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"Microsoft games CON!"

This is incredibly unbelievable!

Remember that SSX clone Microsoft were happy to show pictures of...?

The pictures are fake! I can't believe it!

Now, I have to say at this point, that Microsoft have not yet come forward to confirm this, (I wonder why...), so this is still unofficial.

But... these are so fake! Hat's off to a IGN forum member for finding this, and Planet Gamecube for the story.

Look at this picture... remove spaces.

http://xbox.com/games/ amped/assets/amped-image-1.jpg

Planet Gamecube comment:

"First, there is a lens flare seemingly added to the screenshot that can be duplicated PERFECTLY with a standard Photoshop lens flare operation.

Second, there are white edges all around the snowboarder, and they do not appear to be caused by antialiasing. In fact, it's the same "edging" you find whenever you cut and paste an object into another scene. There is also a curious "green pixel" that is on TOP of the showboarder's face that shouldn't be there. It turns out that this is actually a pixel from the Photoshop lens flare overlay that was not cleaned up.

Lastly, the snowboarder appears to be standing still, but the speedometer shows the speed as 51 MPH."

Next, these two pictures.

http://xbox.com/ games/amped/assets/ amped-image-2.jpg

http://xbox.com/ games/amped/assets/ amped-image-4.jpg

Firstly, the backgrounds are both the same... and it's pretty damn obvious that the cloud in the top left corner has been copied and pasted...


This is unbelieveable... but so funny! After my slating of the X-Box's graphics, the only ones I really thought to be impressive, were one RPG's graphics, and the snowboarding one... at least the characters anyway.

Now one is fake! The characters could easily be rendered and copied on... but why the hell did they think they could get away with it? Were they bullied by Microsoft into making sure they had something decent? Was the pressure too emmense?

Judge for yourselves.

Give a link to a faked picture then Rav...

Hmmmmm... Why is everyone sooo amazed that the shots were faked????? The same thing happens with sooooo many games. Even the best known ones. Take Armoured core on the PS2... I guarentee u that every single pic released of the sequal is touched up to smooth out edges. Also, many screen shots of PS2 games before the console was actually seen were generated off PCs and bear no relevance to the final product.

The same is true of the N64 and DC... the fact is that the DEVELOPERS do it! How is Sega/nintendo/sony/Microsoft gonna stop a dveloper sending pics to magazines that have been touched up. In this example the pics came from MS... but how would they know they were faked??? If u could see that so obviously then u can obviously see the MGS2 pics are faked- after all, no game looks THAT good!

Sonic

I'll have a look as well.

Ali, I remember that issue, and know I used to have it. It might still be at my parents place in a box somewhere.

I'll try to find out for you.

Actually, backtracking a bit, I have won a bit of a special competition before. Longtime readers of the Official Nintendo Magazine may remember a competition that ran about 4-5 years ago to win a Mortal Kombat 2 arcade machine. Well, it was won by yours truly. If anyone still has a copy, I would love to see it again, it was the one with a small cave boy on the front cover, I think, can't remember exactly which issue though. Anyone else remember that?

Ironically, on www.x-box.com, they have a new slogan.

"And now for some truth..."

Irony has never tasted so sweet.

And now, a hilarious update.

Microsoft have now answered the claims...

Microsoft's version.

"Some of the images for Amped released during Gamestock were enhanced to illustrate some features that will be in the final product. While this is a common practice for games so early in development, we apologize for the confusion. No one intended to be deceptive. Everyone was so busy prepping for Gamestock, that we just missed the fact that these were labeled "concept art". Frankly, we're impressed with the skillz of those digital sleuths! Nice work!"

Let's just feed this into the GTTPM. Or get to the point machine...


GTTPM version.

"We change the images for Amped because, to be honest, at the moment the game looks awful. We thought that no-one would notice... and we didn't think anybody other than us used Photoshop. And by the way... it isn't JUST US! Really! Loads of people do it... I'm not the only boy to get a D mother... we all did... *Cough*"

"Err... we were very busy... and we forgot to say that they weren't real... I have NO idea how we forgot to mention that..."

"Actually, it was a test. Congratulations, you managed to work out that we made some fake pictures! ...Err..."

Zelda wasn't FMV Sniper.

So after showing loads of games in development... they launched one game.

Yes... but how exactly is that compared to doctoring a picture to get more interest?

It's not cheating at all! Metroid will not be released at launch, and neither will Zelda!

As with the Sega one... it's the first I've heard of that. But this Microsoft thing is a scam.

Apple have done the same thing for quite a lot of their new systems...

most famously the graphics chip fiasco...