The graphics will be just as alive as we know it from Magic Carpet II. Bullfrog created a totally new graphics engine for the game - but probably while taking notes from MC II. The monsters will, as in Diablo, 2D pictures of 3D rendered creatures to speed up the framerate. And if your CPU can handle the math fast enough - you can select true lighting which creates real-time shadows - which looks very impressive in the screenshots we’ve seen so far. Gouraud shading is also an option. To spare the processor, Gouraud shading merely calculates a few spots on the surface of an object and then interpolates (like most scanners nowadays).

As a new feature - there will be three different views: