Digital Foundry dissects and examines The Last Guardian E3 footage

[CerebralTiger]

First off, our general impressions. The chances are they're probably the same as yours: there's no doubt whatsoever that this is a trailer is a wonderful piece of work, and it succeeds mostly because of an ethos that we've seen elsewhere in Sony first party projects, in particular Killzone 2. While the basic magnificence speaks for itself, all console hardware has inherent technical limitations (in short, something has to give) but the impact of those compromises in-game can be lessened through the expert handling of art and tech in concert. So with that in mind, here's the lowdown on what Sony revealed during E3.

The cinematic style of the whole trailer makes it difficult to pick up what might be gameplay and what might be cut-scenes, but what is curious is that some scenes appear to have anti-aliasing, while others have none at all. Some scenes are confirmed 720p, while others - due to the compression of the video asset - are much more difficult to discern. Adding further to the confusion is the emergence of screenshots on one of our favourite overseas sites, the Korean Ruliweb.

The ambiguity continues: elements of these scenes are replicated in the trailer at 720p, but here they're 1080p with 2xAA.

There is the strong possibility that what we have here doesn't actually feature any gameplay at all, and similar to the original God of War 3 reveal video, is a purpose-built trailer using actual assets from the development but with no in-game action. An alternative is that the trailer is cut together with video taken from the game at various stages of development, which has some plausibility to it bearing in mind the existence of the older video that was leaked pre-E3.

Video: http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.ph...=30959&size=hd

Source: Digital Foundry Blog @ Eurogamer

Fair enough....the footage may very well be comprised of certain assets that aren't in-game at this point, but I'm 100% sure that by the time we see some gameplay footage, it'll look just as beautiful (if not better)

[radd]

the real bird with the cell shaded boy was an awesome touch! kinda forgot everything before and after that.

[Rognarke]

This is going to be a very beautiful game, one for the keep especially for me. I was amazed at their showcase at E3

[SolitarySoldier]

The game is so beautiful and I'm sure it will release with more polished graphics. I guess there's still a lot of time left for this game to hit the shelves and by the time, we will have some gameplay footage and in-depth details about the game.