1. Assess future trends & highlight likely
advances in PC technology. Discuss
how these advancers will be reflected
in the PC games of the future:
LATEST INNOVATION FUTURE PREDICTION
ALWAYS ONLINE
• constant high-speed internet access
INCREASED SPECS
• super-fast graphics processors
NEXT-GEN A.I.
• responsive / adaptive systems
HYPER-REAL PHYSICS
• accurate real-world simulation
- Graphics cards such as the Radeon R9 290X (with a GPU Engine Clock
Speed of 1000 MHz) and Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti are the top of the
list for best specifications.They give the best speed, quality and overall
performance and are made specifically for gaming.
- Future predictions for increased specs would include the improvement
of graphics processors therefore leading to more fluent gameplay and
largely improved computer graphics.
- New games such as Battlefield 4,Watchdogs and Call of duty Ghosts
incorporate new next generation technology allowing gamers to
experience new ways of gameplay and also play in a new and improved
system.
- Xbox Kinect, allows you to control the game/ character and control the
consoles system using body movement and speech.Which is done with a
sensor connected to the console.
- Newer more realistic playability and gameplay. For example soon to be
released game Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is a newly designed game
with completely newer feel. Its the start of even more next generation
gameplay.
- Games such as Sims, Second life and Animal Crossings are example of real
life simulation in games.They allow the player to create their own world,
this begins by designing there very own characters from scratch and
controlling their every move as well as design their own settings.
- A more advanced simulation would be Body tracking,The motion capture
method is often used to record the user’s movements and translate the
captured data into inputs for the virtual simulation.
- Further development on real life simulations.
- Human characteristics even more enhanced using both motion capture
and computer graphics.
- Physics modelling will be so advanced, a car crash in a game will be
indistinguishable from a real car crash.A Super marine Spitfire will fly
exactly as a Spitfire should, with all the moving parts simulated.
An example of a game that is in need of access to the internet to play it is
Titanfall. Utilising online gameplay as its main feature it is always online and
uses high speed internet access.
All future games will continue to be online.Access to the internet will
stay cheap and easy to access as well as being improved in the sense of
non lagging screens. More games will incorporate the use of multiplayer
or online gameplay as it becomes more popular.