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Dev: Star Wars 1313 "for adults, not psychopaths"
Posted: 07.08.2012 18:06 by JonahFalcon Comments: 7
Star Wars 1313 creative director Dominic Robilliard has weighed in on the entire "videogame violence" debate that has been raging since the controversial E3 demos for such titles as The Last of Us and Tomb Raider, which graphically depicted violence and what some thought was rape in the latter game.

Robilliard stated that photorealism has definitely played a part, explaining, "When you can render characters that look like the ones in our game - and other games - you get to this realism level where you really don't want to encourage that kind of thing. Seeing that kind of reaction from gamers... It may well be human nature, but you don't want to put content out there that pushes those buttons."

There was some questioning, if not backlash, at Star Wars 1313's concept, in light of this.

"We had a lot of questions from people saying: mature Star Wars?" Robilliard noted. "Does that mean we're going to see blood and guts all over the place? That's not it at all - it's not what we're shooting for. I don't think that would ever fit in Star Wars, really."

Visual effects supervisor Kim Libreri summed up. "It's for adults, not for psychopaths."

Source: OXM UK

Comments

By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Aug 07, 2012
herodotus
Curious comment by Libreri,as she obviously has no understanding of the definition of a psychopath. What she's referring to are gamers that lust after gratuitous sex and violence....which is most of us. Some revel in it more than others, though.
As for the footage - looking good:)
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Aug 07, 2012
JonahFalcon
No no no. She meant to say "sociopaths", which most gamers are. :p
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Aug 07, 2012
SirRoderick
Those trailers are looking great! The photorealism thing still looks pretty "uncanny valley" to me, but I cannot argue with the concept so far.
By Gale47 (SI Core Veteran) on Aug 07, 2012
Gale47
The first Star Wars game after the KOTOR series that I might play. Gimme.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Aug 07, 2012
nocutius
Too bad it looks like it's gonna be a cover based shooter :(

Ah well, Star Wars is still Star Wars, I'll just wait for the reviews.
By Gale47 (SI Core Veteran) on Aug 07, 2012
Gale47
Cover based shooter in the SW universe, yay!
By HenoKutus (SI Core) on Aug 18, 2012
HenoKutus
Looks awesome,reminds me of Shadows Of The Empire