Up to 100 puzzles and traps combining physics, hydraulic systems, arrows, fire, stone balls.Up to 25 different races of enemies: orks, trolls, golems, demons, skeletons.Up to 100 different weapons: sword, axes, spears, bows, shields, magic weapons.Playing Character progression depending on your abilities.Four characters to choose from, each one with specific skills.More than 16 different realistic outdoor/indoor environments: frozen landscape, desert, Arabic Palaces, Hindu Temples, volcanos, Lost Island, mines.New portal engine allows real time lighting, volumetric lights and shadows.What the Blade Engine is capable of: (They were really underselling these features as noted) Anyone running a Voodoo or even a Nvidia TNT2 could have this kind of visual fidelity, which would only catch on when shaders became apparent. It did all this on DX7 hardware and lower, like Seed. Severance delivered Doom 3 style stencil shadows, marred with an at times amazing lightmap system, and it also had realistic particles and reflective water. Released in early 2001, but developed from 1996-2000, Severance preceded most modern gaming visuals by multiple years. (There are better pics but they are from sites that go against the TOS so i don't link them here.)ĭeveloped by Rebel Act Studios, Severance ended up doing most of what Seed was trying to do, and more. For years i thought that this was the only game pushing this kind of visuals years before shaders became apparent, but last week i discovered Severance: Blade of Darkness/Blade: Edge of Darkness. Sadly, The game never got past the release stage and only a demo exists.

It was developed from 1998-2000.Īn example: (There is a video that illustrates it better but i have to adhere to the MEDIA limit here for videos) Seed managed to push Doom 3 style stencil shadows and dynamic colored lighting and have your body physically appear in the game world, but instead of relying on shaders, Seed could run this stuff on software or bock standard hardware of the time (Voodoo 2, Matrox G400, and so on). The most eye-catching thing was its visual fidelity. This was an to be released platformer/first person shooter that would do for FPS what Mario 64 did for platforming in a 3D world. On a few occassions, i have made remarks about Seed.

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