“The GeForce FX GPU is incredibly fast,” said Gabe Newell, founder and president of Valve Software.  “Over the last few years, NVIDIA has spoiled us with regular performance leaps, but this time we’re talking ridiculously fast.  Game developers are going to have to look to movie quality production values just to absorb all of the horsepower that NVIDIA is giving us.”

“With Command & Conquer Generals we wanted to bring a Hollywood action experience to the real-time strategy genre,” said Mark Skaggs, general manager at EA Pacific.  “NVIDIA’s GeForce FX GPU couldn’t have come along a better time.  We’re looking forward to leveraging the power and features of the GeForce FX GPU to deliver the best possible experience to gamers.”

“The strengths of the GeForce FX GPU will allow gamers to experience Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell exactly the way the designers intended,” said Jay Cohen, vice president of publishing at Ubi Soft Entertainment.  “Gamers will be able to participate in the stealth action by crouching in dynamic, soft shadows and they can use glow effects and thermal vision to carry out their missions undetected.  This kind of technology allows players to become immersed in the gaming experience like never before.”

Stuart Moulder, general manager of Microsoft Games Studios adds:  “Now everybody really needs the best visual effects they can have for their games to really shine, whether it’s a strategy game, or a first-person action game, or a sports title.  You need great lighting effects, you need to be able to make characters look realistic and human, and that’s true for any genre of game now.”

“With the GeForce FX GPU we now have very, very accurate lighting,” said Tim Sweeney of Epic Games, makers of the renowned Unreal Engine.  “You’ll be able to see the shadow of the character’s nose sweep across his face as the light moves around and it’ll be very smooth and realistic.”

“We are deeply impressed by the performance characteristics of the latest NVIDIA GeForce FX GPU.  Its processing power combined with an extremely high visual quality is fantastic,” said Ingo Frick, technical director at Massive Entertainment.  “The high internal precision of the graphics data, as well as the variety of new antialiasing techniques, leaves nothing to be desired. This technology enables us to create an almost cinematic yet also interactive world in our current game, AquaNox2: Revelation.”

“Pixels shaders and vertex shaders I think showed a lot of promise when they came online, but clearly they were limited and it was just kind of a vision of the way things could be,” said Mark Poesch, technical lead at Legend.  “The GeForce FX GPU really is that step where it goes from being a vision of how cool things can be, to being able to actually prove that we can make it real now.”