"Dead to Rights is all about extreme visceral combat," says Dead to Rights: Retribution character art manager Dan Calvert in this latest developer diary, "it's all about action, adrenaline. We have awesome violence."
The game is so violent, in fact, that the team says it had to tone down the look and feel of the characters because of it. While they initially went for a photo realistic look, they found that the game was so violent that it actually made people uncomfortable. Because of that, they went with a more stylized look for in-game character models.
The team also goes on about the design choices made for the game's dog, Shadow. You'd think they just sat around and said "Let's make a bad ass wolf dog thing that gnaws people's faces off." But it's a bit more complicated than that, as things usually are. There's more details in the video if my "bad ass wolf dog thing that gnaws people's face off" explanation isn't good enough for you.
Dead to Rights: Retribution ships for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010.
I have no problem in Firefox, so they should be working. It's my understanding that if you're running an ad-blocker, they won't work. That could be the problem. There's some crazy ass dog action in this video, so it might be worth it to disable the blocker if one is running.
Something in the implementation of the videos violates the default rules of Adblock Plus. Simply unchecking viddler does not get the video to play. You can temporarily allow all scripts on the page and they still will not play. The only way it works is through disabling Adblock Plus entirely (or tracking down the specific rule in the options, but I haven't been able to find it).
"While they initially went for a photo realistic look, they found that the game was so violent that it actually made people uncomfortable." What people? Ratings board people? Sounds to me like a crappy excuse for not wanting/being able to make it look better.
I like it how they talk like they just made a masterpiece, the game looks like any other game, main character has nothing special about him. BUT THE DOG HAS BLUE EYES!!!
As long as it's as fun as the first one, I'm sold. :)
Dead to Rights was one of my favorites on Gamecube. Sure, it was like the ugly, budget version of Max Payne; but, strangely enough, it was also much more fun to me than MP.
I dunno, while I'm not interested in this game, making a game stylized doesn't necessarilly make it worse. I know for a fact I would've never bought Borderlands if it didn't have that beautifully slick style.
That being said, wow, they talked like they made a masterpiece, and all I see in front of me is another generic character design. Oh well, at least he's not a bald space marine with a scar.
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