Walls
Gauntlet, Arcade, 1985
Just look at those walls. They don’t make them like that anymore. Mainly because it was possible to get stuck in a room with no way out.
Hero Quest, C64, 1991
The isometric 3D would look really good if the shadows were right. Sadly, the room looks inverted. How badly did we need true 3D?
Doom, PC, 1993
Doom’s walls were so convincing, players would continually move their heads to peer around corners. Feel free to laugh.
BloodRayne, PS2/PC/Xbox, 2002
Almost any last-gen action game would do here, but BloodRayne gets a mention, if only because blood wood stick to the walls.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, PC/360/PS3, 2007
These walls are amazing. Not only do they utilize ‘normal mapping’ to create a false impression of depth, but you can shoot through them too. Break the fourth wall... and the fifth. And the sixth...
"Even Baldur's Gate 3 became so good because of Early Access," which is why the Dead Cells devs are using the same trick for their roguelike Prince of Persia
Oh, that's why the Stellar Blade devs were terrified by demo players: one fan's spent "about 60 hours" maxing Eve's skill tree before the action RPG is even out
