Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 431 335. Everything Qing Zhiyuan said is true!

As soon as the E3 electronics show ended, pokeni began to strike while the iron was hot.

Relevant contracts had been negotiated with dealers in the Omi region in April, and the "Border" game had already become a small hit before it was released.

Throughout the next month of July, the streets and software stores in the United States will be filled with advertisements for Pokeni's "Border".

In fact, the advertising effect is not as strong as the exhibition and media coverage at E3.

At E3, the whole world saw the potential of pokeni, and also saw the performance of Nvidia's graphics cards.

Therefore, as soon as the media released relevant news, "Border" immediately became the center of attention.

As operational activities continue to deepen, more and more players have learned about this game.

"Wow, can today's games actually do this?"

At the door of the software store, there is a large "Border" poster.

Above is a sky dyed red with flames, and in the dense forest below, two hostile forces are fighting.

The pictures are not shot with real people, but with in-game model effects (relatively speaking, high-model models with more faces), but they are already quite realistic.

At a glance, I thought it was a real soldier holding a submachine gun and engaging in a fierce firefight.

If you take a closer look, you will realize that these guys are game models.

But just such a poster has surpassed all action-type games on the market today, leaving players in awe.

"No matter how you look at it, it's all fake, right? How is it possible to achieve this effect in the game?"

"Not necessarily. It is said that p company conducted a real-machine demonstration at the E3 electronics exhibition, and the effect was really similar to this. The model may be a little rough, but the scene effect is really quite good."

"Really? Is POKENI so powerful now?"

…

In fact, choosing the Oumi region as the main battlefield is a very wise choice. Neon has little enthusiasm for "Border" in China.

However, in the United States, players are very enthusiastic and full of expectations for the game.

The game hasn't even been released yet, but many people are already eager to try it.

Action games, especially gun shooting games, are very popular in the Omi region.

…

On August 15, 1997, "Border" was released on time.

Noel Cook is a junior student who now lives in California. He usually doesn’t have any hobbies. His biggest hobby is playing games.

On this day, he hurried to the software store, bought "Border", and hurried back to his student dormitory.

Although he is only in his 20s, Noel has been playing games for more than ten years, and he has been an avid fan of pokeni since a long time ago.

From "Diablo" to later "Ashes of Eternity" and most recently The Witcher 2, he has purchased and collected them all.

As early as a month ago, he went to the E3 electronics show held in Atlanta because he liked pokeni.

P Club once again conquered his heart with its extremely outstanding performance.

At the pre-exhibition press conference, Noel was so surprised when he saw the effect of "Border".

It's really scary that the game can reach this level.

For this reason, he has been working hard to earn money during this period, and has just replaced his computer with the latest NVIDIA GeForce256 graphics card.

It turned out that he was planning to buy a voodoo graphics card, but pokeni saved him and saved him a lot of money.

Switched directly to the most advanced GeForce.

After upgrading his computer, he suddenly found that Command and Conquer games, or Warcraft 2, which might have been a bit laggy before, now played very smoothly.

I've never had such a good gaming experience, it's like the whole world has been accelerated.

…

Now Noel lives with another classmate named Ross.

A college student dormitory is similar to an apartment. Two people share a room. Just like a bedroom at home, two people can decorate it according to their own preferences.

Ross is also a game fan.

It's just that I went to a party today, and I probably won't be back until tomorrow.

Rose is a tall boy with a high nose and big eyes. He is also very good at playing basketball, so he is very popular among girls.

In college alone, as far as Noel knew, Rose had had girlfriends on more than one football team.

But Noel thinks this is good. When Ross is away, he has the dormitory all to himself.

Do whatever you want.

Playing games doesn't interfere with Rose's sleep.

Noel felt extremely happy and happy when he thought that he could play all night tonight.

marvelous!

Ross, just enjoy your party and don't come back tonight.

…

Back in the dormitory, Noel Cook closed the door, opened the computer, unpacked the game, took out the CD and put it into the optical drive.

The total size of the game is 1.2G, which is a bit scary in this era.

But when he thought about the game graphics shown in "Border", Noel was relieved.

I even felt vaguely happy.

If a game cannot squeeze out the performance of the computer and graphics card, then wouldn’t it be in vain if I bought Nvidia’s GeForce256?

Of course, Qing Zhiyuan also knows this. When making games, it is based on the top configuration, because only in this way can players be driven to update and purchase Nvidia graphics cards.

In a sense, "Border" and NVIDIA's GPU are complementary, and they are indispensable for each other's success.

Without border outsourcing, Nvidia's graphics cards would not be selling so well.

