NEWS
by Mark Barley
BioWare dev: 'Dragon Age 3' is "beautiful"
According to BioWare developer Neil Thompson, Dragon Age 3: Inquisition is "stunningly beautiful".
In a recent interview with OXM, Thompson states that the game's magnificence comes from the Frostbite 2 engine.
“Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 were both done using BioWare’s own Eclipse engine, and it was starting to creak a little bit when Dragon Age 2 came out. Inquisition is being done on the Frostbite 2 engine and it is an astonishingly powerful engine.
“The Dragon Age artists were always slightly disappointed at how their work was visualised in the final product with Eclipse, but with Frostbite, they’ve just done some amazing stuff. There was a pre-production period where almost on a weekly basis I’d be sitting in the environment reviews and being blown away by what was coming out – it looks stunningly beautiful. So I think when we do start releasing screenshots, people won’t be disappointed.”
Thompson then added; “The Dragon Age artists were always slightly disappointed at how their work was visualised in the final product with Eclipse, but with Frostbite, they’ve just done some amazing stuff. There was a pre-production period where almost on a weekly basis I’d be sitting in the environment reviews and being blown away by what was coming out – it looks stunningly beautiful. So I think when we do start releasing screenshots, people won’t be disappointed.”
“Can you make fantasy beautiful in a different way? We think we have something special for Dragon Age 3: Inquisition.”
BioWare can harp on Inquisition's graphics and textures and layers all they want, but if it's not vastly different than Dragon Age 2, gamers are going to be sorely disappointed. Via VG247