First shot of Factor 5's Lair for PS3! [Update 1]

by James Ransom-Wiley on Mar 27th 2006 6:25PM

This image, reportedly of Factor 5's upcoming PS3 title Lair, recently surfaced on the Internet. Aside from a short trailer on display at TGS last year, little has been seen of Lair, which focuses on dragon combat. If this is an in-game shot, which the visible HUD-like information (action icon, life bar) seems to indicate, than Lair is shaping up to be a visual masterpiece. But given the current track record of pre-release PS3 media, we're not gonna jump on the bandwagon — just yet.

UPDATE: added link to high-res image.

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Tags: Factor 5, Factor5, Lair, PS3, SCEA, Sony-Computer-Entertainment-America

Reader Comments (51)

The picture is absolutely real. It's from a GDC presentation made by Factor5 on increasing game budgets. This game has $23-25m being sunk into it.

Oh, and the GoW comparisons are laughable. The character models alone in Lair have 10-20x the poly count of those in GoW (and a Factor5 artist actually made a point of highlighting this at a presentation on it some months ago). Truly these are probably the most complex in-game models we've seen to date. If you look at the TGS trailer, some of the detail is unbelievable, and nothing like we've seen in GoW - individual muscle simulation, air resistance to the dragons' wings, water running off the dragons and their wings in the rain, etc. Then again, we haven't yet seen Lair in its fullest context yet, so comparisons are probably best left until E3.

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