Dude Huge: “Code Magic” Can Squeeze More Power Out Of 360.
Cliffy B and the Wunder Heads behind Gears of War 3 offered up a gorgeous HGH-fueled engine that somehow still surprised even this late into the 360’s life cycle. Dude Huger has proclaimed that even more can be gotten getted good.
Speaking to Next-Gen, Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski expressed his belief that developers can still sap some untapped potential from Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Said Bleszinski, “With creative programming you can squeeze anything out of any given platform,” adding that all is needed is “a little code magic.”
Bleszinski stated that Epic employed such magic in creating Gears of War 3, noting, “We’re now at at the point where it’s not learning how to use the hardware, it’s learning to trick the hardware into doing what you want it to do.” He compared the current state of Xbox 360 to the end of the Super Nintendo era, when programmers “started using Mode 7 in ways you never expected.”
Anything out of any given platform? Not sure about that one.