Name your best photoreal 2D game you have played.

[Deleted member 13]

I've been playing a lot of Age of Barbarian lately and I must say for a 2D game it is my best photoreal game. It's using an offline render for the characters and the SSS is superb (of course). It just looks so good along with the ambient occlusion used to give the characters self-shadowing. Many 3D games fail at using self-occlusion for in-game characters and rendering SSS on characters in-game fails when they aren't hit with direct sunlight (i.e. devs forego using AO for the character).

 

[mansoor1980]

never even heard of that game , is it any good gameplay wise?

 

[Dr Bass]

This is a GREAT topic, but the only thing that is currently coming to mind is "why did she even bother?"

 

[arvfab]

I don't know if it's "photoreal", but the first game which shot through my mind was Sanitarium. It surely didn't age that well, though.

 

[Dr Bass]

So to address the question .. it does bring to mind some old games that used photos of claymation to try and look like "real" visuals. Clay Fighter. Harley's Humongous Adventure. Then of course you have the MK games which used images taken from live footage of actors. Also rotoscoping of real people in games like Prince of Persia (the original) and Flashback. Those last two examples aren't "photo real" in terms of rendering, but had a "photo real" level of animation that blew my mind at the time.

 

[Deleted member 13]

never even heard of that game , is it any good gameplay wise?

Hell yea! It is based off of the old arcade game in the 80s. The combat is pretty damn good and I love the dismemberment with the sword.

 

[SSfox]

Flash back and og mortal Kombat games

 

[Deleted member 13]

I don't know if it's "photoreal", but the first game which shot through my mind was Sanitarium. It surely didn't age that well, though.

Yea, the art direction was photoshopped with a photoreal color palette. Looks good other than the playable character.

 

[Deleted member 13]

Flash back and og mortal Kombat games

Yup. MK was definitely the best.

 

[Deleted member 141]

Hell yea! It is based off of the old arcade game in the 80s. The combat is pretty damn good and I love the dismemberment with the sword.

Barbarian wasn't an arcade game it was for home micros.

 

[Deleted member 13]

Barbarian wasn't an arcade game it was for home micros.

You are correct. I got that mixed up with Rastan which was in the arcade.