Rendering capacities of a 2011 game !
 

Just totally impressive :

http://www.cowcotland.com/news/26578...lefield-3.html

Cinematics, textures, color palette, lighting, effects, everything is so amazing !
Just hoping an aviation sim will take this way one day !

Thats fantastic, if work had started on CLOD last year instead of in 2004 we may have been seeing something similar.

I would love a WWIII tank sim, with the same quality, just imagine Kursk battle or fighting in a B1 bis against many Pzkw II and III with the BF3 game engine.

Is the game moddable or built to be moddable in the future ?

I can honestly say there's nothing about that video that impressed me.

Ah, ah, I already hear the fanbois coming in hords, saying "if it doesn't look crap, it can't be a simulation"

If that video didn't impress you then you either are impossible to impress or have no real interest in current generation graphics, which is fair enough but battlefield 3 really is critically one of the best looking, if not the best looking game to date.
The lighting effects through the volumetric smoke alone is just astounding, i can't imagine how the engine is able to run that so well.

The frostbyte 2 engine is incredible as well, those shells from the enemy tanks crator the ground as they land..
The animation system is ripped from fifa 12 and takes kinetic energy and weight across each muscle into account as well to give the characters the realistic look when moving, you can't really see it in that tank video but other videos have shown it and its looking really nice on the AI at least, remains to be seen on a player.

easily the best game at e3 this year

give a combat flight sim developer team the budget of the BF3 team................

ArmAII 1.5 years ago was already much better according to my personal criteria.

Human animations are great though.

Well I hope not, although that looks great, the desert scenery isnt going to work for the Battle of Britain ;)

Really havn't these comparisons been done too death, anyone that has played any of these games must surely realise how small an area is being mapped and how although everything looks great there is no real bullet modelling etc, Id like to see one of these FPS teams try and make a flight sim, but I think they would throw in the towel when it all becomes to difficult.
You play a sim like Il2, CoD or ROF for years whereas these style games you are bored with in no time, even with the lovely graphics, great online play etc

Oh I will be getting it though, I love FPS games but as I say, this will be about the 4th I will have played in the last 2 years, no real depth to them and the devs aren't interested in releasing too much DLC as they usually have the next version ready to release.

It didn't impress me too. It looks like postprocessed movie and not like what human (or at least my) eye sees in reality. Simulator should not look like a movie. :)