Far Cry 2 Devs drool over PS3's power

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After all these months of whining about the PS3's complexity, it looks like some developers are finally manning up and realizing the PS3's raw technical prowess. Take that Gabe Newell! Upon hearing things like this, I'm real excited to see what's going to be cranked out in the next 2-3 years.

"We were positively surprised by how efficient the SPUs (the Cell processing units) were to do such things as run our vegetation simulation, our animations or our physics systems. So while it did require quite a bit of R&D to understand how to use the system correctly, once we started having results we saw that it was a very capable console and that FC2 could run on it."

Elsewhere, Guay also touched on how the PS3’s Blu-ray drive and hard drive have facilitated the company’s efforts in terms of its ability to stream games in real-time, adding, “The hard drive and Blu-ray are making our life easy considering FC2 is an open world continuously streamed around the player.”

“That streaming bandwidth and disk space is very appreciated. So, in terms of AI, game structure, physics, dynamic time of day, open world gameplay, dynamic weather system, destructible vegetation, all of those things where we had really pushed the envelope technically, they run well on PS3.

http://www.psu.com/Far-Cry-2-dev-imp...0002699-p0.php