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I don’t know if you’ve seen the best Friday the 13th film, Jason X?"
I hold myself back from arguing the case for Freddy vs Jason and let him finish.
Namely, the practical effects involved in pulling them off.
“I’d never seen anything like it before in my life.
He also points to memorable non-zombie movies, too.
“Robocop was another one that I watched at an early age [featuring] extreme practical effects.
“One of the things that I did was material effects,” explains Evans.
Surgical images proved a more ethical alternative to staring at real-life gore, but a key inspiration?
“Practical effects from films, obviously.”
To Evans, the gore became the main draw of the project.
Like, there’s a lot of zombie games, you know what I mean?
Evans isn’t wrong in that.
“[The zombie genre] takes itself pretty seriously.
The market’s saturated.'
We’re gonna be an 18 game let’s f*cking earn it.”
“So we didn’t want to do the same thing.
Everything feels like it is reacting in a way that feels believable, but exaggerated.
Well, sort of.
“I think we did have one employee leave because it was too violent,” Evans laughs.
People felt like it was a good progression.”
This feeling of progression is perhaps what sets Dead Island 2 apart.
“It’s an interesting one with games, isn’t it?”
“When it comes to movies, I am very anti-remake.
One reason for this difference is hinted at in Evans' own job title.
So I think that there are arguments for remaking games.
I’d always prefer a sequel, though,” Evans muses.
“Just make something that’s a bit different.”
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