4/7/2007 8:32AM PDT
FF13 to Exceed Hollywood Level Graphics?


Final Fantasy XIII’s visuals are set to redefine what we can expect in a game

Inarguably one of the best producers of computer generated graphics in the world, Square Enix has been flooring gamers with dazzling CG since FF7. The company eventually tried to expand into traditional film by releasing Final Fantasy Spirits Within in theaters. With a plot that was perhaps too cerebral for mass audience at the time, the movie actually made its mark in history with its visuals.




Like nothing before its time, the digital actors in the movie were leaps and bounds beyond anything anyone had ever seen. The main character, Dr. Aki Ross, was even featured in a bikini in 2001 issue of Maxim magazine. To produce the visuals at the time, hours upon hours were needed just to render one frame of animation featuring the doctor due to her tens of thousands of individuals hair strands – and this was using huge network of cutting edge computers all working in parallel, commonly referred to as a render farm.

Now just six years later, SE’s FF13 is well into development for PS3. Besides the inherent thrill of another game in the series being made, the graphical quality is simply stunning. In fact, we’d say its, at worst, on par with The Spirits Within. Think about that for a second. Sometimes in the next year or two, you’ll be playing a game on home console that’s, so far, visually superior to a Hollywood movie that required hundreds of computers to make. This fact alone validates the capabilities of both SE and PS3 as both being world class. Just think what another six years down the road could bring us. Crazy isn’t it?

-Kaiser Hwang of PSM April Issue.

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traduction rapide: ff13 dépassera visuellement tout ce qu'on a vu à présent dans un jeu(gear of war, crysis, killzone?,etc...) un jeu visuellement supérieur à tout ce qui se fait à holywood.
un jeu qui va faire mal et qui esperons le auras le succès mérité.