Unlike the original game, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein was originally developed simultaneously for both the Apple II and the Commodore 64, but was quickly ported to DOS and the Atari 8-bit.

Unlike Wolfenstein 3D, which had essentially been a plotless shooter game, Hall wanted Doom to have an elaborate story.

Unlike other first-person games of the time, System Shock features true 3D environments, and allows the player to look up and down, duck, go prone, jump, mantle, and lean to the side.

Unlike in far-UV CD, the near-UV CD spectrum cannot be assigned to any particular 3D structure.

Unlike previous 3D games Quake used the pipelined Pentium FPU to do perspective correction calculations in the background while texture mapping, effectively doing two tasks at once.

Unlike Connectix's commercial Virtual Game Station, it made use of a PC's 3D graphics hardware for rendering allowing for enhanced resolutions and filtered textures not possible on real hardware.

Unlike the Panasonic, the Sony HDR-TD10 has the 3D lens built in but it can still shoot a normal 2D video.

Unlike most 3D hardware, it has a set limit on the number of triangles it can render as part of a single scene ; the maximum amount is about 6144 vertices, or 2048 triangles per frame.

Unlike many games of its time, which used polygon-based renderers exploiting 3D accelerators, Westwood opted for their own software-based renderer using voxel technology ( called " voxel plus ").

Unlike the Voodoo2 ( but like the slower Matrox G200 ) it also added support for a 32-bit ( truecolor ) pixel format, 24-bit Z-buffer in 3D mode, a 8-bit stencil buffer and support for 1024 × 1024 pixels textures.

Unlike its predecessors, Pokémon Puzzle League features a 3D mode in addition to the traditional 2D mode.

Unlike Myst, which used static screens, The 7th Guest was the first game to use full rendered 3D animation and navigation.

Unlike the earlier games in the series it used Ultimate's filmation engine to achieve a 3D look using isometric projection.

Unlike the arcade version, several of these versions inspired a sequel, Paperboy 2 for several home systems ( Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, NES, SNES, ZX Spectrum ), and a 3D version for the Nintendo 64 called Paperboy 64.

Unlike those games, however, the game uses prerendered digitized 2D sprites of high-resolution 3D models similar to the Donkey Kong Country series, or Killer Instinct, on top of fully 3D levels ( and with fully 3D bosses ).

Unlike the first two films, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is more Disney-esque in plot and pacing, and does not make use of the Fleischer Tabletop 3D background process.

Unlike the previous two PlayStation 2 G-Gen games, Spirits will no longer make use of the 3D combat and battle engine, instead reverting to the original PlayStation and PSP titles ' system of battle.

Unlike Euphoria, also developed by NaturalMotion, Endorphin is not an engine, but a 3D animation tool for Windows PC.

Unlike many games using full motion video, however, it also featured high-end real-time 3D graphics and explorable environments unlike anything previously seen in the genre.

Unlike In Cold Blood, that combined 3D characters with pre-rendered graphics, the third Broken Sword game, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon ( 2003 ), became a real-time 3D adventure game, with mild action elements ( such as using stealth, climbing, shimmying, and pushing objects ).

Unlike many previous space simulators, X-Wing used a fully 3D game engine

Unlike TNA Wrestling, the previous mobile game based on TNA, TNA Wrestling Impact features 3D graphics and is more action-oriented than its predecessor.

Unlike the American game, Canadian rules allow a drop kick to be attempted at any time by any player, but the move is very rare.

Unlike every other version of the game, Duke Nukem cannot turn ; he can only move forwards, backwards, and strafe left or right.

Unlike other handheld game consoles, the first Game. com consoles included two slots for game cartridges and could be connected to a 14. 4 kbit / s modem.

Unlike reality television franchises, international game show franchises generally only see Canadian adaptations in a series of specials, based heavily on the American versions but usually with a Canadian host to allow for Canadian content credits.

Unlike in basketball, where players are allowed to commit only 5 fouls in a game ( 6 in the NBA ), handball players are allowed an unlimited number of faults, which are considered good defense and disruptive to the attacking team's rhythm.

Unlike the d20 System and many other game systems, experience awards are in the form of character points, which have the same value as those used in character creation and can be applied directly to the character's abilities upon receipt.

Unlike most computer software, Infocom titles were distributed under a no-returns policy, which allowed them to make money from a single game for a longer period of time.

Unlike the FDS version, which saves the player's progress on the Disk Card, the NES release uses a password system to return to a game after the console was turned off.

Unlike most other video game consoles of its time, the Neo Geo does not use tilemap background layers.

Unlike many Satellaview titles, Radical Dreamers was not designed to lock after a certain number of play-throughs, so players owning an 8M Memory Pack onto which the game was downloaded can still play today.

Unlike in a purely cyberpunk game, in the Shadowrun world, magic exists and has " worked " since 2011.

Unlike any other Mario Kart game before or since, it features two riders in each kart, allowing for a new form of cooperative multilayer where one player controls the kart's movement and the other fires weapons.

Unlike Link, Zelda, and most other recurring characters, he is actually the same person in every game, with the exception of Four Swords Adventures, where he is a reincarnation of the original.

Unlike Scrabble, which is controlled by competitors Hasbro ( in the U. S .) and Mattel ( in Europe ), Upwords is at this time solely under the worldwide licensing control of Hasbro, making it the only such worldwide word game property that can be Internet-marketed and Internet-offered with complete licensing control.

Unlike Hex, this game is not known to be PSPACE hard.

Unlike the first game which had a happy and friendly atmosphere, almost everything in this game is hostile towards Keen, from the floating machine gun robots to the electrified floors.

Unlike the original game, this version, which they call Adders-and-Ladders, involves skill.

Unlike most karuta where a reader need to be present for the game to be played, Hokkaido Hougen Karuta includes a CD-ROM with the reading of the cards being read by a native of the Hokkaido dialect.

Unlike Baroque, the King in Maxima moves like the Knight in Chess, making for a game with much more fluid movement of pieces.

Unlike the game of Renaissance described above, Rococo has a similarly named Swapper piece that moves like a Queen, but trades places with the enemy it runs up to, a full Queen's move away.

Unlike previous campaign settings, in which the calendar was frozen at a point chosen by the author, the Living Greyhawk calendar did advance one year in game time for every calendar year in real time: the campaign started in 591 CY ( 2001 ) and ended in 598 CY ( 2008 ), at which point over a thousand adventures had been produced for an audience of over ten thousand players.

Unlike most characters Clark can give briefings on every mission throughout the game.

Unlike previous Battle. net-enabled games, Warcraft III introduced anonymous matchmaking, automatically pairing players for games based on their skill level and game type preferences, preventing players from cheating and inflating their records artificially.