When the game was announced the forums went into mass hysteria and almost everywhere you had looked there was a new question about the game. And one question that had seemed to appear most was “if the trailer was in real-time?”, meaning was it using the games engine.

Seeing that in the first game every cutsence was done in that manner, GameZine had to confirm with Naughty Dog if the trailer was done in real-time. It just happen to be that the games lead character artist Richard Diamant who answered the question saying, “yes, it was all rendered real-time in our engine.”

Anyway, GameZine had also asked Richard about the cutsense to game-play differences. Richard responded saying, “the in-game models are the exact same models that are used in the cutscenes. They also use the exact same textures.”

What this announcement means that Naughty Dog is trying to make it so that “there really is no difference between them at all,” so we can expext a very good looking game from them.

In an interview with Eurogamer, Cliff Bleszinski told them that his favorite aspect of Gears 2 was getting into, i quote, “Dom’s head a little bit more, figuring out who this Dom Santiago is, who his wife was and what wound up happening to her.”

He also said that he is “excited to see the large scale battle scenes and a lot of the coolness we’re putting in the multiplayer feature set.”

[Cliff Bleszinski and Kudo Tsunoda Interview via Eurogamer]

At PlayStation Day held in London, Mr. Colin Munson, Lead Designer on Resistance 2, hinted at the possibility of an open beta for Resistance 2.

He said that there definitely would be a closed beta for the ambitious FPS. While it’s still up in the air whether there will be an open beta test that the general public could take part in, Mr. Munson said it is a real possibility.

[Open beta for Resistance 2? via Gameplayer]