The Official Twin Snakes Thread (screens inside)

[Dark Jaguar]

I wouldn't say the characters look plain, but I must agree with you that the environments looked plain. It was just nothing but yellowish big shell for most of the game, and it didn't change until later. Fortunatly that area looked pretty cool.

However, MGS had a much more diverse appearence overall. You went from a burning furnace to an icy tundra and such. If they added some jungle area somewhere, you'd have the 3 stereotypical video game regions! With that in mind, and the added power of the GCN, this should look like a good game. Let's just hope it doesn't end up looking like Eternal Darkness. That game looked "good enough" sure, and a few of the environments actually looked very nice indeed, but the characters just don't look nearly as good as the characters in MGS2. However, I wholy suspect Silicon Knights will indeed improove their skills and find all sorts of better techniques to really make this game shine.

Oh, and yes, cel-shading like that WOULD look great, but this game's style has already been decided with it's first release. Save this type of style for a later MG game.