Sega confirms Phantasy Star for PC but extinguishes hopes of full cross-platform play
PC version announced but no link up play
Sega’s Sonic Team has announced that it will be porting the Dreamcast game Phantasy Star Online to Windows for home PCs.
The new version will use the Pentium 4 SSE2 and will provide a massive graphical improvement over the original. The field drawing will take half the time, and polygons for the field will be separated into smaller parts, which will result in four times the poly-count. There will also be enhanced lighting and particle effects. Bump mapping on textures will be incorporated to enhance the facial appearance of the characters and the limit in clipping will be doubled.
In related news, Sega has stated that it will not be linking the Dreamcast and GameCube versions of Phantasy Star Online Version 2 when the GameCube version goes online late next year. No reason was given for this.
The new version will use the Pentium 4 SSE2 and will provide a massive graphical improvement over the original. The field drawing will take half the time, and polygons for the field will be separated into smaller parts, which will result in four times the poly-count. There will also be enhanced lighting and particle effects. Bump mapping on textures will be incorporated to enhance the facial appearance of the characters and the limit in clipping will be doubled.
In related news, Sega has stated that it will not be linking the Dreamcast and GameCube versions of Phantasy Star Online Version 2 when the GameCube version goes online late next year. No reason was given for this.
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