Pokemon Diamond and Pearl (extensive preview/review)

[Pilot_51]

Most real previews are done with an early copy of the game provided by Nintendo to game media companies or by trying out the game at an event such as E3. There are laws with grabbing content from other sources, some require permission and the rest require at least credit. Using a source for the info and then turning it into your own words isn't a problem and I think would make an acceptable preview for someone that can't get access to the game. If you mostly just put together content from outside sources, I think a more appropriate name for the article type would be something like "preview compilation", just to be clear that bulk of the work was done by other people, but usually it's just better to link to them if that's the case.

[bignds]

Er, we cant get earlier copies of games, so this will do for the mean time.

[fischju]

Originally Posted by Pilot_51

It's 2D. I thought after all this time you'd be able to recognize the difference between pixel art and polygon renders. I'm sure the GBA could run that just fine, especially considering how even the early games looked better (THPS2) and how far they've gone (all those FPS's). GBC is stretching it but I think it could at least display similar graphics.

i know bump, but i just saw the other pics

im going out there and saying the buildings are 3D. I just got the latest gba pokemon game and im telling you this is 3D.



Look at the blue building, you can see the side and its slightly jagged. in all the pokemon games i've seen you only see the front. also, look at the sign in the lower right hand corner, its tilted.





in this pic you can, again, see the sides of the building how they should appear. also, the (pokemart?) building in the bottom left corner has jagged tops, not found in a 2D game and finally...



a quote from the website - http://translate.google.com/translat...language_tools

"With the “diamond pearl” field and the rows of buildings in town are expressed three-dimensionaly!"

[Mario Famous]

It does look 3D in a way.

[fischju]

it is 3D....did you read the last line? it looks kinda like animal crossing except not round

[Pilot_51]

Interesting, that's gotta be some of the most 2D looking 3D graphics I've seen, I guess they didn't want to improve it very much (as usual). The characters definitely look 2D, you gonna tell me they're also 3D. Maybe if I saw it in motion I could tell better, gotta have some perspective to get the real feel of the dimensions, especially now that they made 2D and 3D look very much the same (when not moving around).

[V1P3R]

Pokemon Diamond/Pearl Footage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V785FfR7CmA

Source: http://ds.qj.net/