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BioShock Widescreen Slices Vertical View
by Nick Breckon, Aug 21, 2007 11:03am PDTIn a rapidly-expanding thread on the 2K Games forum, reports are
coming in that 2K Boston and Australia's just-released shooter BioShock (PC, X360) uses a cropping method for its widescreen display, cutting down on the vertical view rather than expanding the horizontal width (illustrated left). The problem apparently exists for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions, and cannot be fixed with an edit of the game's FOV (field of view) setting.
The issue took forum goers by surprise, as 2K Boston lead programmer Chris Kline assured fans last May that BioShock's widescreen view would show more, rather than less. "The game will render in full 16:9 aspect ratio, with no letterboxing unless your resolution is not true 16:9," Kline said in a thread on the 2K forums. "You will see more in widescreen. We use a different projection matrix; there is no squashing or stretching of the image involved." Shacknews can confirm that the problem exists in the PC demo of BioShock, and has contacted 2K Games for comment.
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Obviously the team put a lot of thought and polish on their game, but this, to me, is a huge oversight on their part. I thoroughly enjoyed the demo but felt like I had tunnel vision, and combine that with the jerky mouse movement (using 1 sensitivity in-game), I had to look around a lot to get a feel for the surroundings. I really hope they fix this in a patch, but Unreal 2004 had this problem, and it never got fixed though they promised they would, and this being an Unreal engine as well ... sigh.
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It makes you feel like you are running around with glasses on. Magnifiying everything a little bit. Cutting off some of your peripheral vision.
Back in the Doom and Quake days, the default FOV angle was a bit more wide. I think it was exactly 90 degrees, but I am not sure. Nowadays, FPS games tend for a tighter FOV angle in the 70's or 80's. Going widescreen just cuts down on your vertical pheripheral vision instead of opening up your horizonal periphral vision.
People don't like how that feels.
Many people like games that let them open that angle up via a console command or config setting, so they can have better peripheral vision. Unfortunately, Bioshock doesn't allow you to adjust the FOV.
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