Hi Dark, Again Monkey Business is a game where the gamer is fooled by a 2D game that pretends to have a 3D like feel. For example, the wall of vines you have to climb to get out of the jungle. You are told to climb the wall of vines. In game mechanics you are actually moving forward on a 2D plane, but since you were told you are climbing up non-programmer types are tricked or fooled into the notion they are moving up and down rather than forward and back. Again it is a clasic programmer trick to simulate 3D without actually going 3D. As for Lonewolf the environment is 3D. However, I think most of the game mechanics was based off a 2D game. For example, the enemy subs are all surface vessels, and have no ability to dive, surface, and simulate a truly 3D combat situation. While Lonewolf is a reasonably fun sub game there are technical inaccuracies in the game which detract from the game for me somewhat.
Dark wrote: > Hi Darran. > > Well under that rather strict deffinition of 3D, I think the only game we've > got that counts would probably be Lone wolf, ---- and maybe Monkey business > (though I haven't exactly got far enough into that game to notice any of the > climbing sections. > > I think it ultimately comes down to a difference betwene a 3D perspective, > and a 3D environment, the one being a function of the user interface (as in > either shades or regular doom), and the other being a function of actual > game mechanics. > > I'm probably not the best person to make distinctions here though, sinse my > own gaming ----- for limited site reasons, has always been restricted to > very strictly 2D games, or at most, 3D one on one beat em ups like Soul > calibur or Mortal combat. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