After the 1.2G game installation was completed, it almost reached around 1.5G, almost filling Noel's entire hard drive.

In 1997, the hard drive capacity was generally about 2G, and some high-end computers could reach 4G, but if it exceeded 4G, it was not for civilian use.

It’s not that it doesn’t exist, but it’s not yet available to ordinary people.

After the installation is completed, a new icon appears on the computer desktop.

The icon is divided into black and white.

The white part is a side silhouette of a person wearing military uniform and holding a submachine gun. If you look closely at the other side, it is not difficult to see that it is a mirror image of a character holding a gun. It’s just that the positions of the two people holding the gun are different, so the picture A strange pattern formed in it.

The icon design of pokeni is really interesting.

Noel looked at it for a while and felt that this icon design had a certain meaning, but he couldn't understand it yet.

"Good, now it's time for me to enjoy the game."

For a child who grew up in the United States, especially in California, firearms and other things are simply commonplace things in life.

California's certification requirement is that you must be at least 21 years old. Noel only obtained a gun license last year and can now legally carry a gun.

When it comes to experiencing what it's like to shoot in the game, Noel has yet to have a particularly satisfying experience.

I hope POKENI will not disappoint me.

Noel holds the mouse in his right hand.

Double-click the game icon to enter the game.

The first thing that appears on the computer screen is the logo of the game production company:

POKENI

【Game is life】

【In the game, start a new life journey】

After that comes the name of the studio:

Gravitation Studio

Gravity Studio

This is also a newly built studio by Breivik among pokeni's American subsidiary. It is mainly responsible for the development of this shooting game, and will also undertake the development of other shooting action games in the future, such as after "The Matrix" It also needs to be handed over to this studio.

Noel Cook was in a daze.

Because he seemed to be used to the POKENI company's logo, or he had seen the logos of most major domestic game companies, but a relatively unfamiliar studio logo suddenly appeared, which made him a little uncomfortable.

To be honest, the icon of Gravity Studio is really ugly. It is a twisted-looking metal mask pattern stained black with ink.

This is also the first game developed by the studio.

Noel had never heard of the studio's name before.

He was originally looking forward to being produced by Neon Headquarters, Shinji Mikami or the recently popular Hidetaka Miyazaki. The United States seemed to have no experience in developing action games. The only one that could produce it before was "Ashes of Eternity"

However, Ashes of Eternity is a dice-throwing, turn-based game that has little to do with action games. It’s hard to see what Pokeni America’s development capabilities are in action games.

But it doesn't matter. Although it is not a game produced by Pokeni's Neon Headquarters, Noel, who has already understood the general appearance before, is still full of confidence in the game.

It doesn’t matter which studio made it, it’s the content that matters.

The screen went black at first, then quickly lit up.

Come to the main interface of the game.

The background image of the main interface is an island, and you can see the blue sky and blue sea in the distance.

Nearby were soldiers from two different countries, standing on the beach exchanging fire. Fire erupted from the muzzles of the guns, and the trajectory of the bullets was stretched across the screen.

Just seeing this main interface picture can't help but make people's blood boil.

On the right is a row of menu bar options:

【Campaign Mode】

【local area network】

【Wan】

【set up】

【Development List】

【CG】

Huh?

Noel Cook was stunned for a moment when he saw the local area network and the wide area network.

He suddenly remembered that during the demonstration session at the E3 Electronics Show, Qing Zhiyuan clearly stated that the game "Border" could be played online by multiple people at the same time.

How many people can it support at the same time?

20 people?

After thinking about it, Noel couldn't help but stick out his tongue.

It’s a bit awesome, the game Border.

But...he couldn't find so many people to play the multiplayer mode with him.

The LAN is definitely smoother. If it's a WAN, I don't know if the gaming experience can be guaranteed.

After careful research, Noel finally decided to play the campaign directly.

The campaign is a single-player mode, but it can also be played in two-player mode, but you need to build a host room and connect it through a LAN.

At this moment, Noel couldn't help but complain about Rose.

Although this guy usually spends a lot of time playing games, he is really good at playing games. It would be great if he didn't go fooling around with girls tonight.

How great is it now that two people can play games together?

Noel Cook shook his head, sighed, and clicked [Start New Game]

The screen went black, and a small combat map appeared.

In the 2D flat map, the terrain of the entire world is drawn.

The camera advanced to the middle, and then the screen framed to the largest continent in the middle that spanned two oceans.

Although the overall world map is somewhat similar to the real earth, it has still been significantly changed and distinguished.

This is an imaginary world.

[This is a real and illusory world]

[On this continent called Noster, there have been two opposing countries since ancient times, one is called the Republic of Balk and the other is called the Republic of Korien.

