How The Game Is Played

A travelog of alternate realities

So,
Lost of people around here have heard me snort whenever second life is mentioned as a good example of a "virtual world." You will get the same reaction from most gamers. I could try to explain why, but they say a picture is wroth a thousand words.

So here is a little journey in stills across two current, real virtual worlds in two games today-- City of Heroes and Age of Conan. Please realize that as impressive as these are, they don't really do the games justice because there are all kinds of in game animated effects you cant really see in stills. Ripples on the water, things like that.

Also please keep in mind that there are no backdrops. Everything you see in the distance is real geometry that
can be approached, walked on or otherwise interacted with. The jaggies you see are because these are full screen sized shots that I set for reduced size in the web page so you could look at them easily in a browser.

Posted at 04:35AM Jun 14, 2008 by gameguy in General  |