aesthetically pleasing != technically advanced It's all about how you use your tools at hand, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp6DjATqEzg https://www.youtube.c

aesthetically pleasing != technically advanced It's all about how you use your tools at hand, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp6DjATqEzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp6DjATqEzg preferably enjoyed with surround speakers on high volume. Today the graphics looks like a joke and even for it's time this graphics was considered mediocre, the gameplay is actually quite boring and the artwork isn't the greatest either. But even today, and by just watching, the immersion is so intense and the tension is still there. I remember when we first played this as kids my heart rate was at max for hours afterwards, everybody at school just kept talking about how incredible this game was and that it was just like playing in the saving private ryan movie. Today you could surely improve the immersion in this scene tenfold but do you really need to? What makes this scene is the intense ambient sounds, the camera shaking effects and the overall feeling of pressure, nothing that requires any new graphics technology. The article also brings this up with the discussion of artwork in sims 2d looking better than the 3d equivalent.