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Available on PC and Xbox Series consoles.

Hellblade 2 is an incredible looking game using Unreal Engine 5 technology
here you can share your favorite and best screenshots of the game.

Let the fun begin!

• Imgur: almost no loss during the upload, simple to use.
• Flickr: Two terabytes of storage and great for screenshot library management.
• Lensdump: Free unlimited permanent image storage with almost no loss in quality.
• Limits: 4 screenshots per post.

DF:
Hellblade 2 is a defining moment in the evolution of real-time graphics".
(The Next Level in Real-Time Visuals)
Game
Takes advantage of everything UE5 offers
- Final game 'lives up to the lofty expectations' of the 2019 reveal
- Character rendering sets new standards and nearly resembles movie sequences with actual actors
- Leverages Unreal's Meta Human 5 to bypass the uncanny valley feel
- DF were left guessing whether some cut-scenes were in-game or real life footage (photo mode shows they're all real time)

 

[keraj37]

I was thinking about creating same thread.
I hope people will post here, I am not buying that game myself, but am very interested how it really looks.

 

[TxKnight7]

I liked these shots!
first pic remind me of the first appearance of The Balrog from LOTR movie

 

[PlayofSparta]

 

[Darsxx82]

Many reviews are naming it as the game with the best graphics and graphics today..... For that alone, it deserves to be played. It means that together with the phenomenal photo mode, this thread has a promising future...

 

[Gaiff]

It was always going to take the title. AAA budget but 6 hours of game time, meaning the majority of the money went into the presentation, graphics, and art. Other games with similar or higher budgets are much longer and more varied.

The scale and scope are extremely restrictive, however.

 

[Zathalus]

Saw some benchmarks, 4k, maximum settings, DLSS quality needs a 4090 to clear 60fps in the 1%. A 4080 does 60fps average at those settings.

 

[FireFly]

It was always going to take the title. AAA budget but 6 hours of game time, meaning the majority of the money went into the presentation, graphics, and art. Other games with similar or higher budgets are much longer and more varied.

The scale and scope are extremely restrictive, however.

I am curious what the budget actually was though as they only had an 80 man team and only started full production after mid 2021.

 

[Darsxx82]

 

[TxKnight7]

wow looks like cgi !

 

[Self_Destructive]

 

[Roman Empire]

Bring me that eye candy!

 

[winjer]

Graphics are nice, but all that chromatic aberration, film grain and motion blur, makes it look terrible.
Absolutely disgusting image quality.

 

[Little Chicken]

 

[DenchDeckard]

Always worth one graphics porn game a generation. Looks like this is the perfect one and won't outstay its welcome.

 

[Aion002]

Best looking game on the Series S for sure:

 

[Cherrypepsi]

Graphics are nice, but all that chromatic aberration, film grain and motion blur, makes it look terrible.
Absolutely disgusting image quality.

 

[GymWolf]

Graphics are nice, but all that chromatic aberration, film grain and motion blur, makes it look terrible.
Absolutely disgusting image quality.

This is really xbox's the order, great graphic but with dogshit image quality at least in pics and yt videos.

That one was more low res, this one has more CA, chose your venom.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Graphically its in a league of it's own.

 

[M1987]

Graphics are nice, but all that chromatic aberration, film grain and motion blur, makes it look terrible.
Absolutely disgusting image quality.

I agree,it completely destroys the image quality although it still looks good

 

[winjer]

I agree,it completely destroys the image quality although it still looks good

Yeah, the game has nice graphics. But it's like looking trough very dirty lenses.

 

[Schmendrick]

Graphics are nice, but all that chromatic aberration, film grain and motion blur, makes it look terrible.
Absolutely disgusting image quality.

"This picture looks amazing, let`s smear vaseline all over it"
- Hellblade Devs

 

[saintjules]

It was always going to take the title. AAA budget but 6 hours of game time, meaning the majority of the money went into the presentation, graphics, and art. Other games with similar or higher budgets are much longer and more varied.

The scale and scope are extremely restrictive, however.

Whats 6-8 hours for the person making that statement may not be the same for you and me.

