Kill Zone II Video
 

Having seen the video I was blown away by its awesomeness but recognized it to be CGI. IGN's editors all say that it is CGI but strangely over at gamespot they leave it open saying that it could be actually in game engine. Just wondering what you guys think about it...

I honestly think its a mix of both. I was just shown a preview of a xbox360 game where the player walks around a city, but occasionally for special events it seamlessly cuts to CGI and back again. the process is completely unnoticable and looks incredible. Thats what i think that video is.

Especially when you can see effects such as texture ripping and dissapearing vehicles that they wouldnt need to do in a pure CGI video.

But surely this has already been discussed

It's official: this movie is in-game footage, but it is ran on an "advanced superconsole." The creators of the Killzone 2 footage have confirmed this to be in-game footage, end of story. It is not CGI art. Most media enthusiasts expect the PS3 to play Killzone 2 at 50-75% of this performance. In other words, it will look just as good, but the framerate will probably be 30-45 FPS instead of the blazing 60 FPS in the movie. This isn't bullshit either -- the actual game developers explained this in an E3 interview.

Some predict that by the time the PS3 debuts the developers will be able to harness enough power out of the PS3 to make it look exactly like that video, but right now they're still working on it.

-Lasereth

Well... just found out that is true. Seems it was originally running at 5fps they just sped it up, and that was an alpha devkit. That is good news for the final version of the game and the graphics of games to come on ps3.

INSANE. Just imagine the next next generation if this one is already this realistic.

Las, I know you're a reliable source of information, but do you have a link to an article or anything like that?

As badass as those graphics looked, I won't be expecting that on launch day. Maybe 6 months to a year into the console's cycle, then we'll be seeing KillZone 2 graphics "standard" on games.

You can probably find it on google. I'm pretty sure IGN has the interview that Adam Sessler did with the creators of Killzone 2 about it being actual gameplay footage. I'd help, but I have marketing to read over in case we have another quiz today. :|

-Lasereth

well, they said in a story in PS Magazine here is a link:
http://www.jeux-france.com/images2_4_10872.html
sorry for the link, couldnt post the actual article cuz its a pic.

Thats really impressive then