German Version of SiN Ep2 to be tenter, loving and caring.
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:58 am
Huh yes the USK!
Ritual's QA gyroscope Michael Russell has started a new series of articles on his personal blog, detailing the changes that were required in order for SiN Episodes: Emergence to get its USK rating, thus approving it for sale in Germany:
I'll be discussing the change itself, the reasoning behind the change, and show that there are no gameplay ramifications from the changes. The six changes that we are going to be going over are ragdoll physics, fire, gibs, jetpack deaths, civilians/unarmed characters and applied forces. Saddle up, this is going to get interesting...
Part 1 is up now and covers the handling of civilians as well as unarmed enemies. Here's a clip from that:
[...] At this point, we had two choices. We could take the easy road and just make civilians and unarmed enemies (like the U4 technicians) invincible. Had we done this, people who purchased the USK version would get an experience similar to other games where when they come across a civilian, they can't really do anything…the civilian is just for show. The second choice would be to make it so that civilians don't express fear to the player.
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http://www.romsteady.net/blog/2006/11/s ... art-1.html
http://www.ritualistic.com/content.php/ ... in_usk.php
http://www.ritualistic.com/content.php/ ... in_usk.php
Ritual's QA gyroscope Michael Russell has started a new series of articles on his personal blog, detailing the changes that were required in order for SiN Episodes: Emergence to get its USK rating, thus approving it for sale in Germany:
I'll be discussing the change itself, the reasoning behind the change, and show that there are no gameplay ramifications from the changes. The six changes that we are going to be going over are ragdoll physics, fire, gibs, jetpack deaths, civilians/unarmed characters and applied forces. Saddle up, this is going to get interesting...
Part 1 is up now and covers the handling of civilians as well as unarmed enemies. Here's a clip from that:
[...] At this point, we had two choices. We could take the easy road and just make civilians and unarmed enemies (like the U4 technicians) invincible. Had we done this, people who purchased the USK version would get an experience similar to other games where when they come across a civilian, they can't really do anything…the civilian is just for show. The second choice would be to make it so that civilians don't express fear to the player.
More
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http://www.romsteady.net/blog/2006/11/s ... art-1.html
http://www.ritualistic.com/content.php/ ... in_usk.php
http://www.ritualistic.com/content.php/ ... in_usk.php
