The answer lies in the man to the left -- the far left. Yes, that is Stone Temple Pilots you hear in your head singing, "I'm half the man I used to be." Beyond the issue of the half-missing player in this "bullshot," we could go on about things we think are altered, but there's no proof. One thing that looks consistently wrong (not only in the image above, but in many of the shots, with another example below) is the ball. Once again, we can't be sure about all the things that were altered in these images, but we can be sure that a man half air-brushed out proves that these images had a little work done on them. Our little PSA: Never take a "screenshot" at face value, for it may merely be "bullshot."
















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It's too perfect.
Simply amazing.
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This is looking to be the best basketball game of the entire year.
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The PS3 only comes with composite cables? I thought they included component cables, but I could be wrong...
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The PS3 only comes with composite cables? I thought they included component cables, but I could be wrong...
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These renders have traits like far better lighting, incredible anti-aliasing and polygon counts that could not be sustained in realtime on the target hardware.
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Zach Randolph doesn't play defense!
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Notice how in the bottom left portion of the screen the player is missing about half of his body.
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One thing that I do find interesting, however, is that the shorts for every player seem to use the same normal map (as is clear from the various team pictures.)
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Anyone who knows anything about how a camera works will understand that the rays of a lensflare cannot be partially obstructed like that, since they occur inside the camera's lens.
Whoever was in charge of cropping these images (and frankly: do you NEED someone else in charge of cropping these images?) messed up. Or its possible someone greenlighted an older draft because it fit the size/resolution better, not realizing that the older draft was in fact incomplete.
Either way: hilarious.
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EA always doctors there stuff. Remember the ridiculous rendered trailer they put out for Madden for Next gen and then the game came out and it still looked like crap. I still doesn't look as good as the trailer they put out. I honestly think VC is better about representing their games.
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NBA 2K8 FTW!
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By the way -- not saying EA hasn't ever done anything sneaky, of course -- but this example doesn't mean they were trying to fake any effects or misrepresent the graphical quality of the game, it just shows that they thought the guy on the left was distracting.
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look at his face in this one
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/image_viewer/frame_lead.php?pid=939306&img=12&sid=undefined
you can see the over lay of the pros face on the games body to make the face look real
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