They did have people dress as the fighters and do poses and then took photos of them and turned these photos into sprites.
So the game was photorealistic (that is within the technological boundaries of the platforms the game ran on).
I'd love to see a 2D Mortal Kombat with the original photos taken from what we may consider the OG Mortal Kombat cosplayers.
It still is in my head... Didn't they use real photos/video for the animation?
I think it was the first use of motion capture in a video game.
It made Street Fighter look so cartoony and childish by comparison.
I remember Altered Beast having amazing graphics, but it was just memory goggles. I was very disappointed when I got around to firing it up in an emulator.
Same, basically every game I played as a kid has awful graphics compared to modern stuff
Primal Rage too for me. "Stop motion animation? In a game? This is the height of technology!"
Heh I thought the same with Max Payne. (the first one)
5 year old me thought it looked photorealistic.
That was Mortal Kombat when I was 15
But mortal Kombat WAS photorealistic (in my head)
They did have people dress as the fighters and do poses and then took photos of them and turned these photos into sprites.
So the game was photorealistic (that is within the technological boundaries of the platforms the game ran on).
I'd love to see a 2D Mortal Kombat with the original photos taken from what we may consider the OG Mortal Kombat cosplayers.
It still is in my head... Didn't they use real photos/video for the animation?
I think it was the first use of motion capture in a video game.
It made Street Fighter look so cartoony and childish by comparison.
I remember Altered Beast having amazing graphics, but it was just memory goggles. I was very disappointed when I got around to firing it up in an emulator.
Same, basically every game I played as a kid has awful graphics compared to modern stuff
Primal Rage too for me. "Stop motion animation? In a game? This is the height of technology!"
Heh I thought the same with Max Payne. (the first one)