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New Final Fantasy XIII/Versus XIII footage on Dec. 13th
Rumor: Splinter Cell: Conviction coming to PS3? While Sony remained pretty quiet this year at the Game Developer’s Conference, one of the exclusive titles for its PlayStation 3 platform made a substantial appearance at the show.
At the “Technology of Final Fantasy” presentation today at GDC, the GM of Square-Enix’s Research and Development Division, Taku Murata, revealed the new name for the next generation game engine, Crystal Tools which is formerly known as the White Engine.
Crystal Tools:
- The first companywide technology platform
- Authoring tools and runtime libraries
- Allows photorealistic CGI to be rendered in real-time.
- Has advanced audio processing, cinematic cut scene transition, physics effects and other effects rendering.
Crystal Tools serves as the engine which will power up Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and Square’s upcoming MMORPG which few details are known about.
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cant wait to see this game...
GDC is turning out better than I thought
Link64 the part where it shows the battle menu, is, in-game. And I dont think you should put the title as GDC: Square-Enix announces Crystal Tools. They didn't really announce it they just renamed the White Engine.
lol i just got banded from the fourms cuz i said "the only good game in my opinuin on xbox 360 will be fable 2"
is that a form of flaming? i know its off topic i was just wondering lol
this will be great!!!!!!!!
Did ps3forums just get hacked?..
what the heck is this vbullutin about f*ing n*gger's moms?
Looks like Unreal has a very real competitor now.
No..I think the ps3forums just got hacked or something..whats up..
dwelden maybeys yuo gots banded caus u cants spellz....
wow dragon969atpsu, you really have no clue, the game engine has nothing to do with the battle system... the battle system is gameplay.. the game engine is just something that runs everything and sends messages to charaters for their animations, or the environments physics.... nothing to do with battle
lmao, wow Gameware336, it's funny how you said:" ... plus no need to down the poster..." when you blatantly put another poster(duomtl) because of his/her opinion. I agree with the opinions of duomtl; why would they have a classification for game engine and a classification for gameplay... i don't know maybe because they're different. oh, oh here is another funny one you said: "without the engine the game would be lifeless." WHAT!!! are you serious(sarcasm). lol. no excrement Sherlock. in essence what you're saying is, anytime someone use this engine the gameplay is going to be the same.