Because these two countries border each other and are close to each other, the war continues.

After entering the new century, with the development of human industry, thermal weapons were used on the battlefield.

Guns, artillery fire, and bombs caused more casualties.

War is no longer an era where individual size and strength determine the outcome. Even a short and thin guy can still kill a strong man who is much taller than himself by using a firearm.

Under such circumstances, war becomes simple and cruel.

This time, Balk and Corian are organizing armies to fight for the border. 】

The entire animation is extremely simple, but it gives people a particularly intense feeling. The whole process is demonstrated on a small map:

When Balk is played, a white circle outlines a piece of land on the map on the left. When Corian is explained, its territory and territory are outlined with red lines.

at last--

The camera advances to the intersection of the two countries.

The small, long and narrow border in the middle contains not only forests, valleys, but also a coastline adjacent to the southern sea.

Small blue arrows were pulled out from the Balk Republic on the left, and then converged into a huge blue arrow, pointing towards the border in the middle.

At the same time, corresponding to this, many small red arrows appeared on the right part of Corian, and the arrows converged into a large arrow, also pointing to the middle border.

Two large red and blue flags were suddenly thrust into the middle area.

Then a flame burned from the middle, as if a paper map was placed in the real world, and a candle was lightly tapped underneath.

The flames opened a big hole in the middle, and then spread quickly, covering the entire map.

Ashes burned and scattered from the screen...

Seeing this scene, Noel's fighting spirit was ignited.

Isn’t this too artistic?

I originally thought it was just a 2D map display, but the moment when the flames burned at the end was really exciting.

It is indeed a pokeni. Although it is an American pokeni, Noel has also felt its technical and design capabilities.

And for some reason, Noel didn't even see a decent character or war scene. Just staring at a few red and blue arrows, Noel had already made up many magnificent war scenes in his brain.

…

After the short video is finished playing,

Entered the first level task:

The game starts with the Republic of Korien.

The player takes on the role of a Corian soldier.

[You are a senior soldier of our army,

Sent on a secret mission.

In this village, Warner, a senior officer captured by our army, was imprisoned.

You must rescue him within the specified time, otherwise he may reveal our army's military secrets and cause terrible losses.

In order to complete the mission, you will do whatever it takes to defeat the enemies that stand in your way.

Fighting more bravely or fighting smarter depends on your personal choice. 】

…

After the subtitles ended, the map section of [Border] was shown separately in the screen (in fact, Pokeni only designed terrain the size of the border).

The conflict zone between the two countries is generally a long and narrow strip, but it is divided into several parts.

This time the mission started from the forest on the right side near Corian.

The camera advances and a flag is planted in the area.

The scene changed to a place outside a village. There were piles of stones on the roadside and some hills with graves nearby.

In the distance is a large wheat field.

The surrounding trees were withered, as if they were giant hands reaching out to grab something in the sky.

The hero is hiding behind a big tree, wearing Corian's unique military uniform.

The military uniform is a light-colored military uniform that fits the character's body, except that the head is not visible. His cuffs are rolled up, revealing two strong arms.

This is a standard first-person perspective game, with the camera just above the neck, and all the player's actions are observed through this camera.

To simulate the perspective of people in the real world.

Although pokeni is not the first to do a first-person perspective, it is the one that gives Noel the best feeling so far.

Next, the game enters the teaching part.

The teaching content is very simple.

First, teach walking, climbing, jumping, and squatting.

After learning how to jump, Noel started walking and pressing the space bar on his own.

That is the effect of running and jumping in the picture.

Even if you don't press the space bar, you always feel that something is missing.

…

sure.

Noel Cook was quite surprised by the graphics of the game.

He originally thought that this game would be a very rough version of the game produced by a small workshop, but after coming in, he found that the details of the game's graphics were quite good.

In 3D mode, various lighting and shadows, as well as the models and materials of the big trees around you are all very realistic, and the shapes and movements of the characters have also reached an amazing level.

Sure enough, everything Qing Zhiyuan said was true.

The scenery in the game and the objects in the scene are no longer the rigid photo mode that was common in the past, but models and maps with textures and very good details.

And this time pokeni is no longer using static light effects, but dynamic light, which is generated by real-time calculation, but it is still in a relatively early stage.

Even if it does not reach the light chasing effect of the previous life around 2020, the current dynamic light is enough to amaze Noel.

The expression gives people a natural feeling.

Although the tree trunk still has some rough outlines if you look closely, it is already done quite well.

This is probably the best 3D game Noel has played in recent years, bar none.

It seems that buying an NVIDIA graphics card is a very wise decision.

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There is another chapter in the afternoon