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E3: James Cameron's Avatar: The Game Comments by Ellie Gibson

4 June, 2009

Is 3D the future?

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mr_chimp
04/06/09 @ 08:53
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I'm not sure I want to hear the story of how you got your hands on his Titanic Oscar.
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04/06/09 @ 08:53
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So, what about the game?
kangarootoo
04/06/09 @ 08:56
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Another proper article from Ellie. More of the same please.
Britesparc
04/06/09 @ 09:11
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Has anyone read All Star Batman & Robin, where Batman reveals he spent his childhood in a cave eating raw rats to prepare to become the Batman? Ellie's like that - she spends all year reviewing Barbie games for the Wii to prepare for hilarious and insightful articles come E3.
AphoticCosmos
04/06/09 @ 09:17
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Ellie I love you.

I'm actually quite excited about Avatar - both the game and the movie. I thought I wouldn't be but Cameron seems to be delivering on it.
Darren
04/06/09 @ 09:24
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I'm excited about Avatar the movie for sure because James Cameron is behind it but I'm a lot less excited about the game because movie-licensed games are very rarely exceptional.
agparrot
04/06/09 @ 09:47
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That 3D stuff doesn't work on my poor, deformed eyes, so I'll sit on the sidelines and wonder what all the fuss is about.

Hopefully I'll be dead before this revolutionises gaming, then I can muddle through the rest of my gaming life in blissful 2D.
Pike
04/06/09 @ 09:49
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2D or 3D. Doesn't matter. As long as I get the choice to slaughter tree hugging hippies, even if they are blue aliens, I'm sold.
spekkeh
04/06/09 @ 09:53
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I don't really get it. Why would they only make it possible for DLP? What's the advantage over the ordinary double screen when you still have to wear glasses?
justanotherdave
04/06/09 @ 10:42
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Whens this game out then? beacuse it does seems a little silly to put it all that effort & keep banging on about it being 3D if its only going to work on tellies hardly anyone can afford? I (& im sure a lot of other people) upgraded to 1080p 12 months ago & im not looking for a new telly for at least another 5 years.
sickpuppysoftware
04/06/09 @ 10:49
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I haven't had a HD telly for long, buggered if I'm shelling out for a new telly any time in the next 5 years.

Not until 3D pr0n at any rate
AphoticCosmos
04/06/09 @ 10:52
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Also, I thought only the super-expensive 120Hz monitors and tellies could actually do polarised 3D. NVIDIA certainly seems to think so. I'm not shelling out £400 for a new monitor and some fancy shades when I have a perfectly good monitor and some nice shades already.
Tomo
04/06/09 @ 11:25
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I'm surprised so much of the game has been allowed out. Avatar is/was shrouded in secrecy and this is the first I've actually seen of the movie world from anywhere?!

Has a trailer for the movie been released? Surely the game's unveiling hasn't taken the sheets off everything...
Britesparc
04/06/09 @ 11:49
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@ Tomo

As far as I'm aware this the most information that's ever been released about the plot. Empire magazine had an on-set interview with Cameron last month and he didn't go into nearly this much detail.
makeamazing
04/06/09 @ 12:15
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Sounds a bit rubbish to be honest, hope its not...
BadBoyBonner
04/06/09 @ 12:16
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Spekkh

DLP can switch very fast and thus display 120hz quite easily - hence almost all DLP sets supporting 120hz.

Many of the new-ish projectors also support it.

LCD & Plasma are starting to support - the difficulty has been image quality with less than 2ms response time - anyone with an old plasma (Panasonics were very bad) had phosphur trails.

spekkeh
04/06/09 @ 13:39
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Yeah but I was wondering why you'd need 120Hz, 3D films using polarized glasses have been made since the 30s, and surely these projectors weren't 120Hz.

But apparently it's hard to reconstruct on a television as some polarization is lost. Still I think it's a better system than shutterglasses. Well according to this article at least
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news...
Harmonica
05/06/09 @ 09:44
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I notice you didn't mention Cameron droning on for best part of twenty minutes at the EA briefing whilst everyone clawed their eyes out and wondered how the guy who created things like Terminator and Aliens was waffling on about a glorified fan fiction.
FireMonkey
05/06/09 @ 10:11
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I think this game uses the shutter glasses (hence the batteries). For shutter glasses, you display one image to one eye then the next to the other, so if you want a '60fps' game you actually need to be able to output your game at 120fps / Hz.

If this is on console, it's very unlikely that this game is going to be running at 120fps. Still quite unusual for 3D games to run at 60 tbh, so it's quite possible this demo was shown running at 30, which would have been 15fps for each eye which would partly explain the discomfort when watching it.
Xinch
10/06/09 @ 23:36
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Is that not the dropship from the starship troopers animated series?

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