Quote Originally Posted by Monk View Post
Remember that Shogun 2 had some pretty cool mo-cap itself. If you zoomed in at the right time you could watch some really fun duels between characters when everything fell together just right. It's no doubt that CA has pulled some movie magic with this trailer, however, there's some really fancy stuff in there as well that I wouldn't be surprised if it was apart of the game's battle system.

I do shudder at the thought of how powerful a PC would need to be to play it on high, however.
Yep. I had a dual core laptop with ati 4000 series graphics, 3 mb ram and i had real troble on running shogun 2 on medium settings. Than i managed to save enough to buy a desktop (amd bulldozer 8 core, 16mb ram, ati 7500 series) and it runs like a charm on the highest settings. It became a real pleaseure to play that game its like a cinematic experience rather than a strategy game. However, this looks much more realistic than anything i have seen in a strategy game. Those facial expressions are amazing. It actually reminds me of LA Noir if you guy know it, they used motin capturing technology for facial animations and it looks amazing, almost real. Rome 2 can be the closest thing to that albeit on a grand setting so it makes me wonder as you said, what kind of system would satisfy the requirements of this baby...