A Watery Rave: Dirt 2 DirectX 11 Demo

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Henry Winchester - 23 October 2009 - 2:40pm

Codemasters has released a video that shows off all the DirectX11 effects in its upcoming Dirt 2. There are some nice tessellation effects on the flags and crowds. But, honestly, who throws a shoe who cares about flags and crowds? They're just blurry background details anyway.

But Codies save the best bits until, well, 0:35. The water tessellation is pretty bloody cool, with the waves and ripples looking semi-realistic. Accurate water simulation is the holy grail of graphics engines; even Crysis' shores looked a bit pokey. We can only hope that 2K has taken note and included the effects in Bioshock 2. And hopefully we'll get a resurrection of the surfy bits in California Games.

We'll review Dirt 2 soon. We're wet with anticipation.

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Anonymous
27 October 2009 - 1:01am

Tesselated zombies?

Looks cool to me! But WTF happened to the crowd when they all turned into what looks like mud-spattered zombies?
-Prannock

Henry Winchester
27 October 2009 - 3:18pm

Haha, good point!

Maybe it's a Carmageddon-style mow-down-the-zombies mini-game.

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