LARA CROFT A MATCH
FOR ANGELINA JOLIE
Copyright 2006 www.tombraiderchronicles.com
[ September 4th 2006 ]
Sony
UK's Ray Maguire has used a promotional event
in London to argue that superior eye candy made
possible by advances in next-gen consoles is no
longer a top priority for game developers.
"We are
no longer interested in graphics per se, because
graphics chips can do that for us, but the central
processors of all the new games machines are about
making games more compelling by adding in artificial
intelligence," he said.
Maguire
illustrated his point by comparing video-game
heroine Lara
Croft to her human motion-picture
counterpart, Angelina Jolie, stating the main
difference was that Angelina
Jolie was capable of emotions and visible
thought.
Focusing
on AI, developers are able to add more realism
to computer generated characters. "The Cell chip
is so powerful it can do 256 million calculations
per second. That means one thing for us in the
videogames industry: artificial intelligence."
Thanks
to PS3
Land for the heads up.
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