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 Best Graphics (Artistic) on PlayStation 2 Though the technical elements of a game's graphics are extremely important, the artistic quality of the game's visual design is what finally leaves a lasting impression on the player. Game graphics technology continues to improve drastically every year, thus lending artists an increasingly effective medium for realizing their artistic concepts in their games. Here is the winner of the Best Graphics (Artistic) on PlayStation 2:
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When you remove the stylistic nature of Rez's design, you're left with a fairly basic shooter that follows in the footsteps of Sega's Space Harrier or Panzer Dragoon games. Rez is short, and it's not terribly challenging, but toss the game's quirky, cyberpunk style back in and it transcends its run-of-the-mill gameplay and is suddenly propelled into an entirely new category. You might finish it in one sitting, but it's difficult to deny that Rez is work of art first and a game second.Much like the movie Tron, Rez takes place inside a computer system. At first, everything you encounter is composed of simple, unfilled shapes made only from straight lines, giving everything a vector-graphics-like look. As you progress, though, you encounter more complex geometry, eventually flying through huge structures and fighting a menagerie of gigantic bosses. The fast pacing of the game and the way its visuals are tied to its audio complete this impressively immersive package. 2002 is a year that has seen plenty of highly stylized games, but none go to the lengths that Rez does when it comes to playing off a certain sense of style. Form over function has never felt so good.
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