Cell Shaded Graphics

Cell Shaded graphics have come from a long range of childishly designed games, and have more recently been used within shooters. Cell shaded refers to graphics they have a strong Outline over models and then are coloured within. This technique is often used to replicate the styles of comic books or cartoons and apply them into a 3D setting of a video game or animation. As you can imagine this technique is not popular amongst games such as call of duty which aim to make a game as realistic as possible, which this technique will not suit. However, this style has performed very well with more humorous or just more light hearted games such as the family guy game, The legend of Zelda series and even Megaman. But, a brave step was taken by the developers at 2K games, when they released borderlands, which was to be a post-apocalyptic first person shooter, adopting to use the Cell-shaded graphics type. This was thought to be an interesting turn and was met with an applause as the game recieved multiple awards including xbox 360's game of the year awards for 2009. This showed evidence that this strange and unique art style can serve as a new and interesting view for all genres of the gaming industry.