PlanetSide Screenshots

March 19, 2003 7:20 PM

The PlanetSide media page has been updated, offering two more screenshots from Sony Online's upcoming massively multiplayer first person shooter. Thanks VE3D.

Maarten Goldstein

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bigimp

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March 20, 2003 2:33 AM

I don't understand how this always happens to FPSs in their screenshots... how could a game go from looking like this on March 6 2001:
http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/planetside//2/thumbs/030601_verant_3.jpg
http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/planetside//3/thumbs/030701_verant_2.jpg

to looking like this, two years later:
http://planetside.station.sony.com/screenshots/Lightning_Explosion.jpg
http://planetside.station.sony.com/screenshots/msoquito4.jpg

What, do they start with a game then spend 2 years dismantling it to a pile of poo?
- Speedy8
  
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  March 20, 2003 4:24 AM
  
  It's called "fog". Anyone ever tried Battlefield 1942 with 200% fog distance before they patched it back to 100 max? It made the game look soooo much better. Fog just ruins it for me, but you will probably need it in a game like planetside to keep the framerate reasonable.
- Breycor
  
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  March 20, 2003 9:13 AM
  
  I see what you mean...the game looks very bland now.
  
  It looks like we are regressing in technology.