Word: oddworld
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...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...
...whose "emotion engine" system is so arcane that it has left a lot of developers badly burned. "PlayStation 2 is like a Maserati: looks great, but every time you take it in for an oil change, they have to take out the radiator," says Lorne Lanning, CEO of Oddworld Inhabitants, who led his Oddworld game from PlayStation to Xbox in mid-development. "The Xbox is more like...
BRAND X Bill Gates wants you to hold off buying that PlayStation2. Microsoft's Xbox game console won't arrive for 10 months, but developers are already promising their popular game franchises, including Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Oddworld and WWF Raw Is War. The demos look great, but the high-tech hardware still doesn't fit into the cool case that debuted last week at CES in Las Vegas...
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