Game view poll. Strategy interface and maps

[muxec]

The most important part of strategy is strategical part (sounds ugly). And graphics, animation etc. are less important. For example some people still play Civ1 and enjoy playing. But game appearance affects your ability to see teh map. Some strategic games lost their popularity due to their full 3D and good graphics, that makes seeing strategic tiles harder. So graphics is also very important part of strategy game.
The first way of showing map is full 2D. You can see it in civ1 for example. The next ways of showing were different isometric and birds eye views. Some games provide special hexagonal isometry. Finaly modern games use 3D.
What do you prefer?

[Static Universe]

I personally prefer the isometric view, but hexagonal isn't bad either. Can't really stand most 3d.

[Nikolai]

The way Civ 2 and 3 and EU2 have it is fine IMHO(in that kind of game of course). But what is that called?

[Static Universe]

Originally posted by Nikolai
The way Civ 2 and 3 and EU2 have it is fine IMHO(in that kind of game of course). But what is that called?

That's the isometric view.

[Nikolai]

Thanks! My vote is in! BTW, out of 3 votes, 3 is for isometric. It'll be interesting to see if that changes after more votes or not.

[Static Universe]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Thanks! My vote is in! BTW, out of 3 votes, 3 is for isometric. It'll be interesting to see if that changes after more votes or not.

Given that this is such a Civ-friendly site, I suspect isometric view will dominate the poll.

But let's see how it plays out...

[Adagio]

I prefer Isometric... everything is better than 3D, since it's mostly done poorly... very poorly...

[Dauphin]

Isometric. The ability to rotate the map through 90 degrees would be useful on a few occasions when there are graphical problems with a particular view.

[muxec]

Originally posted by Static Universe


Given that this is such a Civ-friendly site, I suspect isometric view will dominate the poll.

Civ1 is full 2D. And i voted it

[yaroslav]

I've voted for isometric, but I also like Full 2D. I haven't seen a 3D game easy to control yet...

[alva]

Isometric.

Too much time and enegy is waste on things as free-cam etc... you don't use it, it demands top of the line hardware...

[DrSpike]

For TBS isometric is best.........don't really see how that will change much.

[Felch]

Isometric looks nicer than straight 2D without sacrificing ease of use.

[Adagio]

Could someone please tell me what Hexagonal isometry is? I'm not 100% sure about this one...

[Felch]

It's where you have six-sided squares I think. Like in some classic board games and stuff. It's meant to make diagonal movements the same as straight lines, I think.