Havok creators praise Heavenly Sword
- Posted September 26th, 2007 at 04:37 EDT by Tyrell Jackson
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Developer Ninja Theory knew that they had a hit on their hands with Heavenly Sword all throughout development. Using the Havok physics SDK and animation system engines, the game created an unprecedented level of realism, delivering a true next-generation gaming experience.
Indeed, while sales figures may show the success of Heavenly Sword from a retail perspective, middleware company Havok have taken it upon themselves to highlight the success of the hit PS3 game from a development level.
“Heavenly Sword is a fantastic game on a number of fronts. An emotionally rendering storyline, a beautiful heroine, a wide range of villains, epic scale destruction, in a beautiful environment, with the realism of Hollywood visuals offers the player an incredible gaming experience, especially on PlayStation 3,” said Havok CEO, David O’Meara.
“This game is a great example of how a talented development team can use cutting edge physics and animation technology to bring games to a whole new level and leverage the power of Havok’s PlayStation 3 optimizations. We are very proud to be involved in the latest evolution of this next generation console game.”
Co-Founder & CTO at Ninja Theory, Mike Ball added: “Havok Complete allowed us to enhance game-play in Heavenly Sword by enabling us to create characters that responded to a complex physical world, with a rich set of physical interactions. The characters respond in a convincing way to physical forces they experience, such as getting back up in a realistic manner when they have fallen down or negotiating obstacles they encounter. "
"Additionally we were extremely happy with the ability of Havok Complete to fully utilize the spectrum of available processing power on the PlayStation 3's Cell processor. As developers, it truly enabled us to create the level of destruction you would expect from a next-generation martial arts epic, especially in scenes with high character count.”
As you have read, the PS3 exclusive is gaining success not only in sales and review scores, but also by the creators of the engine that Heavenly Sword runs off of. This further creates the picture that development on the PlayStation 3 may be arduous at times, but the quality of the final product speaks for itself.
Source: Develop Mag
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Stef Nighthawk
- 5:07am BST - September 26th, 2007
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Bought it, trying to find time to play it.
Boss (and wife too)!! Give me some free time. :-p
Too bad Rogue Galaxy got out in the same month, don't know which one to play first.
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Enacku |
enacku- 8:54am BST - September 26th, 2007
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Not into these type of games at all, mostly into sports, fps and race games. But i was at blockbuster a few days ago, saw they had 1 available to rent. I got it, and fell in love with the game. Such an amazing game, game is a tad on the short side, maybe 7 hours or so gameplay. But it gets harder and harder, had no clue i would enjoy this game so much considering i dont play these types of games. Amazing.
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Scarecrowi |
Ifrit99- 9:42am BST - September 26th, 2007
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Not since Final Fantasy X have I been SO engaged by a game's story.
Heavenly Sword delivers in graphics, gameplay, meaningful gameplay at that.
A lot of times this game feels so magical........everything you do has meaning to it and you really feel the situation all around you.
This game's pure gold!
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Kojiro000 |
ShinKojiro- 10:48am BST - September 26th, 2007
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now to wait another 4 or so years for the next 8hr long game =/. i wanna see more action RPG's durnit! enuf with the linear 1 level of play crap. so what, do you like start off with the most powerful sword, and the only sword you ever use? what fun is that.
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Gameware336 |
Tyrial- 12:17pm BST - September 26th, 2007
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no you dont start off with the sword..well the intro takes place at the end so you do..but you dont start the storyline with the sword..you actually have a longsword for the first few hours..play the game before you think you know it
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debamf
- 9:50am BST - September 27th, 2007
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Its the story and the visuals that help this game be so compelling. The way I see it, is that its like your playing/getting involved in an Epic movie. If you can think of your favourite action or adventure movie, its like the movie is split into cut-scenes and you have extrordinary gameplay in between you movie.If you like this then you must play God of War and then straght onto God of War 2 where the story continues. The story is awesome, it has similar and if not better gameplay than HS. The visuals are at the top of what the PS2 is capable of, add incredible action,but the story and the way its told, wow, its better than most movies. -
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Naucious- 7:52am BST - September 28th, 2007
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I bought it played and had a great time playing the cutscene animations made me feel like I was really apart of their world and the fact that i was glued to the acting and facial expressions made me look at games never the same. I expect everyone should take in what the developers from Heavenly sword did and run with it, by far a good game but must admit a tad bit short for my $64 U.S. dollars worth.
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