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you should tell that to the majority demographic of internet gamers.

why do people keep saying that games are near photrealistic?

Because we are pretty close to photorealism, just look at this (GT on PS2) or that (Crysis). Its not quite photorealism, but already pretty close and those are games either already out or to come out in a few month, a late PS3 game or XBox360 game might look quite a bit better, not even mentioning what PS4 or XBox720 will be capable of. However this is just photorealism, as in non-moving images, where the realism falls apart is soon as you add motion into the mix. The reason that Oblivion didn't really look as good as it was supposed to wasn't the rendering, but the character animation and unrealistic physic engine, you don't want stuff to slide on the ground and enemy just falling to ground with a generic die animation, completly ignoring the sword hit you have them, things just don't work like that in real life. Neither does a car get a scratch in the paint when you drive it with 200mph against a wall. In many first person shooters the player doesn't even use his arms to climb a ladder. Its all stuff like that were even the most realistic graphics fall completly apart. Now I don't know if those physics and animation problems will be solve to a reasonable degree in this console generation or in the next, but in terms of pure rendering photo realism is really quite close and Final Fantasy movie quality rendering is something I definitvly expect in this console generation.

That said there are of course also effects that are not do able in realtime and probally won't for quite a while, like caustics for example, however since most of them can be faked, aproximated or simply avoided it will probally make little difference to the realism of realtime rendering.

http://www.gamesfirst.com/?id=1125 debuted at CES

See, there's this little known site called "Slashdot", they ran something on it.

Or you can go with Joystiq, or GamesFirst!, and there's always the Wikipedia.

Hey, you can always try Google for more articles, there are plenty!

But if you REALLY want a Sony press release, the only one I can find about the PS3 PERIOD is this one, and they're notably silent about online support - the word "online" appears ONCE.

Both the Intellivion and Colecovision. However it probably wouldn't work today because of the underlying software (such as the BIOS). Of course we shouldn't overlook Bleemcast which while only playing three PS1 games (even with graphical improvements) before Sony sued them into oblivion.

Reviews
http://gamesfirst.com/v4/index.php?m=l&i=372
http://www.gamingillustrated.com/dgl4300.php
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/d-link_dgl-4300/

Competition
http://www.dlink.com/giveaway/monthlyGiveaway.asp

In an attempt to hijack this topic with sexist piffle, I just remembered that the not-good Jurassic Park:Trespasser had a particularly amusing body-image 'angle' if you looked down while playing - see this Games First review and scroll down for the screenshot in question. Uhoh.

A lot of people don't realize this but the protagonist in the game is based on a real, late actor Yusaku Matsuda. I didn't realize this myself until I saw previews of Onimusha 3 which will feature Jean Freakin' Reno. It is interesting that an actor will be playing a video game character, who in turn is based on another actor.

Thanks for the mod down guys... how's this for "overrated"?

Some pics:
http://www.thetechzone.com/display.php?i=165&p =1

Small article then lots of pics (some cute some HORRENDOUS):
http://www.graphicpower.com/showreports/boothbabes .stm

More babe lovin':
http://www.psillustrated.com/e3_2000/babes_report. html

And last, a short documentary on booth babes:
http://www.gamesfirst.com/articles/shawn/boothbabe s/boothbabes.htm

Enjoy!

Hmm, first review I visited bore out your description - 2 stars out of 5.

http://www.gamesfirst.com/reviews/clayn/fightingle gends/flo.htm

But how the h*ll did you get such high reviews here? 5 out of 5? wtf???

http://www.pcgamereview.com/reviews/strategy/produ ct_1567.asp

Mental note to self, avoid user-reviews like the plague on pcgamereview.com.

That they farm out the AI work to other machines playing the game, SETI style.

see here

Not sure how they are going to manage if nobody is online though!

Ok, here's some more booth babe links here they are! and here! more and more here too here's a documentary on the species and here's an interesting article including interviews with the babes

Like if anybody around here would be interested in a flight simulator gone open source and could be ported to SDL. That is soooo un-interesting. Much more fun to have a debate about the last minor-point release fo Wine, yes sir.

Get the source here

If you're just curious about the game

"They seemed able to focus on what they were doing much better than other people and also had better general co-ordination," said one of the researchers. "The skills they learned on computers seem to transfer to the real world."