Here’s why: He was “fucking sick” of his PS3. “There weren’t any original games that really blew me away,” Garland tells Edge Magazine. “I was really into Xbox Live; I was much more into playing Call Of Duty 4 on Xbox Live. So Xbox really had its claws into me, and I just never bought Heavenly Sword.”
But when he finally did play through Heavenly Sword, he was “very impressed” with the title. “Because by then I knew more about my industry, the film industry, and knew how hard it is to get something which isn’t pre-existing – which is to say the licence – financed and off the ground, with enough money to actually do a decent job,” Garland adds. “There were all sorts of things, and some were imaginative and some were pure production values.”
Garland is frank and says that if he had not been impressed with Heavenly Sword, he would have found a way to “politely” step away from the project. But he didn’t, and voila, we have Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.
Interview: Alex Garland – Part One [Edge Magazine]
calvinium
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 2:01 PM“There weren’t any original games that really blew me away”
“I was really into Xbox Live; I was much more into playing Call Of Duty 4 on Xbox Live.”
Really? C’mon. CoD4 is as unoriginal, mass produced, cookie cutter extruded as they come!
T-Rocket
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 4:08 PMEven more so with him playing online. Where it is just repetition of the same objectives.
Trigger Aznable
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 11:58 PMWow. I am almost put off buying the game now. Call of Duty as a whole is unoriginal. Nothing wrong with that.