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Heavy specularity

Other (objects, etc.) theme

Heavily uses graphics effects that gives almost everything a glossy, plastic appearance. Usually from overuse of certain kinds of specular lighting or bump mapping. Especially if there's complete lack of matte surfaces.

19
games
7
platforms

Alternate names: Glossy, Plastic

Quake 4 (Windows)
Quake 4
WIN 2005-10-18
Doom 3 (Xbox)
Doom 3
XBOX 2005-04-03
Doom 3 (Windows)
Doom 3
WIN 2004-08-03
Quake 4 (Xbox 360)
Quake 4
X360 2005-11
Operation: Matriarchy (Windows)
Operation: Matriarchy
WIN 2005-08-25
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (Windows)
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
WIN 2005-04-03
dhewm3 d3xp
LIN 2015
Quake 4
OSX 2006-04-05
dhewm3 doom3
LIN 2015
XEmeraldia
LIN 2000
dhewm3 doom3
BSD 2015-11-09
Doom 3
OSX 2005
See also: wet & slimy
Possibly caused by overuse of specular lighting, bump mapping or similar graphics effects that became possible with DirectX 8-9 (OpenGL had it since 1.1).

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Parent group

Visuals

Games by year

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The first Heavy specularity video game was released in 2000.

id Software and Activision published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 8
Windows 4
BSD 2
Mac OS X 2
X360 1
Android 1
Xbox 1

Most common companies

id Software4
Activision3