planetside
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And Just Like That, Planetside 2 Looks Cool
While the large-scale premise is interesting, I just haven’t been that keen on Planetside 2. Not sure why. Might have something to do with the garish art design. Whatever, I just have not been feeling it!
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PlanetSide 2 Plays Like A First-Person Shooter, Not A Massively Multiplayer Compromise
The original massively multiplayer online FPS, PlanetSide, promised competitive first-person shooting on a massive scale. It got the scale right, but tech limitations made for gameplay that was a pale shadow of its more traditional shooter counterparts. With PlanetSide 2 technology has finally caught up to Sony Online Entertainment’s ambition.
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Watch Planetside 2’s Sky Lance Sketched, Modelled And Textured From Scratch
Well, almost scratch. The designer starts off with the basic shapes but, from there, you’ll see it go from shaded blobs to coherent blocks, then to polygons before finally being finished off with all the small details. I can say, from experience, it’s pretty much exactly how artists go about creating in-game 3D assets.
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Hope You’re Ready For Some New PlanetSide
We already know Sony Online Entertainment is working on a new Planetside game. That’s…about all we know. We should know more come July 7, though, as that’s when a countdown clock on the series’ website expires.