With this year’s Game Developers Conference set to take place from March 5-9 in San Francisco, some news is finally beginning to trickle down about the event.
The folks in charge of GDC have sent out a notification today that the popular Classic Games Postmortems series if making its return to this year’s show.
Joystiq:
The dextrous legs of Mirror's Edge heroine Faith helped to shape the movement of characters in Battlefield 3, EA DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson said in a speech today during GDC Europe. No, you don't spend too much time parkouring around the war torn arenas of Battlefield 3, but various animations – Faith vaulting over obstacles, for instance – directly shaped the way BF3's soldiers interacted with their environment.
To be honest, I was expecting better implementation of the first person perspective than I did in Battlefield 3. The only real animation is the exact same one that's recycled over and over again when you vault over obstacles.
DICE should have been braver in my opinion and really gone for a more comprehensive set of animations; for example a close call with an explosion knocking you back or down, ejecting from vehicles etc.
See the list of the finalist for the Game Developers Choice Online Awards. And stay tuned for when the voting beings online to make your favorite win.
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