Today I have a new screenshot for you… this time it’s Verdant Cascades from Eye of the North. While playing Eye of the North you begin to understand ArenaNet’s design philosophy: that it’s not about pushing pixels or polygons, it’s about the art. That’s what allows Guild Wars to run on middle-range PCs systems.

Unless you’re specifically focusing on it, you tend to overlook the low-polygon trees and flat leaves… and see the environment as a whole, designed to provide atmosphere and opportunities to explore.

I expect we’ll be seeing more focus on the jungle environments with the introduction of the Sylvari.