While originally touted as another space adventure, the idea quickly changed into an action-oriented combat title, to be viewed largely from behind the ship, with gameplay similar to Psygnosis ' Colony Wars series, somewhat like a shooting-oriented X-Wing.

While the economic and social benefits of formalized land rights are often touted, some research suggests that such reforms are either ineffective or may cause further hardship or conflict.

While various herbs, touted or alluded to, were talked up in the advertising, their actual effects often came from procaine extracts, or grain alcohol.

While they hesitated in giving Yashin a five year, $ 4 million contract, they signed Daigle to one of the largest rookie contracts in history, and touted him over Yashin for the Calder Trophy at the conclusion of the 1993 – 94 season .< ref name =" sicnn ">

While Clark had long been touted as a potential successor to BC Premier Gordon Campbell, she often claimed she had no further interest in a political career.

While the novel is held up as a fine example of writing, it is not especially true to Zola's touted naturalist philosophy ; instead, it is one of the most symbolically complex of his novels, setting it apart from the earthy " realism " of L ' Assommoir or the more brutal " realism " of La Terre ( 1887 ).

While some advertisements in PC magazines from smaller manufacturers touted the superiority of their 486DLC over name-brand computers sporting a 486SX, in reality the only advantage the 486DLC offered feature-wise over the 486SX was the ability to add an inexpensive math-coprocessor.

While keeping with many of the same priorities and achievements he outlined in his previous address, Bush touted elections in Egypt and the Palestinian territories and praised reform in Saudi Arabia.

While other manufacturers settled for re-chroming their pre-war models, the 1947 Studebaker, touted as " First by Far with a Postwar Car ", had a completely new body.

While still serving in the Navy, Warnke teamed up with San Diego evangelist Morris Cerullo and was touted for his " Satanist experience ".

While the takeover / merger was touted in glowing terms in press releases, analysts quietly shared the opinion that, based on the terms of the transaction, Royal had few options and little time left.

While after he had risen to high office, Ensenada's pedigree was touted as distinguished, little is known about his parents, Francisco de Somodevilla and his wife, Francisca de Bengoechea, nor is anything known of his own life prior to entering the civil administration of the Spanish navy as a clerk in 1720.

While it is touted as " Limited Edition ", other carriers such as SaskTel and Solo Mobile sell the phone in its red colour, but without donating $ 15 of every purchase to Virgin Unite.

While Elahor was touted by some as the next Brian Laudrup, he would soon leave the club for Africa Sports, while Okechukwu would be named the 1992's Brøndby IF Player of the Year.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

While the equation is definitely superior to the ideal gas law and does predict the formation of a liquid phase, the agreement with experimental data is limited for conditions where the liquid forms.

While superior to the van der Waals equation of state, it performs poorly with respect to the liquid phase and thus cannot be used for accurately calculating vapor-liquid equilibria.

While OS / 2 was arguably technically superior to Microsoft Windows 95, OS / 2 sales were largely concentrated in networked computing used by corporate professionals.

While it is true that aggressive play is generally superior to passive play, using any play exclusively can lead to predictability.

While there are many audiophiles who still prefer vinyl records over digital music sources ( primarily compact disc ) for superior sound quality, they represent an enthusiastic minority of listeners.

While QSOs could be accomplished, it was quickly realized that FSK was technically superior to make and break keying.

While both types of blocks can produce pipes of the highest quality, most artisan pipe makers prefer to use plateaux because of its superior graining.

While cast-iron woks are superior to carbon steel woks in heat retention and uniform heat distribution, they respond slowly to heat adjustments and are slow to cool once taken off the fire.

While increasing demands on selection selectively changes activation in the rostral superior frontal sulcus and posterior cingulate / precuneus.

While the sensory input described above is ( general ) visceral sensation ( diffuse, poorly localized ), the vocal fold also receives general somatic sensory innervation ( proprioceptive and touch ) by the superior laryngeal nerve.

While indomethacin has historically been the most commonly used NSAID, an alternative, such as ibuprofen, may be preferred due to its better side effect profile in the absence of superior effectiveness.

While federal law is supreme relative to state law, federal courts are not always superior to state courts.

While Aquinas felt positive and negative theology should be seen as dialetical correctives to each other, like thesis and antithesis producing a synthesis, Lossky argues, based on his reading of Dionysius and Maximus Confessor, that positive theology is always inferior to negative theology, a step along the way to the superior knowledge attained by negation.

While not the originator of the methods he used, Napoleon very effectively combined the relatively superior maneuver and battle stages into one event.

While at MI9, he was the immediate superior of Michael Bentine.

" While " there is no proof that twelve-step programs ' are superior to any other intervention in reducing alcohol dependence or alcohol-related problems '," at the same time it is clear that " there is something about ' groupishness ' itself which is curative.

While Zhao focused on economic reforms during the early 1980s, his superior, Hu Yaobang, promoted a number of political reforms.

