Treyarch: Battlefield 3 Engine is 'Visually Stunning'

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From computersandvideogames.com:

Treyarch community manager Josh Olin has said that the Frostbite 2 engine powering Battlefield 3 looks "really beautiful".

Speaking to HipHopGamerShow, the Call of Duty: Black Ops man said: "It was a visually stunning engine. I think it was the Fault Line trailer they released, it had some awesome Direct X11 effects going on. I know it was running on PC, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it on Xbox 360 and PS3."

Asked whether Activision's Call of Duty studio's need to up the ante visually, Olin said: "Irrespective of what anybody else does, we always need to be elevating that quality bar.

"The Call of Duty engine's very lightweight, versatile and... it's something that our team's just really experienced with, both teams are. The engine's really good, it's a very powerful engine, and we can layer in and update things if we want to, like in World at War when we really blew out the fire technology."

Infinity Ward, maker of the Call of Duty engine, told us earlier this month: "Speaking hypothetically and from a top-line philosophy... building a ground-up engine is counter productive... We never - for any game - build a 'brand new' engine, but iterate on a solid base... adding what's needed and innovates it."

Here is the interview:

A lot of mixed signals coming from Activision. It seems Call of Duty "could" do what Frostbite is doing in the industry, but perhaps its not worth the effort for the developers to try it out. That may be true when millions buy their game regardless of how it looks or plays as well as console being the focus for the title.

Do you think the engine could pull off what Frostbite is doing or could this be some quality control to downplay the competitor? What about the experience Treyarch and Infinity Ward have with the engine?

The IW Engine was first used in CoD2 in 2005 and was updated for CoD4. According to wikipedia, the engine was enhanced and used in W@W, MW2, and Black Ops as the IW 4.0 Engine

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[stilla-killa]

Re: Treyarch: Battlefield 3 Engine is 'Visually Stunning'

I think it's just like when business still use dos, why upgrade when it still does the job. From their prospective of course.

[Lordsethonan]

Re: Treyarch: Battlefield 3 Engine is 'Visually Stunning'

They are not going to come out and say "oh wow, they ripped us a new one".

Just PR; and specially on console, where the "gameplay" CoD offers has staled for years, DICE is offering not just prettier graphics, but gameplay that uses a new engine; I can tell you a lot of people I know that played BC2 and it was their first Battlefield were amazed at the ammount of stuff you can do, even if it's a "dumbed down" game respective of BF2.

Then their jaw drops when you tell them, "look in the previous game, you could drive jets and transport chopper, and buggies and APCs and you deploy from a carrier most of the time".

If DICE can bring the true battlefield experience to consoles, they might probably not dethrone CoD but they will eat a lot of the marketshare as the CoD kiddies experience something different and inmense for the first time.

either that, or if you thought there were obnoxious crybabys about jets; just you wait til the average console player gets bombed.