Originally Posted by headcrab13
If you want to get technical about it, no games (including PS2) have achieved true global illumination 
I was referring to the actual metal surfaces (both the Vanu armor and Galaxy hull) probably averaging multiple vectors to grab large nearby surfaces and reflect their light intensity and color, which isn't technically GI but is close enough for gaming, and a hell of a lot less taxing to the processor.
Frostbite 2 and CryEngine 3 (or at least early tech demos) have demonstrated some crude radiosity effects, but again this is only for certain objects and only under certain circumstances.
That being said, even the fact that they're attempting effects like this on an MMO scale is incredible. I'm definitely building a machine dedicated to PS2 and taking max-quality HD video. |
Indeed its incridible to see this graphical fidelity in an MMO but again, two words: PC EXKLUSIVE. last true pc game was Crysis 1, that was 5 years ago. Since then all the games we had were console ports. Its about time we have a new milestone. Also in forgelight the hdr is not baked, lightning is fully dynamic it looks to me the Radiosity affects on all objects. Finally we have a game again that willl fully utilize the new graphic cards. Probably my 295 gtx will die under ps2.