Faces of gaming: Real vs Virtual
Has next-gen tech brought perfect likenesses to gaming? We run the comparisons to find out
Above: Tiger Woods as Tiger Woods in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
You'd expect this likeness to be good, since the Tiger Woods series of golf games has been running for so long they've got bored and invented a new form of golf played with baguettes, peas and bottle caps. Well, no, that's a lie. But the likeness is very good.
Look, they've got his lips, eyebrows, ears, nose, hairline, jaw, etc and so forth completely down pat. Though we're not sure why he looks so puzzled in the game. Perhaps it's so real, that he's seen himself in the photo there and suffered an acute existential crisis, realising that he's actually just the virtual version, and all of this has been an electric dream programmed into his head. Or maybe not. Next!
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Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.