Someone will find a way to blast through the game in 3 or 4 hours and others might take 8 or 10 hours. Always varies.

 

[Little Chicken]

People complaining about the visual presentation are likely those who add reshade to everything in order to obliterate any artistic intention.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Will be interesting to hear DF breakdown.

 

[acm2000]

It was always going to take the title. AAA budget but 6 hours of game time, meaning the majority of the money went into the presentation, graphics, and art. Other games with similar or higher budgets are much longer and more varied.

The scale and scope are extremely restrictive, however.

AAA budget? 80 people over 4 years is not a triple AAA budget

 

[Mr Moose]

Nice DoF, the damn CA is disgusting.

 

[mansoor1980]

based on Aldís Amah Hamilton

 

[skyfinch]

Is there a slider that reduces how much of her gums are exposed whenever she talks, or yells, or whispers, or does anything? I get it, you're mad, but holy crap does this game over exaggerate her facial expressions.

 

[darrylgorn]

Needs more stubble.

 

[Aion002]

More Series S:

 

[drotahorror]

People complaining about the visual presentation are likely those who add reshade to everything in order to obliterate any artistic intention.

Naw, CA is aids. Reshade sucks for the most part too.

 

[M1chl]

I think that graphics is too unclean for it to be "best looking game", however models and animations are incredible

 

[Darsxx82]

Photorrealism.

 

[PendekarRajawali]

AAA budget? 80 people over 4 years is not a triple AAA budget

So it’s not an AAAAAAAAA budget?

 

[Hudo]

Looks like a PS2 game.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I better be able to turn CA off on pc. Fuxk that noise

 

[Traxtech]

Given how good the order looked with the borders since they can push more fidelity, it makes sense.

Looks fantastic

 

[ZehDon]

It's gone for the same poorly-processed-chemically-treated-film look that TLOU2's egregious post-processing went all in on, albeit with much improved quality of the underlying rendering. I thought that look was pretty unappealing then, and I still find it pretty unappealing here. Trying to look like bad film stock doesn't win me over, frankly, and just highlights how much the developer really really wants to make movies.

 

[Darsxx82]

I have finished the initial chapter and it is simply the most visually impressive thing of this gen and it has awakened in me a very high hope in me about what we will see from UE5 in the future.

Nanite, Lumen, atmospheric effects, animations and character detail is incredible.

 

[rodrigolfp]

No black bars!!! \o/

No option in game to turn off graphical (d)effects!!! -_-'

More Series S:

But wasn't the S holding back the PS5 graphics?

 

[adamsapple]

(not my picture)

Goddamn the level of detail is incredible.

 

[rodrigolfp]

I better be able to turn CA off on pc. Fuxk that noise

Not yet, afaik.

• Minimized Chromatic Aberration & Film Grain with adding this text into: %localappdata%\Hellblade2\Saved\Config\WinGDK\Engine.ini
  
  Code:
  [SystemSettings]
  r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
  r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0

 

[mortal]

(not my picture)

Goddamn the level of detail is incredible.

The attention to detail on these character models is impressive.

 

[adamsapple]

Mr. Frodo, share the load!

 

[rodrigolfp]

The attention to detail on these character models is impressive.

But I don't think game play models are the same.

 

[mortal]

But I don't think game play models are the same.

Even so, at the very least it's all in-engine and manages to look just as good as some offline pre-rendered CGI.
Even the gameplay models are dense with detail. It's honestly impressive work from a relatively small dev team.

 

[Negotiator101]

It was always going to take the title. AAA budget but 6 hours of game time, meaning the majority of the money went into the presentation, graphics, and art. Other games with similar or higher budgets are much longer and more varied.

The scale and scope are extremely restrictive, however.

This hasn't got a AAA budget, only 80 people worked on this for 4yrs not 7yrs as some would have you believe.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Even the gameplay models are dense with detail

I could not really see yet with so much CA/blur, but I don't doubt.

 

[adamsapple]

I'm kinda surprised Digital Foundry don't have a video on this up already. They're usually putting out stuff in-time with review embargos.