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Used heavily in the survival horror game genre, it was first seen in Infogrames' Alone in the Dark series in the early 1990s; it was later revived and bought up to date by Capcom in the Resident Evil series.

Other notable examples include

• Final Fantasy VII ( Squaresoft)
• Mario Party series ( Nintendo)
• Blade Runner ( Westwood StudiosWestwood Studios was an American developer of computer and video games. Based in Las Vegas, the company was founded as Westwood Associates by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985. Their first projects were contract work for companies like Epyx and SSI, p) - apparently the backgrounds are rendered in real time, using millions of polygons, although this is difficult to tell
• Ecstatica and Ecstatica 2 ( Andrew Spencer / PsygnosisPsygnosis was a British company that published moody computer games boasting psychedelic cover art by Yes artist Roger Dean. Founded by Ian Hetherington and Jonathan Ellis, the Liverpool-based Psygnosis was essentially born from the ashes of defunct 8-bit) - unusual in that the backgrounds and characters are rendered with ellipsoidDefinition In mathematics, an ellipsoid is a type of quadric that is a higher dimensional analogue of an ellipse. The equation of a standard ellipsoid in an x ''y ''z Cartesian coordinate system is : where a b and c are fixed positive real numbers determis, leading to a very natural looking set of creatures. Like Blade Runner, it again is rendered entirely in real time, although it is difficult to tell at first sight
• ( Nintendo) - dropped for complete 3D in its successor, , 2D is used for many of the building interiors and for an entire town.

Admittedly, there seems little to separate fixed 3D from its precursor, the graphic adventure gameThis is an article on the computer game subcategory. For the UK children's television series, please see The Adventure Game''. An adventure game is a type of computer game. The definition is very broad in scope, but fundamentally an adventure game can be ( Monkey IslandMonkey Island is a series of graphical point-and-click adventure games published by LucasArts. The games follows the misadventures of the hapless aspiring pirate Guybrush Threepwood as he struggles to become the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean, whi, Sam and MaxSam and Max are a pair of comic book characters Sam a 6-foot anthropomorphic dog, Max a "hyperkinetic rabbitty thing" who occupy a parody of American popular culture. They are private investigators. The comic books are laced with dark, nihilistic and surr etc.), but whereas the latter overlays 2D characters over a 2D background, fixed 3D is at least 3D overlaid on 2D, and often onto 3D.