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VideoGamer.com: What do you say to those who say Heroes' art style has been lifted from Team Fortress 2?
BC: Well those guys aren't artists. If you asked our art director he would point out probably 200 differences in the art style between our game and Team Fortress. There's only two cartoony shooters out there and those are the two. If there were 50 cartoony shooters out there we wouldn't be having this discussion. No one says that Battlefield: Bad Company's ripping off Call of Duty because it's realistic.
AdvertisementWe developed our art style in January 2007. At that point there were very little images out there from Team Fortress. As more details about Team Fortress came out we said well there's a similarity here because we're both cartoony, shall we change and go realistic again? But no we decided we wanted to keep going. The alternative would have been another gritty, realistic WW2 game and everyone's fed up with those. We really believe in our style and we're just going to go ahead and do it.
VideoGamer.com: Heroes is a PC only title. Could it ever come to XBL or PSN?
BC: There's lots of interest about us doing that. People mention it all the time. We really want to focus on the PC at the moment. The great thing about the PC for us is we can control the website, we can control all of the transactions, all of the advertising; we can tailor the service. If we went on 360 we would have to go through the MS process. Every time we added new content it would have to go through all of the MS vetting processes, it would go through their billing system. We really want to control this. There's a small group of guys at the DICE studio in Stockholm and they run it like a start up. They're just Heroes totally focused. So we really like the freedom the PC gives us to control the whole experience.
VideoGamer.com: But is it possible?
BC: It's possible. We could port the engine and do it I just don't know what we would gain from it. Everyone who has got a 360 or PS3 will also have a PC that can run this game. It's got incredibly low system specs. So if they want to play it they can just play it on their PC.
VideoGamer.com: So you feel you wouldn't get any additional sales from a 360 or PS3 version?
BC: No, no. I don't think so. We want to try and get people back on their PCs playing games really.
VideoGamer.com: That's something I wanted to ask you about actually, the whole PC gaming is dead debate. You would suggest not then I guess?
BC: Absolutely not. Not only is there a completely new market who are playing the flash games, that kind of thing, but then we're starting to have these games like Heroes which are slightly more like a real full game on the PC. And also the high-end PC games market is doing well. If you look only at the American figures for only specific games maybe it looks disappointing, but if you look at the whole global market it's doing really well and EA are going to continue to make PC games, absolutely. Especially the EA Games label, we're really committed to PC.
Battlefield Heroes will be available to download to PC this summer.
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Anonymous wrote at 02:38 on 30 April 2008
Now I see, which market DICE is targeting. Couch potato teenagers. I am not suprised really. Especially considering the fact that the interviewees responses sound like its coming from a 15 year old. They need to get rid of this executive producer Ben Cousins who sounds like a real dummy or perhaps VG should hire a real editor. Anyways, DICE needs to get a grip with reality and cater to the gamer who has money to spend for GOOD QUALITY games that do not require a BILLION PATCHES, useless in-game adverstising and garner real support instead or just bloody well stick to the console market for no brain gamers already who like their bling bling and leave the PC market to developers who actually care enough about their products so that their games. Developers who care enough that their don't get pirated AS ITS WORTH actually buying their games since the gamer is guaranteed quality, support and long time commitment from a publisher that actually understands what a game is and has played one before.
Puffles wrote at 18:08 on 30 April 2008
Anonymous, you're hilarious. EA releases a free game, and all you do is complain, and say that they should stick to charging lots of money for their games.
Brandon wrote at 18:39 on 30 April 2008
Anonymous, you dont know what you want, your probaly a 11 year old couch potato yourself,
yupieduu wrote at 08:49 on 08 May 2008
really, Anonymous. you sound like a 15 year old kid, not cousins