Water Effects in Video Games

[Epyon MX]

The German website PCGamesHardware has a gallery up of water effects through the years. Pretty amazing stuff:

Flight Simulator - 1982


Crysis - 2007


We come a long way, baby.

Full slideshow.

[namehater]

cool find, i remember when farcry came it so amazing!

[Wondermonkey]

Other than the black and white vs. color, I don't really see a difference.

[Quo]

Yeah, there's doing a great job with water effects. They've gotten good enough at it now that the bottleneck isn't on the water-- it's on the land. I wish they'd spend more time making terrain look realistic now. To me, that's what looks blocky and unrealistic alot.

A lot of times dirt and grass areas are pretty horrible looking, particularly where seams come together.

[D_Litch]

Jaggies are the only thing that kills water for me. Bioshock had brilliant water, but when you walked through it, it was funky.