They're just going to be the ones with their jaws closest to the floor." "But we're never going to be in a situation where the only people setting the best scores online are the ones with stereoscopic 3D. ![]() The flashier your kit the more flattering it is and the more likely it is to make games that involve understanding and judging the environment a little more intuitive. "The analogy essentially works in the same way. "The analogy would be, you're playing a game on a fifty-inch high definition set and someone else is playing it on a CRT with a coat hanger hanging out the back," he said. Sony's comments were later countered by MotorStorm: Apocalypse's game director Matt Southern, who admitted 3D makes playing games "more intuitive" but insisted there is no advantage to be gained from it. It helps to enhance the sense of speed and scale and excitement in the game." We can make the building feel like it's going to collapse down on top of you. On upcoming arcade racer MotorStorm: Apocalypse, Hocking had this to say: "We can throw particles through the screen at you. You can judge relative speed to the other cars or relative speed to the track better than you could before." You can position your car on a track with greater certainty. "You can judge or brake a distance to a corner that much better than you could before. "With something like a racing simulation, this gives us greater accuracy," Hocking said. ![]() You end up in a 3D environment getting a bit of a tunnelled effect going on, and it can actually be quite nauseating if you're doing hour or two-hour long playing sessions."ĭuring a presentation at the Develop Conference last year Sony Computer Entertainment Europe senior director Mick Hocking described in detail why playing Gran Turismo 5 and MotorStorm: Apocalypse in 3D is better. "For us we're always racing for that point at the centre of the screen. "For us, with it being quite a horizon based racer, 3D isn't as helpful as it would be in a game like MotorStorm where the environment's changing around you, stuff's falling down and you're doing big drops. The game is DiRT 3, the rally racer from Codemasters, which supports stereoscopic 3D only in a basic way on PC - and not at all on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.Ĭhief game designer Paul Coleman explained to Eurogamer why. ![]() But for one upcoming racing game the tech does more harm than good – and can even make you feel sick. Stereoscopic 3D has been touted as the next big thing for racing games – indeed Sony claims 3D gives gamers a "competitive edge".
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