Word: detailism
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...Xbox match GameCube for visuals? You bet. If anything, it's even more cinematically realistic and detail obsessed. Just take a walk through the space station in Halo, an action game based on Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novel Ringworld, and you'll notice fingerprint marks on triple-glazed windows. Or check out Oddworld, one of the laugh-out-loud funniest video games in a long time. The scaly textured reflective skin on the alien heroes, Abe and Munch, is easily up to Jurassic Park standards...
...done," according to a senior aide. Next week Energy Secretary Spence Abraham will be hitting the road to try to sell the plan and the president will take it to energy-starved California. And though Cheney led the task force that devised the plan, putting in countless hours of detail work while the President focused on other issues, the product no longer carries his name or title. Until last week, internal copies of the task force's 176-page report had a royal blue cover bearing the Vice Presidential seal. But when the report was officially released, the Presidential seal...
...stories all involve a woman's quiet moments alone or with others, revealing complex emotions with subtly and efficiency. Twice I found myself feeling like I had experienced another person's life. Twice! The black and white art, all done with super-fine pen lines, has plenty of nice detail. Masilamani does faces especially well, giving them an expressiveness and range that can't be reached with simplified characters...
...show like this, so sprawling and vagrant in its scope and so impressionistic in its detail, is bound to be plagued by the question, If this, why not that? Especially nowadays, when we are used to assigning the same density of meaning (or lack of it) to a pot or a cigarette case as to a painting. Few visitors, for instance, will find their hackles raised by the inclusion of those essential emblems of California street art, the custom car and the hot rod. But if anything, the trouble is that the show seems rather weak on them. Good that...
...example, one big achievement is instead of using competing and contradictory information, now the airlines and the FAA use the exact same weather predication map. Another: there is a "National Playbook," which, much like a NFL version, sketches out in precise detail how players will react to certain situations - only the participants are airplanes, and they maneuver around thunderstorms, not 350-lb. defensive linemen...