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QD: Yeah, prototyping in the IC engine was-there was at least nine or ten months of doing that, and then very little of what youвЂ™ve done translates. And so when you get the new engine, youвЂ™re starting from scratch. Nothing you tuned, none of the combat, none of the feel. Nothing technical would translate over to Essence. We had Band of Brothers, we had Saving Private Ryan before that and so it had a real presence in the marketplace, and it was big in shooters, and I thought that there was an opportunity to do something really spectacular and take a maybe different approach to RTS and to World War 2, to do some of the high production value stuff.Д«ut also we were sitting down and doing a bit of dreaming in terms of-weвЂ™re looking around at what other games are doing and cherry-picking and stealing, really-and we were like вЂњoh wow, lighting looks good over here, thereвЂ™s a thing called Normal Maps!вЂќ and вЂњThings use physics now! LetвЂ™s actually bring some of those things in.вЂќ And also additionally in terms of animation technology: вЂњWell lets have something that allows us to make better decisions about what animations weвЂ™re using and blending between them.вЂќ And all those things tying together really create a a more realistic character motion in what theyвЂ™re doing instead of just wiggly legs and arms.ДЄnd so Quinn-the programmers pretty much said вЂњwell, have two programmers, work on this prototype using some of our old engine technology and the rest of us are going to go away and make something new and fancy for you.вЂќ-So yeah, we kind of disappeared for about a year, which I think was quite infuriating for Quinn, because he kept wondering when he was going to get actually finally start making this game. World War 2 was popular-it was maybe just at its zenith in popularity. We knew RTS-we had a kind of engine to build games within and some people were ready. THQ was publishing Dawn of War at the time so we had a relationship with them and we were casting around for another project. Quinn Duffy, game director: We finished Impossible Creatures with Microsoft and we did the Insect Invasion expansion pack and so it was a small team kind of ready to go.

#Company of heroes movie Pc#

PC Gamer: Let's start at the beginning, the very first moment you guys decided to do a World War 2 game after coming off I believe it was Impossible Creatures, is that right? Was it an idea that had been hanging around the studio for a long time? How did it start?