After watching over an hour of it, I don't see it, just looks like another gears game
Character models look like wrestling figures, facial animations looks dated
Character animation looks average
What am I missing here, nothing screamed "best" of anything, not ugly, but certainly not amazing
Always found gears to look ok, think it's more the actual art style i dislike overall as well. Always hated the steroid looking beefcake look, just looks dumb
And the running animation still looks like they've shit themselve lol
I think lots of noise was made for Gears 4 just the same....Still remember all the foaming at the mouth from Digital Foundry, but Gears 4 didn't even win best graphics that year...…....
Also, this is not 4k native 60fps on XBONEX...….It's also funny that so much noise was made about the 12Gb's on XBONEX and that all titles would have 4k textures as a result, yet here, only the PC has ultra textures....
I think the narrator's justification was AO, SSR, MSAA etc. on PC, pretty standard stuff tbh... He spoke of character detail and animation as also being very good, so I guess we can always judge this against other games in proper comparisons...……..I personally liked the snow sections from the time I saw it at E3, the lake area particularly, not so much for technical reasons but it looked different from the typical Gears locations, definitely more vibrant...….
All in all, I don't think Gears 5 looks that much better than Gears 4 tbh, physics may have been dialed down a bit from 4, hence why, it may run a bit more consistently at 60fps on XBONEX now. Ground textures and detail looks improved......but the waterfalls look bad, especially from far away...….I think it's simply Gears 4 with a bit more variety in scenes/locations and a little more graphical polish minus the physics heavy stuff.....