Website Review :: bandit3

http://www.bandit3.com

From the the fwa website i found a pretty awesome website http://www.bandit3.com/. The website is fully 3d, allowing the user to have a freelook around a 3d environment of a inner city area. The website is set up for promoting bandit3 a kite boarding company, however to someone who has no knowledge of kite boarding could maybe make a vague reference to it but thats about it, first it was not clear what the website was about. Through exploreing & later reading the fwa's description of the website it became more clear.

As i explored the 3d inner city space from a street view it took me to videos of more about the company and other information, there are scenes where the user can look freely around the environment and to go to other sections there is a cut scene which automatically takes you there, this is good not to lose the user in the website but bad because it takes away an element of free looking around and exploring the website.

I really liked this website not for the content but for the environment and thinking about it, it probably wouldn't be too hard to use it in other things, like a tourism webste or in a 3d based game. The models seem simple with pasted texture what looked like photos put on to them so i think the concept is quite easy, overall i liked the website.