Real lookers
Posted on May 19, 2003 @ 12:33 in Games
So the E3 is over and we're left with a couple of awesome previews and trailers.
My personal favorite is the Halo 2 trailer. The quality of this trailer isn't so great, as it was videotaped from a screening at E3, but the quality of the game and gameplay still is apparent. The Halo fans at bungie.org say that probably later this week an official version of this screening will be made available by Bungie(.com) itself. Good.
The Half-Life 2 trailer is also taped from a screening, but the quality is pretty good. It shows the game in action and showcases a lot of the technology that's in there. It seems that with games like HL2 real-life physics are becoming prerequisites for games and even though still not perfect, the facial movements of CG characters are slowly becoming acceptable. The environments, especially walls and buildings, still look slightly flat and repetitive, although much of the environment seems to react credibly to the user's actions.
Nothing cardboard about the Doom III trailer. It looks positively spooky. The environments seem to have 'body', although that might be mostly due to the lighting and the shadows, and maybe they're not as manipulable as Half-Life's environments, but they certainly look really good. In a generation or two (think leaps between the original Half-Life and HL2: might be another 4 to 8 years) I think video games will have reached a level of realism through technological capability that will allow designers and developers to focus first on game experience and story-line, rather than advancing technology first.
First out the door (June 20th) though, is the new Tomb Raider adventure, Angel of Darkness (trailer here). I'm curious to see if they've been able to refresh the Lara franchise and if this will really be a departure from the original Tomb Raider series looks and gameplay.
Not really related, but still interesting, an article about cheating at Tomshardware.com: Cheating - Multiplayer Gaming's Achilles' heel?
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Posted by Graye on May 21, 2003 @ 04:01
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Posted by Frank on May 22, 2003 @ 21:01
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