It also might be just be a matter of graphics resources. While the scans do look very nicely done, they do put me in mind of the various Quake 3 Skins. Some of them are quite sophisticated, but it's all surface level. While I'm sure the overall animations of the races will look lovely as well, anyone who has seen the film Monsters Inc can get a sense of the computational power needed to do fur graphics properly. Not doing furred aliens might have just simply been a decision of the application of available resources within the game structure. I will miss the monsters though....bribing the space dragon was always a neat trick, and they reminded me pleasantly of all the old monster-of-the-Week TV series.
It also might be just be a matter of graphics resources. While the scans do look very nicely done, they do put me in mind of the various Quake 3 Skins. Some of them are quite sophisticated, but it's all surface level. While I'm sure the overall animations of the races will look lovely as well, anyone who has seen the film Monsters Inc can get a sense of the computational power needed to do fur graphics properly. Not doing furred aliens might have just simply been a decision of the application of available resources within the game structure. I will miss the monsters though....bribing the space dragon was always a neat trick, and they reminded me pleasantly of all the old monster-of-the-Week TV series.