If there was a graphics upgrade, the platforms I think would be affected most by it would be the airborne platforms. I recently got into SHIV, and it's a really beautiful simulation. I think it has some advantages over DW, though, that made it a lot easier to make it beautiful. The most important of them was that SHIV is a lot less ambitious in terms of scope. It only dealt with WWII in the Pacific theatre. To do a similar thing with a modern simulation, they'd have to do something like limit it to just one hypothetical future conflict, such as China-Taiwan, Iran, or maybe a resurgent Russia. Another route would be to choose the time period to be in the 1984-92 range and then just do the big US v. Soviet shoot out that never happened in just one theatre the North Atlantic, say.
That makes everything a lot more tightly defined. One can make a simple list of platforms for the graphics artists to work their way through. It's also obvious that they reused a lot of the graphics in SHIV from previous simulations. Like, the US naval officers hats are wrong because they used the old German officers for them. Being able to leverage off of previous graphics intensive sims is a big step.
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Originally Posted by Driftwood
Don't believe we will ever see the "ultimate" naval sim........at least not a civilian version of one. It's been years since I've played it but Harpoon seems to me to be the only sim that might fit into that category at least from the perspective of being a naval strategy sim where you command fleets and not singular platforms. DW is at the top of the "individual platform" list. And even though I know that the eye candy isn't what the sim is all about it still would be nice to marry up the graphics of SHIV with DW. At least for the those times I'm leaving port and just before I dive.  |