Will you look at this poor man's face?  I'm all for realistic imperfect skin texturing, but this latest bid by Polish developer Techland seems a bit too severe. Compare with this screenshot from Crysis and you'll see why I'm making a fuss. This looks like asphalt! Even the filthiest acne-prone teenagers don't look this bad. Dermatological shortcomings aside, Warhound does promise a few interesting twists to the FPS formula worth noting:

Slip into the skin of a mercenary, charged with eliminating various targets with the four corners from the sphere (Korea, Africa, Balkans, South America, etc) ... it will include/understand some RPG elements and will ask to keep an eye on its finances throughout the adventure in order to be able to buy the material necessary to the escapades as weapons, ammunition or of the vehicles. 

Meanwhile, The Freshmakers are perfecting the FPS jungle sim, so it's hard not to hold this up in comparison. Crysis is going to be such a tough act to follow; my heart goes to any studio stuck trying to share shelf space with it. Hopefully the reported role-playing elements will be enough to help Poland. The game is slated for a year end release on the 360 and PC.

[Via Gamekult] 

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

Darren Nakamura

Maybe the dude just got shot in the face with some rock salt. You never know!

Tim_Stoppard

I never gave them permission to use my picture! I'm very sensitive about it.
*sues*

Tom Fronczak

nasa just found running water in one of those craters

Snaileb

that would seriously suck dex.

Serpentish

All this is building up to one thing. Product placement for Neutrogina and Proactiv.

"Out on an assasination run the stress gives me bad acne problems and blemishes. Proactiv lets me change that by getting the most out of my skin and the most out of my kills."

BahamutZero

hey don't make fun of beautt-challenged people. I for one think killing people with acne is actually doing them a favor. zing

Justice

It's obvious he used sandpaper as soap or was dragged on a carpet continuously

iRaf

this is coming out for the 360?? doesn't sound like a bad game, might have to follow this..

ToasT

Looks like Lawrence Fishburne (Morpheus from Matrix)

Justice

Lawrence fishburn is caramel brown not dark chocolate brown Toastie

deaddays

I'm sure I'll notice all those pores when I'm unloading my machine gun into a crowd and then booking it for cover.

SP420

The fact that they apply the heavy dimples, not acne scars, to the whole face is what makes it somewhat unrealistic. But it'll probably stay that way...

Grimspoon

the other thing that makes it unrealistic is that the dude looks like he was made on a vacuum form table. The crysis shots look great which doesnt really help the poor acne-covered plastic-man very much either.

Aaron Mxy Yost

Mole Man!

humorousllama

Pores on his face ?

i'd be more worried about the developers adding a Tropical rash in full HD.

Niero Gonzalez

That's the thing; there's something just kind of off. Next-gen should look like this: