Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Machinima - use it wisely

WAR needs machinima. The art of machinimating has been pimping out a lot of games and to my mind it often works better than fancy trailers and advertising. To see funny, dramatic or action-packed things within the game really gets me going. Type machinma in You Tube and press search: you will get the idea. The most popular movies have over 5000000 views and among those people there has to be a good portion of those that think "this kicks butt, maybe I should try the game out and see if it really looks as good".
WAR machinima has its ways to go although there are some decent movies already. Warhammer strikes me a as pretty machinima-friendly game, you can really poke around with the emotes, the locations can really give the movie character. To my mind Mythic has done a great job with making the world of WAR: the towers in Ostland trudging through the thick branches, the beams of sunlight coming through the trees and all the fancy and pretty awesome stuff you find in the dwarf locations will make a movie look like a million views! Although the game could use some diversity when it comes to transportation. There could be some ships to go across the oceans or something along that line, there could have been more cities (not like Altdorf or the Inevitable City) or rather towns. I mean the war camps are great but I'd like to see the Lands consisting not just of a big capital and villages.
I realize that you cannot ask the game to change so that it would be better for machinima. It is not machinima that makes a game, but developers should keep in mind that there is a wonderful type of art out there. And you can use it for your greedy needs *evil laugh*.

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