Infamous: Second Son high-res screenshots officially released


Recommended Posts

Compared to PS3 they are.

Although it does appear that the screenshots in the OP are taken from FMV sequences, whereas the shot you provided was in-game. I hope to god the OP screenshots are the level of in-game quality that we can expect.

I couldn't pin point what makes those graphics more next gen than now. A different engine with more capabilities for THIS gen, then okay well done it looks great!.

The textures most likely, they're much better.

Yawn another "OMG PC graphics are way better than that" comment.

It is a bit hard to be impressed when most of us have seen better. Sure, they look a lot better than the last console generation, but they don't spark any wow factor when better stuff has been available for a while.

Call me when Playstation exclusives such as Uncharted, Last of Us, Infamous, Gran Turismo, Knack, Drive Club, Killzone etc.. come to PC, until then the rest of us will be excited at having a big bump in graphical fidelity for the games I don't get on my PC.

They aren't FMVs, the same clip was running realtime at Sonys Playstation Meeting as were all the other games they showed.....

Ah, I didn't know that. So this was in-game footage? That's pretty sweet then, I'm excited now.

And let's not derail this thread to a graphics comparison between different machines. We know there is a difference between console and PC capabilities, and we know that some people won't be impressed with the above. As usual, if you don't have something to say about the topic at hand (which is located in the Sony console section) then there is no need to make a post. (Y)

Just because it wasn't gameplay with a HUD doesn't mean it was pre-rendered FMV, most if not all of the games showed at Playstation Meeting were running in realtime.

Real time doesn't mean game graphics. real time cinematics always have significantly better graphics than the actual in game graphics.

what I'm more interested in though is the animations and soft body dynamics in this game, graphical fidelity is one thing, but it can only do so much if the animations and soft body dynamics aren't there to support it. for example when the liquid flame whip hits the guard how does he react, is there an actual impact or just a standard "I got hit by something" animation...

  • 3 weeks later...
This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • I used a Pixel 10 Pro XL when it first came out for about 8 months. When I first got it, it was using Google assistant and that was fast, when asking it to call somone etc. Then it automatically switched with some update to Gemini. Doing even the simplist of things like asking it to call someone in my contacts was soooooo slow compared to Google assistant. I guess it had to go out to the cloud to do that? Back on iPhone and while Siri is dumb right now, it does do those simple things, like call someone, set a timer, star the stop watch etc, really fast. That an while I like Google Material Design 3 over iOS 26, they Pixel 10 Pro XL was so slow in comparison to the iPhone 17 Pro I am using.
    • I use Gemini in my rotation of AI clients...that work pays for. It is good at most things, better than copilot for imgage searching and making images, worse at writing vs Claude and way worse at hadling technical issues when it comes to Azure stuff. I also use YT premium and maps. Anything else Google is a pass for me. I have now seen multiple people locked out of their Google accounts for reasons that are just very vauge.
    • Microsoft is building an AI datacenter that "uses less water than a fast food restaurant" by Ivan Jenic Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced plans to build a new datacenter campus in Pecos, Texas, as the company continues to invest billions in AI infrastructure. The new facility, called project Kilby, will reportedly have a capacity of 2 gigawatts and will be one of the largest single capacity additions in the company’s history. To power the campus, Microsoft signed a 20-year deal with Chevron to supply natural gas from the Permian Basin, America's largest oil field. This deal is set to become the largest collaboration to date between a U.S. oil and gas giant and Big Tech. It’s no secret that Big Tech has often been criticized for exploiting natural resources for its AI developments. Microsoft is trying to mitigate some of that negative consensus by promising to build its own power supply for the new datacenter, independent of the public grid. The Pecos datacenter will be powered by a power plant hub, built by Chevron, with up to 2.5 gigawatts of gas-fired capacity, with potential to scale to up to 5 gigawatts. The facility will include at least seven GE Vernova turbines, with first power potentially coming online as early as late 2027 or early 2028. The power plant hub is part of an approximately $7 billion investment by Chevron, making it one of the largest dedicated energy projects tied to a single datacenter campus in the U.S. Microsoft hasn’t publicly disclosed the amount it’s investing in the new datacenter. Microsoft has also committed to implementing a closed-loop cooling system that will only require an initial water charge to operate. The company said that “the total lifecycle water use of this datacenter is only a fraction of that consumed annually by a typical fast-food restaurant.” What the press release doesn’t mention, however, is how much water the natural gas plant itself will consume, or how a 20-year fossil fuel commitment squares with the company's pledge to be carbon negative by 2030. The construction of the new datacenter should provide over 6,000 construction jobs at peak build-out, and create hundreds of operational job roles once the facility is built. Via: Reuters
    • A lot of uncertainty in this story. Might. Could. Maybe. The truth is we don't know what will happen to the universe in the end, or if it will end. Our own Milky Way galaxy will merge with the Andromeda galaxy in about 2.5 billion years, with our solar system as part of a new, larger cluster. I guess we'll have to and see how it goes down.
  • Recent Achievements

    • Dedicated
      tuben earned a badge
      Dedicated
    • Week One Done
      mnsgroup earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Conversation Starter
      sumytbe earned a badge
      Conversation Starter
    • One Year In
      B4dM1k3 earned a badge
      One Year In
    • One Year In
      DarkWun earned a badge
      One Year In
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      523
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      195
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      94
    4. 4
      Michael Scrip
      82
    5. 5
      Steven P.
      67
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!