Far Cry had a really long view distance as well, but I don't know about 22 kilometres. The backgrounds in halo 3 are amazing, that's for sure. I was sure they were prerendered the first time I saw them but the game actually rendered mountains, deserts etc.
How did they come to this conclusion? In the game Sarge points at a non-interactive background and says "Chief, that's where Cortana is being held. It's 22 kilometers away." as opposed to Goldeneye where Natasha points at a non-interactive background and says "That mountain is 21 kilometers away"?
Because I can pretty much assure you that there is not a single level in Halo3 that is 14 miles long. I doubt every level in the game put together is even half that long.
Although if we're talking about non-interactive backgrounds and implied distances as having any relation to "draw-distance" then I'm pretty sure even games like Doom had a backdrop of Earth from Mars, which is substantially further adistance than a mere 14 miles. Or to get even crazier, I'm sure there are games that date back to the late 70s to early 80s that had you flying in space where the stars in the background could be an implied distance of "light-years" away........
How did they come to this conclusion? In the game Sarge points at a non-interactive background and says "Chief, that's where Cortana is being held. It's 22 kilometers away." as opposed to Goldeneye where Natasha points at a non-interactive background and says "That mountain is 21 kilometers away"?
Because I can pretty much assure you that there is not a single level in Halo3 that is 14 miles long. I doubt every level in the game put together is even half that long.
Although if we're talking about non-interactive and implied backgrounds as having any relation to "draw-distance" then I'm pretty sure even games like Doom had a backdrop of Earth from Mars, which is substantially a further distance than a mere 14 miles. Or to get even crazier, I'm sure there are games that date back to the late 70s to early 80s that had you flying in space where the stars in the background could be"light-years" away........
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Exactly, it's not like draw distance is a meaningful measure of...anything really. An object that doesn't move reletive to your view can be considered an 'infinite' distance away mathematically assuming that you reneder it behind everything.
Were you able to travel to those locations as you pleased or were they just rendered to look as if they were that far away? I'm pretty sure Crysis has the longest draw distances.
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