I got it today, and I promptly creamed my pants at how good it looks. The sound effects alone are amazing, too.
A note about the requirements, though. I have a 2.4 P4 with 1GB of RAM and a Radeon 9600, and I
cannot run it playably in any resolution higher than 1024x768, and if I even turn on the lowest level of anti-aliasing (2x... it goes up to 16x), the play bogs down like a motherfucker, although the still shots that I get to see make me blow my load.
I can run it on "ultra-high" quality, which really just ups the polygon count and increases the texture detail, but there are minor pauses when there's lots of stuff happening, making it impractical for normal play. It gives you a warning when you set it to ultra-high, too. It tells you that it's going to be using 500MB of RAM just for textures. :O
1024x768, no anti-aliasing (it really doesn't need any) and high detail is smooth as silk.
The best things about it so far are:
- fire effects rival those in pre-rendered CG movies
- models cast shadows on themselves, even their noses and dimples do.
- faces move to match words
- lighting effects are fucking amazing. I walked around for a few minutes turning the flashlight on and off. :O
- exit wounds on bad guys
I also got a free copy of KotOR from the store when I bought it.