Is Tekken Tag Tournament the most impressive looking console game of 2000?

Well, if you don't mind interlaced image. People who prefer image clarity above else would prefer Dead or Alive 2 on VGA cable equpped Dreamcast for glorious proggressive video output.

Tekken on the other hand boasts some crazy polygon count (~2 mil per second), much more detailed textures and very impressive lighting effects, including specular and reflections. I mean it fakes per pixel lighting and bump maps, the things that were popularized by Doom 3 four years later, so well that I am not sure if it's really fake anymore. Those are really noticeable on some floors. Or those are not bump maps but actually raw polygons? Either way, it looks fantastic for a 2000 PS2 game. Even 2005 Tekken 5 lacks this kind of lighting effects and polygon count per character. All it has is that awful bloom that every 2005-2008 game had.

Do you even picture or YouTube video bro?

That console generation Tecmo made some of the best looking games anyone has ever seen.

I don't know, but fighters were never great showcases of graphics for me. All they have to focus on are the characters, everything else doesn't even have to look good. Virtua Fighter 2 Saturn divided the two characters onto the two CPUs.

I find the virtual worlds generated by racing, story, and adventure games much more impressive. On that note, Gran Turismo 3 of the same year looked absolutely fantastic and better than any racer of the era.

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Originally Posted by Blades

On that note, Gran Turismo 3 of the same year looked absolutely fantastic and better than any racer of the era.

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That was delayed to 2001. Perhaps Ridge Racer V.

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Originally Posted by Yharnamresident

That was delayed to 2001. Perhaps Ridge Racer V.

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True, but in 2001 Silent Hill 2 was also released. Hard to beat that.

Silent Hill 2 was very lackluster. I don't know why people love it. On the graphics front, everything is fogged in.

I'll be the one to post it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bT6nBFXDPk

Yes it is quite graphically impressive, I think I see light sourcing at 5:50.

Dead or Alive 2 also operates at 2 million polys per second, including the Dreamcast version. But I think this game definitely has better lighting which is a PS2 strength.

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Originally Posted by Orchid87

Or those are not bump maps but actually raw polygons?

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I doubt it, you wouldn't see stuff like that until Bloodborne/Witcher 3.

http://hcgameshop.com/wp-content/upl...oodborne-2.jpg

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Originally Posted by Yharnamresident

Dead or Alive 2 also operates at 2 million polys per second, including the Dreamcast version. But I think this game definitely has better lighting which is a PS2 strength.

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DoA2 was an evolution of VF3 "true next gen fighting game with fully interactive locations" gameplay, but alas it's a DoA game. I wish we had another Dreamcast VF game with similar approach to gameplay. VF4 is good and all but it's a step back IMO.

IIRC Tekken Tag Tournament was bashed because it didn't play like a next gen title, but was like Tekken 3 with next gen graphics. Still the graphics were above competition.

It does look nice, but when I look closely to me it looks more like a beefed up PS1 Tekken 3. You can see a lot of the same graphical tricks going on. For example in the video posted above you can see a clear divide where the floor stops being 3D and becomes a 2D Background image. Yes it's better than it looked in Tekken 3 on the PS1, it's still a bit disappointing. I think Dead or Alive 2 might be a bit more impressive in this sense since it appears to be rendering more with it's backgrounds.

This is why TTT recieved less than perfect scores at the release. Bear in mind though, that despite Tekken has non-interactive "wallpaper" backgrounds, those are still fully polygonal and have as much detail as DoA2 backgrounds and some specular and bump textures as well, which DoA2 lack. DoA2 praised because you could interact with its backgrounds and they were multi-tier and partly destroyable. Those were the real next gen features.

Along with JSR and Code Veronica perhaps.

I agree with all the points about Tekken Tag being a pimped up version of its prequel, like a Tekken 3.5 perhaps; but it knocked my socks off in terms of graphics, it still looks good now.

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Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118

It does look nice, but when I look closely to me it looks more like a beefed up PS1 Tekken 3. You can see a lot of the same graphical tricks going on. For example in the video posted above you can see a clear divide where the floor stops being 3D and becomes a 2D Background image. Yes it's better than it looked in Tekken 3 on the PS1, it's still a bit disappointing. I think Dead or Alive 2 might be a bit more impressive in this sense since it appears to be rendering more with it's backgrounds.

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With that TTT video, its hard to tell whats billboard backgrounds vs real polygons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97OiDTzg_rQ

Honestly the games are very similar in polygon counts and graphical impressiveness, but I think Dead or Alive 2 takes the win because of G-cup boobs.

It's pretty obvious if you know what to look for. Look at the floor as it goes to the distance. You'll see a clear divide where it scrolls at at different speed than what's above it. That's where things stop being 3D and become 2D. If you look at things beyond that point it's pretty hard to not notice what's 2D.