“When we first made this work, it felt like magic”.
It’s almost remarkable to think that Rez is now over 20 years old – especially when you consider it has recently been used to showcase the PSVR2’s much-hyped eye-tracking technology. If you look at games that launched around the same time as Rez in 2001 – Luigi’s Mansion, Pikmin, Devil May Cry – then it’s striking just how utterly timeless its visuals are. Rez felt like a glimpse of the future back in the Dreamcast’s dying days, and given that it is still capable of captivating players with its presentation in 2023, it’s a future we clearly haven’t reached yet.
The merging of sound and light and the meaning behind it all perfectly synched in my head. I’d had a number of thoughts brewing for years. Something to do with the marriage of game and music, creating music as you shoot down enemies
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“When we first made this work, it felt like magic”.
It’s almost remarkable to think that Rez is now over 20 years old – especially when you consider it has recently been used to showcase the PSVR2’s much-hyped eye-tracking technology. If you look at games that launched around the same time as Rez in 2001 – Luigi’s Mansion, Pikmin, Devil May Cry – then it’s striking just how utterly timeless its visuals are. Rez felt like a glimpse of the future back in the Dreamcast’s dying days, and given that it is still capable of captivating players with its presentation in 2023, it’s a future we clearly haven’t reached yet.
The merging of sound and light and the meaning behind it all perfectly synched in my head. I’d had a number of thoughts brewing for years. Something to do with the marriage of game and music, creating music as you shoot down enemies
Read the full article on timeextension.com