Meanwhile, 3D looks good enough now that there are plenty of advantages to using polygons over sprites in a 2D game. Hardware has come so far that it's often easier to just render in 3D than try to cheat a 3D look with 2D techniques, so even games that are going for a retro look often just use real 3D. Whereas these days, the first definition is more common. The latter was less common because if you were doing 2D gameplay, going with polygonal 3D graphics was in many ways just a limitation. Doom is the classic example, but you also had stuff like Mode 7 games on the SNES like F-Zero and Pilotwings, and arcade games like Space Harrier and Out Run.
Since hardware still struggled with 3D rendering, faking the look with clever stretching and scaling often ran better. I think the latter definition was more common before the 2000s.
It can either mean a game with 2D gameplay (usually a sidescroller) that's rendered in 3D, or a game that uses 2D rendering techniques to kind of cheat a 3D look and gameplay. The city map has stairs / ramps / vertical elements in it, even if they aren’t really relevant to gameplay. It uses 2D sprites, but tons of 3D games use 2D sprites. I would call Octopath Traveler a 3D game. I don’t think the 2.5D / 3D distinction is all that important to games like Octopath Traveler. For example, back in the 1990s, you could find gaming magazines that called Doom 2.5D. Is there any 3D gameplay? Like, does being higher or lower make any kind of difference to the game?Ī bit of history-there is an older usage of 2.5D which applied to games that mixed sprites with 3D environments, or had limited 3D environments. The map is 3D, the player moves on all three axes. It’s not a great definition, it has its flaws, but it’s kind of workable. RevaniteAnime’s answer is good, but I do think there is one definition which is the most common.Ī 2.5D game has 2D gameplay and 3D graphics.īasically, you could use 2D graphics to make the same game, but you chose to use 3D graphics instead. Would that be considered a 2.5D game in your opinion? It is pretty similar to Octopath Traveler, but the perspective is different and the Models feel a bit more 3D than the ones in Octopath Traveler The NPCs and Players and some other Props are 2D Sprites. Most Props and Buildings are 3D models, with pixel art textures. The view is angled top down, camera is in perspective mode and always following the player. Would you consider Octopath traveller a 2.5D game? League of Legends? What do you actually consider to be a 2.5D game? Some sources claim that a 2.5D game, at least an older definition, might be just the mixture of 2D and 3D elements.
Other sources claim that it is simply a game that has a fixed camera perspective in which the Player can move in a 3 dimensional way, contrary to the other sources. Some sources say that it is a game with 3D graphics fixed to a 2D plane of movement, or pseudo 3D. Now I have been starting to research about 2.5D and get very mixed results. Our profs have mentioned 2.5D from the beginning and since I thought they know more than me, I adapted this thought of the game being 2.5D. We have to write a research paper and my topic is about 2.5D games, since I have assumed that the game we are currently working on is one. Hello gamedev community! I'm new here and I am a student, currently working on my second game.
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