Real Game Characters ‘Next Year’

Super-realistic computer games which will feature human faces as they actually look are at most two years away, developers have told the BBC. At present, developers have not been able to create games characters with photo-realistic faces and expressions.

For developers, this trend towards super-real characters - together with a growing feeling that better writing and acting within games is essential - will bring together a new dimension of emotion to gaming.

“We will be able to play with people’s emotions - we can make them laugh, we can make them cry, we can make them sad,” said Ian Livingstone of Eidos, which made the highly-successful Tomb Raider series of games. “Therefore, elements of Hollywood have been drawn into making the next generation of consoles.”

BBC