Lighting the Sprawl in Dead Space 2

Yes

Almost……… T_T

damn it you guys are quick!

Comment something poignant for once, firsters.

Why havent I bought this game yet?

This game is great.  Almost everything from a technical perspective feels like it was well produced and highly polished. 

Music makes me feel like I'm dreaming    

Just finished the game last night. The lighting and music is really top notch.

How can you not love Dead Space?

 
Still need to play the original and Extraction first as I think I need the full story to really appreciate DS2. The lighting (or more importantly the darkness) make these games along with the fantastic soundtrack score. 
 
Had an epic nerd-rage moment over Ignition over the weekend (to unlock the bonus rig) but a bit of multi-player calmed me down. It's just so satisfying playing as the necromorphs (especially when you spawn just behind a guy or have a group of you hiding around a corner watching them walk towards their impeding doom) but shame the humans are so dull ...

great.... why was this necessary?

Event Horizon is my favorite movie too, Visceral.

On my second play through now and i still get distracted playing with the lighting and physics...they are truly amazing

They really seemed to put a lot of effort in but I guess its needed in a game like this. Great sound as well in the game.  

 

Dead Space 2 is a perfect sequel. If only it had had some more audio logs... :( Felt like there was a lot of personal stories they could have told that they missed out on. 
 
Regardless, lighting. I don't even know how they did the video-as-volumetric-lightsource stuff. The technology is superb.

shouldnt video like this come out BEFORE the game was release? to advertise the game?

I love the TF2 posters in the background.

Isn't this something that would routinely be put up before the games release?

Awesome, being a lighting artist would be a super interesting job

Always love to see behind the scenes videos!

The strobing in one of those tunnels you crawl through actually hurt my eyes a lot, I was having a hard time even looking at the screen.

LOUD SOUNDS.

I read that as lightning first...

" They really seemed to put a lot of effort in but I guess its needed in a game like this. Great sound as well in the game.  

 

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 The lighting on the Ishimura was great, really made it stand out. All the work lights and light up blood.  

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Cool beans!

cool.  they talked down the lighting and setting in DS1 but I thought they did an amazing job of both in the first game.  There were a lot of very different looking areas in the ship.  maybe it's just a hard sell for the new game and they are willing to trash on the first a little bit.  whatever.  The lighting does indeed look good.  Can't wait to check it out first hand.

This game is great! Almost done with playthrough 2 and almost have all the achievements for it. Hard Core is going to be interesting. Posting a review about this tomorrow.

Anybody interesting in modding for their favorite game or creating their own will go through a few steps, and, after downloading their tool of choice, an important one always pops up: Finding a tutorial to guide you through the tool.
 
And almost invariably, every time, the writer will emphasize to the user that lighting makes EVERYTHING. You could have the most beautiful environments in any game, but if they're not lit with purpose, you're sitting on a drab game space.
 
Wonderful video.

Wow, that was a developer diary that actually revealed something interesting about the development rather than just the usual "we want to give it 110%" kind of junk I see elsewhere.  Good show guys!  I've done lighting myself in the course of level design and it's always a challenge to get the right compromise between playability and atmosphere, no matter what the game is.

Visceral Games is a developer of probably one of the higher calibres in technical development in a game. Their focus on audio and lighting in games is fantastic, often very overlooked or neglected in other development parties (especially audio).

" Wow, that was a developer diary that actually revealed something interesting about the development rather than just the usual "we want to give it 110%" kind of junk I see elsewhere.  Good show guys! "

After having played through the first 5 missions in this game i totally agree the lights are like a character in this game, such a key role plus the sound is amazing too, cant wait to finish this game and probably will get Dead Space 1 just because im loving  Dead Space 2.

Having completed the game, I can vouch for them 100%.  The lighting is truly extraordinary. 

I surprised that they didn't mention the couple of pitch-black parts where the only light actually comes from Isaac's visor. Leads to a really cool effect where the light and shadows actually depend of what suit you're wearing.

Dead Space 2 to me is a religion, and the environments are the SHIT!

I heard they really tried to make the experience more... visceral. 
 

So far I'm very impressed with the visual quality of the game. And it's fun too!

I wanna see one on sound design.

" I wanna see one on sound design. "

awesome shit but the people speaking sound high or bored

Who turned out the lights!?

Interesting design choice allocating so many people to lighting, but it makes sense for this game.  It really shows too, the lighting is superb.  Even on large projects like feature length CG films there isn't as much man power devoted to lighting, in my experience it's left to the individual modelers and animators to light their scenes.

I must say they are really not overselling this, the lighing in the game is amazing.

Ian and his team, is nothing short of genius people.