Chapter 431 335 Qing Zhiyuan Said Everything Is True!

Chapter 431 335. What Qing Zhiyuan said is true!

As soon as the E3 Electronics Show ended, Pokeni began to strike while the iron was hot.

In April, the relevant contracts had been negotiated with distributors in Europe and the United States. The game "Border" had already become a small hit before it was released.

In the whole of July, the streets and software stores in the United States were full of advertisements for Pokeni's "Border".

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

At E3, the world saw the potential of Pokeni and the effect of NVIDIA's graphics card.

So as soon as the media released the relevant news, "Border" immediately became the focus of everyone's attention.

As the operation activities continued to deepen, more and more players also learned about this game.

"Wow, can the current game reach this level?"

At the door of the software store, a large poster of "Border" was posted.

Above was a piece of fire rising to the sky, dyed red, and in the dense forest below, two hostile troops were exchanging fire.

The images were not shot with real people, but with in-game models (relatively speaking, the models have more high-poly models), 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 fight.

Only after a closer look did I realize that these guys were all game models.

But such a poster has surpassed all the action games on the market, which amazed the players.

"It looks fake, right? How can such an effect be achieved in the game?"

"Not necessarily. It is said that P-Society has conducted a real machine demonstration at the E3 Electronics Show, and the effect is really similar to this. The model may be a little rough, but the scene effect is really quite good."

"Is it true? Is POKENI so powerful now?"

...

In fact, choosing the European and American regions as the main battlefield is a very wise choice. Neon China has no enthusiasm for "Border".

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

Before the game is released, many people have already started to be eager to try it.

Action games, especially gun shooting games, are very popular in Europe and the United States.

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

Noel Cook is a junior student who now lives in California. He doesn't have any hobbies, and his biggest hobby is playing games.

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

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

From "Diablo" to the later "Eternal Scar of Ashes", and the recent Demon Hunter 2, he has bought and collected them well.

As early as a month ago, he went to participate in the E3 Electronics Show held in Atlanta because he liked Pokeni.

Paradox once again conquered his heart with its excellent performance.

At the pre-show press conference, Noel was surprised to see the effect of "Border".

It is really terrible that the game can be done to this level.

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

Originally, he was planning to buy a Voodoo graphics card. Pokeni saved him and saved him a lot of money.

He directly changed to the most advanced GeForce.

After upgrading his computer, he suddenly found that the Command and Conquer game or Warcraft 2, which might have been a little laggy before, are now very smooth to play.

He has never had such a good gaming experience, as if the whole world has been accelerated.

…

Now Noel lives with another classmate named Rose.

College dormitories are similar to apartments, with two people in one room, just like the bedroom in your own home, and two people can decorate it according to their own preferences.

Rose is also a game fan.

But he went to a party today and probably won't be back until tomorrow.

Rose is a tall boy with a high nose bridge and big eyes, and he is very popular with girls because of his superb basketball skills.

During college alone, as far as Noel knows, Rose has changed girlfriends for more than one football team.

But Noel thought it was good. When Ross was not around, the dormitory was his.

He could do whatever he wanted.

Playing games would not affect Ross's sleep.

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

Great!

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

…

Back in the dormitory, Noel Cook closed the door, turned on the computer, unpacked the game, took out the CD and put it into the CD-ROM drive.

The total size of the game was 1.2G, which was 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 among them.

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 "The Matrix". After that, it will be handed over to this studio.

Noel Cook was in a daze.

Because he seemed to be used to the logo of POKENI, 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 turn-based dice-throwing game, which has little to do with action games. It is difficult to see how capable Pokeni America is in developing 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 multiplayer mode with him.

The LAN is definitely smoother, but 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 with two players, but you need to build a host room and connect it through the local area network.

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

Although this guy usually plays a little bit, he is a good gamer. It would be great if he didn't go out with girls tonight.

How nice it would be to play games with two people now?

Noel Cook shook his head, sighed, and clicked [Start a new game]

The screen went black and a small battle map appeared.

The terrain of the entire world was drawn in the 2D flat map.

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

Although the overall world map is a bit similar to the real earth, it has made very obvious changes and distinctions.

This is an imaginary world.

[This is a real and illusory world]

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

The two countries border each other and are close to each other, so the war continues.

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

Guns, artillery fire, and bombs have caused more casualties.

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

In this case, the war becomes simple and cruel.

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

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

When Balk is played, a piece of land is circled on the left map with a white line, and when Corian is explained, its territory and territory are depicted with a red line.

Finally-

The camera moves to the intersection of the two countries.

The small and narrow border in the middle has not only forests and 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 gathered into a huge blue arrow, pointing to the border in the middle.

At the same time, correspondingly, many small red arrows appeared in the right part of Corian, and the arrows gathered into a large arrow, also pointing to the border in the middle.

Two red and blue flags were inserted into the middle area.

Then a ball of fire burned from the middle, just like putting a paper map in the real world, and the bottom was lightly tapped with a candle.

The flame burned a big hole in the middle, and then spread rapidly, covering the entire map.

Ashes burned and scattered from the screen...

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

This is too artistic, right?

I thought it was just a 2D map display, but the last flame burning was really exciting.

It is worthy of being a pokeni. Although it is a pokeni from the United States, Noel has already felt its technical and design capabilities.

And for some reason, even though he didn't see any decent characters or war scenes, just by staring at a few red and blue arrows, Noel had already imagined many magnificent war scenes in his mind.

...

After the short film was played,

the first level mission was entered:

The game starts from the Republic of Corian.

The player plays a soldier of Corian.

[You are a senior soldier of our army,

sent on a secret mission.

In this village, there is a captured senior officer of our army, Werner.

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

In order to complete the mission, you will solve the obstructing enemies at all costs.

A more courageous way of fighting, or a smarter way of fighting, depends on your personal choice. 】

…

After the subtitles, the map section of [Border] was picked out separately in the screen (in fact, Pokeni only designed the terrain 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 mission starts from the right forest near Corin.

The camera moves forward, and a flag is planted in the area.

The screen turns to a village outside, with stones piled on the roadside and some small hills with graves nearby.

In the distance is a large wheat field.

The trees around are withered, as if giant hands are stretched out, grabbing something towards the sky.

The male protagonist hides behind a big tree, wearing Corin's unique military uniform.

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

This is a standard first-person perspective game. The camera is 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 the first-person perspective, it is the best experience for Noel so far.

Next, the game entered the teaching part.

The teaching content is very simple.

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

After learning to jump, Noel has already started to press the space bar while walking without any instruction.

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.

…

It’s OK.

Noel Cook was quite surprised by the game’s visuals.

He originally thought that this game would be a game version with a particularly rough model produced by a small workshop, but after entering, he found that the game’s visual details were quite in place.

In 3D mode, various lighting and shadows, as well as the models and materials of the big trees around him are all very realistic, and the character’s modeling and movements have reached an amazing level.

Sure enough, everything Qing Zhiyuan said was true.

Whether it is the scenery in the game or the objects in the scene, they are no longer the rigid photo mode that was common in the past, but have textures, and the models and maps with quite good details.

And this time, Pokeni no longer uses 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 has not reached the ray tracing effect of around 2020 in the previous life, the current dynamic light is enough to amaze Noel.

It gives people a natural feeling when it is displayed.

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

This is probably the best 3D game Noel has played in recent years, no one else.

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

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There is another chapter in the afternoon