Found new screens, the best so far!

[achillies_ny]

Awesome Thanks! Looks amazing

[Raw Kryptonite]

Are these in-game, or "game engine" shots? I see a couple have the flight info in the upper left, but most don't. The ones that do seem like in-game really look nice.

[xNikex]

Good Find!

The planes are beautiful. Pilots remind me of the original.

I also like the burns by the machine guns.

[trk29]

Originally Posted by xNikex

Good Find!

The planes are beautiful. Pilots remind me of the original.

I also like the burns by the machine guns.

Holy Sh*t!! The only word that can describe that is AWESOME.

That P-51 is stellar.

[Kartman013]

Dear-god, those screen shots are drop dead gorgeous.... how can this be an Xbox 360 game?

Edit: Looking at them again I am drooling over each one of them.

[Tomo]

Stunning images for sure.

If i'm not mistaken these are the first images listed as coming from the PS3? Most screens have been 360 so far yes?

There's no way though that they are ingame un-doctored images. If they were it would represent a generational change which the 360 and PS3 are just not capable of.

[TofuStoreDrift]

Great find, but these sceen shots just make me more anxious.

[Marchochias]

Originally Posted by Tomo

Stunning images for sure.

If i'm not mistaken these are the first images listed as coming from the PS3? Most screens have been 360 so far yes?

There's no way though that they are ingame un-doctored images. If they were it would represent a generational change which the 360 and PS3 are just not capable of.

Never undersestimate what skilled developers can do with optimization once they learn how to really use a console later in its lifetime.

Remember, Microsoft just said the 360 isn't getting replaced until 2015. By 2015, imagine how good the games on it will look. The first generation 360 games like Perfect Dark Zero and Call of Duty 2 don't even look like they are on the same console as newer games like Far Cry 2, Modern Warfare 2, etc.

[Mr_V]

Originally Posted by Tomo

There's no way though that they are ingame un-doctored images. If they were it would represent a generational change which the 360 and PS3 are just not capable of.

(Sorry to reply to an old post in a bumped thread.)

This was my initial reaction as well. In fact, I was pretty certain the screens were from PC-based development kit (which they still may be, given that the native resolution is a fair bit higher than the rendering buffer on either Xbox 360 or PS3 is likely to be).

But then I sat down with a friend who is the CGI VFX guy for a TV ad production company, and he talked me through what a modern FPS has to do in order to look as good as it does (using Killzone 2 as an example), and how relatively little work a flight sim 3D engine has to do by comparison.

In fact, in his opinion as something of a 3D programming guru, a flight sim developed to utilise modern console hardware properly should look at least as good as the released BoP screenshots. Sure, it's a "generational leap" over anything we've flown before, but ask yourself this: When last has a sim been developed (on any platform) to push modern graphics hardware to the limit? It's been… quite a while, eh?

Go and play a bout of Killzone 2 or Gears of War 2 (depending on your console of choice), looking carefully at what goes on on-screen. And then look at the IL-2 screens again. You should see what my friend meant: Yep, it should indeed look as good as all that.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by trk29

Holy Sh*t!! The only word that can describe that is AWESOME.

That P-51 is stellar.

LOL-that P-51 caught my attention aswell.

The only quandry I have so far with what I've seen with the game is that they seem to be using the hurricane mark 2B model for the battle of britain, but surely they should have used a mark 1? I'd like to see more pictures of the RAF BoB planes in game hint...hint