MTW2 E3 Trailer in HD quality

[screwtype]

97 megabytes? Not sure I can be bothered with the dl...

Can someone confirm whether or not it's just a high res version of the ones we've already seen?

[Zenicetus]

We saw part of this in the earlier videos, but there is much more in this high-res clip. There is a nice camera pan into the castle (which looks great!), with a shot of the portcullis being raised. It shows the attacking army approaching through a narrow gorge (Man, I hope that terrain is in the randomly generated battles!!!), and some kind of multi-barrel rocket artillery being fired.

It took about 4 minutes to download on broadband. It sure is impressive looking, but I don't know how much CA has fudged this with video editing or "illegal" camera angles. There is no way that you'd get these ground-level shots in the RTW camera engine.

Stuff is happening awfully fast. It looks great if this was a trailer for a CGI theatrical movie, very "Braveheart"-ish..... but I'm wondering how you'd give any tactical commands in realtime, to what I'm seeing here.

<edit> After watching it a few more times, I think it might just be the fast-paced editing they're using, and maybe not a problem with the game engine running too fast. I could cut together a clip from RTW that looked like this, and it wouldn't represent the actual pacing of the battles.

[Peasant Phill]

It's very bad quality when I watch it. The screen blurs every time the camera moves fast.
But I still got a glimpse of the movie and it has been released already but it was replaced with the shorter version that you all saw.

[ShadesWolf]

WOW

That was amazing, I think I will need a new graphics card for this game to give it justice.
The video is one minutes 28 seconds.
And shows a turkish (Ottomans I guess) attack on a castle and the battle that took place. Very very very nice graphics. And in HD full screen - awesome.

[Ibn Munqidh]

AWSOME!!! Really good video, showing a full seige batte. Remember that 7-second video? That was only a small part of this 1min 27second video.

Really, you should download it, its worth it.

[econ21]

AWSOME!!! Really good video, showing a full seige batte. Remember that 7-second video? That was only a small part of this 1min 27second video.

Yes, this one was prematurely released on the side of a gaming website and so some of us saw it earlier in low quality. Then it was pulled so others never got to see it. Now we can all view it in its full glory.

[doc_bean]

Pretty ! Me want !!!

[screwtype]

It took about 4 minutes to download on broadband. It sure is impressive looking, but I don't know how much CA has fudged this with video editing or "illegal" camera angles. There is no way that you'd get these ground-level shots in the RTW camera engine.

You can download 97 megabytes in 4 minutes??? Wow, that's some broadband you've got there!

I have broadband, but a 97 meg dl will probably take me 20-30 minutes I would guess. Obviously all broadbands weren't created equal

Edit: Make that 30 minutes. Oh well, it's still beats dial-up by a country mile

[Ludens]

Is it just me or is this video really choppy?

Edit: task manager says that WMP suddenly uses all available system resources when playing this video. What is going on?

[Mount Suribachi]

I think I need to change my underwear.......

Of course, it doesn't tell us how the AI is, and it doesn't show us the strategy map But kudos to CA for releasing such a hi-res video, it looks amazing

[Ibn Munqidh]

Is it just me or is this video really choppy?

Edit: task manager says that WMP suddenly uses all available system resources when playing this video. What is going on?

Something is messed up with your computer. Its exerting all processor power to play the video. Likely causes: a virus.

[Zatoichi]

I've watched this a few times now - very nice too.

However having been a bit sad and watched it at a slower speed so as to savour it that bit more, I have to say the Timurids are very ugly people! Or are they wearing masks? They look more like Orcs than Eastern steppe Mongol types to me (no offence intended to any Orcs, Timurids or Mongols reading this post).

[Duke John]

Yes, I noticed that too. They indeed look like mutated humans.

[Ludens]

Something is messed up with your computer. Its exerting all processor power to play the video. Likely causes: a virus.

The virus scan and anti-spyware software turned up blank, but I am going to be extra careful these days. Thanks for the warning.

[screwtype]

Okay I watched it, it looks great! (although the movement of some soldiers looks a bit stiff at times - and those buildings are still crumbling much too easily).

But then, I remember how good the vids for RTW looked, and the game wasn't nearly as impressive. So we'll just have to wait and see I guess.