I have been excited about Hawken for awhile, not just because it looks like a great game but it will also be making heavy use of GPU PhysX as confirmed by the developers. Geforce.com has done a nice video interview with Bill Wagner of Meteor Entertainment at the recent E3 expo about the GPU PhysX effects that are implemented into Hawken. The video also shows Hawken being played over the new GeForce GRID cloud gaming platform. I am really interested in GeForce GRID and how it could enable multiplayer games to make extensive use of PhysX that we currently only see in single player games. If all of the PhysX calculations could be done in a single location it would reduce the bandwidth and delay that would be associated with having thousands of PhysX objects in the game with dozens of players located in different areas, definitely something I have to look into some more! Check out the video below and the official Hawken website for more information.
In addition to being a flagship title for Gaikai and our GeForce GRID cloud gaming platform, Hawken will feature GPU-accelerated PhysX effects on suitably equipped NVIDIA-powered PCs, as revealed by Bill Wagner of Meteor Entertainment when we spoke to him at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
“The partnership with NVIDIA has been terrific for us, we’re really happy with it,” he says, “and we’re going to be taking advantage of a number of NVIDIA technologies. A lot of the stuff [uses] PhysX Particles, so when players are shooting at walls or other mechs you’re going to see debris, you’re going to see chunks of stuff go flying everywhere, looking very realistic, and those particles won’t just disappear, you’re going to see that stuff remaining on the ground, so when a mech takes a big jump off of a building and they land, and the ground cracks, and you see all the debris flying everywhere you’re actually going to be able to kick that around in your mech, and you’ll come around a corner and see devastation everywhere.”
Furthermore, Bill talks of additional post-launch enhancements in the form of GPU-accelerated APEX modules, such as Destruction: “We want to get in some more heavy destruction, so when buildings and ships blow up you’re going to see debris flying everywhere.” For those unfamiliar with APEX, it is a multi-platform suite containing numerous modules that help enhance games with GPU-accelerated effects. Rather than providing a low-level API that requires a physics programmer, APEX creates an environment where artists can create complex, high-level, dynamic systems without any additional programming.
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