It has been likened to a three-dimensional game on a two-dimensional board.

"The soccer mom and the cab driver are not looking for complex, three-dimensional games," Mr. Lasky said.

Adjusted for the three-dimensional game, Obscuration rules, four percent.

The President's defenders are champs at the three-dimensional game of scandal control.

This three-dimensional game succeeds in some measure because of this very openness and because the experience is so convincing.

It also wants to create three-dimensional games that will permit Internet surfers to simulate a flight around Britain.

Murata, the main programmer, expressed his concerns in working towards a large-scale three-dimensional game for the first time.

Plenty of computer applications demand high performance, including three-dimensional games, software development, graphic arts and publishing, multimedia explorations and complex financial analysis.

The action is viewed from above, which presents challenges very different from those of a three-dimensional game.

The game was the first three-dimensional texture-mapped game on the Mac and the first true first-person shooter.