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title: "Digital Foundry Retro: Water Rendering games"
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description: "Digital Foundry has been on a roll lately producing in-depth videos of not only upcoming games, but also of games of the retro variety."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2018-08-08 19:00:24"
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Digital Foundry Retro: Water Rendering games | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![Digital Foundry Retro: Water Rendering games](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/digital-foundry-retro-water-rendering-games.png "Digital Foundry Retro: Water Rendering games")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/digital-foundry-retro-water-rendering-games.png)Digital Foundry has been on a roll lately producing in-depth videos of not only upcoming games, but also of games of the retro variety.

In one their latest video they have taken a look at the water rendering in a number of classic titles including the beloved Super Mario Sunshine. How does it do when compared to other games?

## [](#digital-foundry-retro-water-rendering)Digital Foundry – Retro Water rendering

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    32:15

[Link](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/general/digital-foundry-retro-water-rendering-games/)

To give you a good view of what is featured;

**0:00 – GAMECUBE / INTRO**
2:00 – Wave Race: Blue Storm
5:58 – Super Mario Sunshine
11:48 – Star Fox Adventures
13:09 – Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

**14:59 – XBOX**
16:36 – Blood Wake
17:26 – Blinx the Time Sweeper
18:50 – The Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind
20:15 – Beyond Good and Evil
20:54 – Far Cry

**22:18 – PC**
22:18 – Half Life 2
23:58 – F.E.A.R.

**24:40 – OTHER EXAMPLES**
24:56 – Bioshock
27:24 – Halo 3
29:09 – Hydrophobia

As you can see water has come a long way. In fact this was not even the first video Digital Foundry did on it;

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    30:11

[Link](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/general/digital-foundry-retro-water-rendering-games/)

So much gaming worlds involve water in one form or another, so to say the least it is fascinating to see how things have changed over the course of time.

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