A Refreshing Take On Retro RPG Pixel Art Like the original Star Ocean: The Second Story, SOSSR features a 2.5D art style that superimposes pixel sprites onto pre-rendered 3D backgrounds.

W hen you’ve played video games long enough, you eventually develop something of a “Spidey Sense” when you see a game that ...

The most obvious change is the art style: this is a 2.5D platformer and character sprites have been replaced by full 3D polygonal models. The world itself is 2.5D too, though you'll still be ...

Neon Blood has been been created using stunning 2.5D visuals, based on the use of 2D sprites in pixel art with 3D-modelled environments, maintaining an aesthetic differentiation between the 2D ...

AFAIK, 2.5D means 3D environments and 2D sprites (Doom 1, Marathon, etc.)<BR><BR>Don't know about the first true 3D game. Descent is the first one I remember.

Here’s a fun little timewaster, if you need to kill five minutes this afternoon. The sprites from Super Mario Bros., hacked into a “two-and-a-half-dimension” engine that lets you adjust the ...