The short answer is "It depends!"

I know it's a crappy answer, but there are way too many parameters at play. There are many games today that have scripted scenes in them that are pretty cinematic. Think of GTA III, from 2001. The cut scenes in that game still outshine the actual gameplay of GTA V today.

If the scene is scripted, then all the animation, and camera movement can be fine tuned and all compute resources are pooled into the viewport of the camera. This allows the artists to focus all of the trickery on the shot itself, but not the rest of the world. From a PVS or scene-graph stand point, you have pretty much reduced the complexity to just what you are seeing.

I do not know how they made this demo and cannot comment on it with any authoritative capital. I've written 3D engines before (not for videogames though) and can comment on the technology I think I'm seeing here. My comments are just an opinion based on what I know. I do not have access to Unity and have never used it before. But here it goes:

For a scene like this, there should be reduced/canned computation in:

• Collision detection and response
  
• AI
  
• Animation / IK
  
• PVS
  
• Texture Atlasing
  

The shaders, unless they are geometry (the ripping of the skin/flesh in the Adam scene) could or could not be reduced in scope and complexity. I am not sure if they are scripted or dynamic. By scripted, I mean a geometry shader that reads vertex data from a VBO stream or some memory buffer instead of computing the vertices on the fly. It's still real-time, just not dynamic.

Most of the graphics you see here are standard applications of technology that's been around for a while:

• PBR shader
  
• Motion Blur Shader
  
• Depth of Field Shader
  
• Cascaded Shadow Maps Shader
  

The particle system seems pretty standard as well.

This is a great demo and I am extremely impressed with the art direction, but the engine itself is, after all, Unity with PBR for the characters, and maybe Global Illumation for the indoor scenes, which I believe they licensed from Geomerics.

I only go to beer bars that micro their own shittier PBR. They call it Crapst.

Guess hipsters grew up and became yuppies.
..traded in the PBR for the IPA.

Stack a few kids on top. Problem solved. There are also a few rather large people in the video. You could have tied the corners to few of them as they drink PBR and sunburn. Problem solved. Cut a big hole through the middle so the thing doesn't act like a sail. Problem solved. Fill it with sand instead of air. Problem solved. Tell onlookers it's a bouncy castle kite/ballon. Lemons into lemonade.

Do I have to think of everything?

>> ^MarineGunrock:

I think this particular "art" is terrible so I'm just a cretin? Pardon me while I go slam a 12 pack of PBR with Billy Bob at his trailer.


If you fail to see the plot/story, it's a pretty easy jump to assume you're a cretin.

Last I checked, PBR was a typical American Lager, not Belgian in any way.

And I'd rather drink a Stellas Artois or a Hoegaarden than a PBR, any day. But, I'll admit, if I want some cheap swill, PBR is bearable.

>> ^Morganth:

Only Belgian beer for this liver.

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I think this particular "art" is terrible so I'm just a cretin? Pardon me while I go slam a 12 pack of PBR with Billy Bob at his trailer.

per wikipedia:
"N.W.O." (New World Order) is a song by the Industrial metal band Ministry, released as the second single off the album Psalm 69. The single was Ministry's biggest hit, topping out on the Billboard Modern Rock chart at #11.

The song is a protest against then President George H. W. Bush. The song features audio samples of his voice, with him repeating "A new world order" over and over again at the end of the song. At this point of the song in the video, Bush is portrayed by an actor with an enormous papier-mâché head, grabbing his crotch and waving his arms. The majority of the video is a mix of police beatings, riots, and gunfights. It also includes a scene in which a woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty is beaten by police in a manner similar to the famous amateur video of Rodney King being beaten by police.

The music video was featured on Beavis and Butt-Head along with Just One Fix off the same album, although the credits for each song call the album "Psalms 69".

"N.W.O." was featured in the soundtrack of the film Cool World (Songs from the Cool World).

"It's alright! It's alright!" in the song is a clip of Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now when he first greets the PBR boat.

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pbr = hipster swill

>> ^blankfist:

Hey! Leave PBR alone! Seriously though, fuck you, hipsters.


I drink PBR cause its cheap, damn hipsters.

Hey! Leave PBR alone! Seriously though, fuck you, hipsters.

If you run out of PBR, then this may be the next best thing:

http://fletchowns.net/what.html

Don't knock the PBR, bro. If it was good enough for mom to drink during pregnancy, then by god, it's good enough for....um...what were you talking about?

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Whoa, are you back? Or did that crash noise in the kitchen and wafting Past Blue Ribbon stench come from someone else?