Was this a normal option that could be enabled? I played countless hours and I don't remember it at all. The article mentions Perspective Mode like it was something that could trivially be turned on.
IIRC it was added pretty late in development, I remember it because my only involvement was adding the UI menu option to allow users to turn it on/off.
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I remember it sometimes being in the options menu and sometimes not (and sometimes showing up but disabled). Maybe there were a different combination of versions or graphics cards that produced those different results. Perhaps earlier versions hid the option if your graphics card didn't support it, and later versions showed it but grayed it out.
Yes, perspective mode existed. I believe it needed to be running on glide which needed certain graphics cards at the time. Glide also enabled dynamic lighting.
The article clearly says the mode exists in the game but it wasn't exposed through options and it's not mentioned in any official documentation.
I only played it years and years after release at the behest of an obsessed friend, but when I played it, the setting was right there in the options menu
The article does not say this, and it was in the game options. You did need the right type of graphics card though.