Polygon: EA's Ignite "Pre-rendered w/ in game assets"

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The footage of EA Sports' Ignite engine shown at today's Xbox One reveal event was pre-rendered using assets from Electronic Arts' next-gen FIFA, Madden, NBA Live and UFC games, says Andrew Wilson, executive vice president of EA Sports.

Asked whether snippets of real-time gameplay were featured in the teaser for FIFA 14, Madden NFL 25, NBA Live 14 and EA Sports UFC, Wilson said no and explained the reasoning behind its Xbox One showing.

"It was all pre-rendered," Wilson told Polygon. "Listen, we're not hiding behind that fact. This was an event that we've been planning for a number of months on a new platform. And what we wanted to do was use real game assets, so they're all real game assets, straight out of our game teams, but we had to get it into a format that would be usable in this style of event.

"What I'm really happy to say, though, is that our games right now are delivering on that, and in some cases more," Wilson said, "and we're going to show a lot more of that at E3 in a couple of weeks. And then by the time we get to launch, the sky's the limit of where we get to."

Wilson added that the pre-rendered footage of its four sports titles is "following where our games are going and certainly in line with what we're seeing in our games right now on console."

EA Sports Ignite will power the developer's future games, which EA says "will be alive with players who think, move and behave like real athletes and dynamic living worlds, transforming the way people play and experience games on next-gen consoles."

Good ole EA.... Any remember this bullcrap from this generations launch E3? A completely CG madden shown.

[djdanster]

Fair enough. When they needed the trailer complete, their games weren't quite up to scratch in the development cycle. Doesn't mean they wont be by the time release comes around.

[n_K]

So, the forza intro shown was pre-rendered as well, no game footage was shown and they said it won't be until E3.

Ironically the guy before the EA one was on was going on about realism and whatnot yet the EA clip still shows dodgy colours that look like a cartoon to me.

[OOOOOOOO]

So, the forza intro shown was pre-rendered as well, no game footage was shown and they said it won't be until E3.

Ironically the guy before the EA one was on was going on about realism and whatnot yet the EA clip still shows dodgy colours that look like a cartoon to me.

I'd love to see you try and do better :)

[n_K]

I'd love to see you try and do better :)

I work on hardware, not software.

[F_C]

Did anyone think otherwise when they saw it?

[threetonesun]

If two soccer players didn't run completely through each other, obviously it was pre-rendered.

[theyarecomingforyou]

I don't know about anyone else but I found the graphics in the trailer to be remarkably underwhelming. As for being pre-rendered, it seemed pretty obvious from the footage but at least EA is being open about it.

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I don't know about anyone else but I found the graphics in the trailer to be remarkably underwhelming. As for being pre-rendered, it seemed pretty obvious from the footage but at least EA is being open about it.

Yeah after the event when there's a chance a lot of the more casual audience simply watched the event and are now all wowed :p

[Bertch]

I'm not really sure what the big deal with pre-rendering is if they are using assets from the game and in some cases the game's engine to do the pre-rendering. I mean it's possible that the hardware they were running on is leaps and bounds more powerful than the Xbox One, but I think we can assume that it was done on a development box. It would have been cool if they could have used footage from "Magic Moments" to make the video.

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I'm not really sure what the big deal with pre-rendering is if they are using assets from the game and in some cases the game's engine to do the pre-rendering. I mean it's possible that the hardware they were running on is leaps and bounds more powerful than the Xbox One, but I think we can assume that it was done on a development box. It would have been cool if they could have used footage from "Magic Moments" to make the video.

Gamers just want transparency, and while it's good it's now came from EA, it really should be mentioned before/while the demo is being aired. We see plenty of "the footage that follows is all in realtime" don't we? ;) :rolleyes:

[.jCliff]

Same as seeing trailers on TV, there's always a message at the bottom "Not-ingame footage", it wouldn't hurt to include this.

[Motoko.]

I was a bit surprised when I saw the footage at the conference, it looked like the real deal, I guess I wanted to believe..