I don't browse the official website to often or even look at screen shots since i pretty much know what everything looks like. hah XD

But i came across this pic and i must say, it sat me back. Iv seen some fairly "dusty" looking pics and the graphics were literally last on my list of things i was looking forward to but now, I just can't wait to see what this game looks like on super high settings. Seriously looks better then Doom3, id even go as far to say it blows EQ2 out of the water, the characters look alive!

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We still have people saying that looks like WoW, lol. But, yeah, looks great.

I know its ridiculous people still compare the two :p

Check this new screen out, look at the face on that thing!! anybody remember the film, The Labyrinth?

And this one... this one has to be the best enviromental Pic, if you took this IRL, it would be a photo to be proud of indeed!!

Definitely some beautiful graphical work. I hope they don't neglect those of us without computers costing over five thousand dollars, you know what I mean.

well this should be clear now.. anybody saying WAR looks like WoW = LOL LOL LOL

so can't wait for this game to be released..

It is sad that people see cartoony orcs/goblins/dwarves and they compare anything to WoW.

As long as WAR doesn't have swords that are double the body length of the wielder, it can't be compared to WoW.

Very good graphics and I hope the gameplay is as good.

Well the general style of WAR does look like WoW, since Blizzard ripped off Games Workshop to start the Warcraft franchise.

WAR has a very Gothic visual feel, whereas WoW looks like the movie Shrek. I don't think the two look similar at all.

The environmental pic above is absolutely stunning! You can tell they put a lot of work into the details of the architecture. The only thing left for me is to actually go inside the structures and see if the insides are proportionate to the outsides. I love CoH/CoV but often laugh when the door of a mish is on a small building but yet the mish has a hug map. My money goes to the side that says this won't be the case with WAR, but I still want to see for myself.

I chuckle when I see the threads predicting that everybody will roll Destruction characters because ... well ... they are all evil and cool and stuff....

This guy is Order (Empire, Witch Hunter) and just oozes "badass!"

The WAR version of Hugh Jackman's, "Van Helsing."

This guy is cool from head to toe.

(Please note his "extra crispy" friend on the stake.)

Originally posted by Hrothmund

Well the general style of WAR does look like WoW, since Blizzard ripped off Games Workshop to start the Warcraft franchise.

Doesn't really remind me of WAR.

Woo Yeah! That Witch Hunter has the look of "don't !@#$ with me, I'm having a Good day!!! If I were having a Bad day, you'd be next to this guy on a steak already!"

Well if that is lowest settings i am happy with just that.  My computer isn't exactly top notch, i mean it's not bad, i got a gig of ram and my graphics card is 128 mbs radeon X300 so i think i could run on those settings right there with about the same lag i experience in WoW, which isn't that much.  I mean i run WoW on high everything and only lag on gryphon flights for the first few flaps of the wings.  Yes i know WoW's graphics are not great and at times not even good, but still i think i can run this don't you guys?

It looks like they've really stayed true to the artistic style of Warhammer. Anytime you're creating a fantasy world you're going to end up with similarities to other brands but look at the orcs, they look like they could steal a WoW orcs wife then kick his butt back to Ogrimmar for trying to do something about it. The enviroment and models just from these shots look miles beyong WoW's cartoony feel.

I have been following WAR for sometime now and will play it when it comes out.  The game play sounds great and I love RvR/PvP but the graphics atm look like WoW.  Im not a fan of the graphics at all but as they say its pre-alpha so I really hope they go away from the WoW look because it really is bad.

Not sure why the awe... you can play these very graphics right now by making a DAOC char.

That being said my hat's off to Mythic

Texture and ground detail is beyond horrible for this day and age. Blurry ftl.

And i don't even say they're ripping off WoW (they aren't).

Originally posted by Gurkz

... but the graphics atm look like WoW. 

If you look at Orcs and Goblins and those big siege cannons, sure, I am reminded of WoW.  However, the landscape and architecture does not remind me very much of WoW since that game tends to use a very bright "fantasy" color palette and very few 90-degree angles or straight lines in its design.

Nevertheless, people will still see some artistic parallels between the two games.  This is probably inevitable since most people agree that WoW borrowed heavily from the Warhammer style.

Originally posted by DefiledF

Texture and ground detail is beyond horrible for this day and age. Blurry ftl.

 

And i don't even say they're ripping off WoW (they aren't).

Everything must be blurry to you.

The graphics you are seeing now are no where near what you will see at launch. To draw the closest comparison, these are what you will see at the lower settings. The higher end machines will "see" much better graphics in every respect. That work is going on in parallel. I have a friend that works as a modeller on this project and have seen some of the "final" graphics (often sent to me as teasers and "nah nah na-nah nahhh nahhh"s ). You will be blown away !!! At top end, the graphics will be very comparative to what you have seen in the cinematic trailors.

Of course it looks 'somewhat' like WoW. It HAS to look like something. How many graphics engines or methods of rendering fantasy characters do you think there possibly are?

Anyways.

My big concern is not the it is ripped off of something else (it isn't) or it looks like something else (it doesn't) or for me personally that it would take a powerful PC to render it at full tilt, but rather in heavy PvP action that it will overload the computer unless there is a quick and dirty level of detail that you can switch to for hefty 30v30 battles, etc. I hate lagkill.