While having a limited total number of colors in an image is somewhat restrictive, nevertheless they can be well chosen, and this scheme is markedly superior to 8-bit color.

While the D-segment bifocal offers superior optics, an increasing number of people opt for progressive bifocal lenses.

While it was common for students of law to visit and study at schools in other countries, such was not the case with England because of the English rejection of Roman law ( except in certain specialized areas, such as admiralty court ) and although the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge did teach canon law until the English Reformation, the importance of common law was always superior to civil law in those institutions.

While a number of vasopressors can be used for septic shock norepinephrine appears superior to dopamine.

While some incorporate this remedy into their Constitutions, e. g., India, others treat it as an implied power of superior courts.

While other, lighter, fighters were mainly intended for defense, the destroyers were the ones mainly intended for offensive missions: to escort bombers on missions at long range, then use its superior speed to outrun defending fighters that would be capable of outmaneuvering it.

While the 320 pixel modes theoretically enable the 7800 to create games at higher resolution than the 256 pixel wide graphics found in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System, the intense processing demands of MARIA typically meant that programmers created their games using the lower 160 pixel modes.

While the idea of markup language originated with text documents, there is an increasing usage of markup languages in other areas which involve the presentation of various types of information, including playlists, vector graphics, web services, content syndication, and user interfaces.

While more powerful and with seemingly more advanced graphics, the Virtual Boy was not intended to replace the Game Boy in Nintendo's product line, as use of the system requires a steady surface and completely blocks the player's peripheral vision.

While support for driving pen plotters directly or saving files as HPGL has disappeared from most commercial graphics applications, several contemporary software packages make working with HPGL on modern operating systems possible.

While algorithms such as Wu's algorithm are also frequently used in modern computer graphics because they can support antialiasing, the speed and simplicity of Bresenham's line algorithm means that it is still important.

While featuring Nintendo's trademark Mario character, the game's graphics and gameplay differed from all previous Mario games in that players control various Yoshi dinosaurs rather than Mario himself, who appears as a helpless infant.

While the Astrocade ( and Datamax UV-1 ) had limited text capabilities but excellent graphics, the Sorcerer instead had excellent text and only limited graphical capability.

While initially derided for poor performance in comparison to the more sophisticated graphics devices used in computers like the Atari 400, framebuffers eventually became the standard for all personal computers.

While the original reasons for this are lost to history, it is often used on modern systems to support programs such as the Sun Microsystems JVM that do not allow dynamic graphics to be generated in a headless environment.

While all versions were nearly identical in terms of gameplay, the EGA PC port had upgraded graphics ( there was also a CGA version ), although the C64 boasted the best sound.

While there had already been simple target-shooting games using this perspective, Star Raiders had considerably higher quality graphics and more complex game play.

While the game follows its own story and maps, much of the game utilizes the same game play mechanics, even going as far as adding in a " classic " mode that removed all of the game's graphics, replacing it with a wireframe environment, 8-bit-style sprites for monsters and characters, and chiptune music.

While third-party game engines were not common up until the rise of 3D computer graphics in the 1990s, there were several 2D game creation systems produced in the 1980s for independent video game development.

While flight and driving simulators and real-time strategy ( RTS ) games increasingly provide realism on a large scale, first-person shooters are at the forefront of computer graphics on these smaller scales.

While the game included HD updated graphics and various Live leaderboards, online play was absent which makes it an exception amongst most games ported to Xbox Live Arcade.

While some have speculated that shipping the " Rampage " might have saved 3dfx, the fact remains that the company never mastered the new concept of relatively cheap, high-performance designs with integrated 3D acceleration, which was rapidly becoming the de facto standard of PC graphics vise 2D.

" While the graphics were much-improved, especially on 8-bit versions, the game lacked any sense of accomplishment.

While both editions retain Rod Lord's illustrations, all placeholder graphics were replaced by artwork designed and sent in by contest participants.

While the K6-2 had mediocre floating-point performance compared to the Celeron, it offered faster system RAM access ( courtesy of the Super 7 mainboard ), as well as 3DNow graphics extensions.

While not the first arcade racing game with 3D graphics ( it was predated by Winning Run, Hard Drivin ' and Stunts ), it was able to combine the best features of games at the time, along with multiplayer machine linking and clean 3D graphics to produce a game that was above and beyond the arcade market standard of its time, laying the foundations for subsequent 3D racing games.

While some high-end graphics workstation systems and the accessories marketed toward use with such systems, as from SGI, have always used more than 8 bits per channel, such as 12 or 16 ( 36-bit or 48-bit color ), such color depths have only worked their way into the general market more recently.

While crude by modern standards, in 1980 Akalabeth < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s graphics and dungeon crawl gameplay mechanics were considered quite advanced, and the game attracted a large amount of attention.

** While high-end graphing calculators can graph in 3-D, GraphCalc benefits from modern computers ' memory, speed, and graphics acceleration ( OpenGL )