Back in 2009 – some eight years ago – French developer Microïds announced that they were working on pulling their popular graphical adventure series Syberia into a real-time 3D world and that the new game – Syberia 3 – was set to launch in 2010 for PlayStation 3 and PC. After being stuck in what appears to have been some sort of contractual and development hell, Benoît Sokal’s game has finally staggered across the finish line here in 2017.
It was always going to be a bit of a challenge to bring Sokal’s beautiful artwork into the 3D space, but it would have been hard to imagine how it could have been carried off any worse than this. Lead character Kate Walker shuffles unconvincingly through a game engine that constantly wheezes and groans as if it was running on a system that doesn’t have the power to keep up with it.
That clearly isn’t the case though,...
It was always going to be a bit of a challenge to bring Sokal’s beautiful artwork into the 3D space, but it would have been hard to imagine how it could have been carried off any worse than this. Lead character Kate Walker shuffles unconvincingly through a game engine that constantly wheezes and groans as if it was running on a system that doesn’t have the power to keep up with it.
That clearly isn’t the case though,...
- 4/28/2017
- by Ken Barnes
- We Got This Covered
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