some Final Fantasy Advent children movie kind of style in the games fight sequnces. The game would be releasing by this years end or early next year on PC and xbox 360.

8. Age of Conan: Hybrodonian ages: Funcom gives the demonstration and techdemo of their highly anticipated MMORPG, Tech demo showed realife day and night life cycle, Lush and living environment and the biggest of all this was the scale at which the game runs, Devs also mentioned that on account of the scale the game has Age of Conan really is what you call an MMO.

The control schemes for the game where shown it is a little complicated but fits superbly on PC. Also it was shown how rides work in the game the player were riding huge animal which are of fantasy world of conan like 35 feet huge Mamooth or Rhino thrice the size of todays or even simple horse if you want also it was shown that each rideable character had differnt walking and attacing style than other, spell use was also shown one of the rider sitting on maooth cast some spell of curing probably and a light blue coored illumunated beam falled on his body from sky and it extende to the distance as far as one can see. The spell casting was really impressive to look at.

One thing has to be mentioned that Conan videos look way too better in HD than on SD. If you will view an HD video of conan you would really appreciate its graphics even with epic size draw distance it looks striking epecially the lightining, terrain, Grass, Rocks, mountains and tress are done in very nice manner. Especailly the ligthining and water effects were really striking.

But the same video will look pale, like a PS2 game in quality on SD.

Also Funcom devs mentioned that even thought the control scheme is complicated and designed for PC, but 360 is perfect for Age of Conna and they are very excited to get the game on 360. Lets see if they can dethrone WOW from its position but anyways from GDC its clear that they are on right track.

9. Factor 5 are patching up Lairs control they showed it on GDC it will be launched in march.

10. Secret agent clank a Psp game was shown in which Ratchet has been imprisoned and Clank is upto resue him.

11. PC gaming alliance was formed by Microsoft, Dell, Activision, Intel, AMD

Titles which missed GDC: Alan Wake and Splinter cell: convection were not shown at GDC.

There might be a lot of things I misssed out but this was just a briefing based on what I had go through surfing in last 3 days so hope you like it.

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