ANAHEIM, California — The Diablo action role-playing games are known for their excessively bloody violence, and Blizzard is staying true to that with the upcoming Diablo III.
But, says the game’s director Jay Wilson, it’s still OK for some kids, including his 9-year-old daughter.
The popular RPG series, which has sold over 18.5 million copies worldwide, has players fighting their way through dark dungeons and brutal battles to kill the Lord of Terror and his various Hell-spawn. The upcoming third installment will include all the Diablo staples: a top-down isometric viewpoint, point-and-click gameplay and randomly generated items and maps, in addition to all the blood and gore.
At the BlizzCon convention, held this past weekend in Anaheim, the Diablo III development team gave fans a sneak peek at some grisly new features: the new Monk character class, a martial arts master whose rapid-speed abilities make for frenzied, blood-splashing kills, and new enemies such as the Fallen Lunatic, a demon that stabs itself in its chest until it explodes to damage the player.
I met Wilson’s wife and daughter as they played his game on the convention floor.
“I know my daughter well enough to know that I didn’t think she’d have any problem handling it,” said Wilson. “That being said, I don’t let her see games that have any guns in them or first-person shooters that have violence. That, to me, is a little too personal. And so, that’s where I draw the line. I think it’s got to be a really personal choice that everyone makes.”
The full Q&A with Wilson about Diablo’s gratuitous gore, including information about parental controls and the possibility that it won’t be released in China, is below. 作者: 2052677 时间: 2009-8-27 00:21
