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Oct 19, 2007
Oct 19, 2007
The first day of E for All is in the books. With three more days of gaming floor shows, demos, and industry elbow rubbing yet to go, we’ll start off our coverage of the event wih an interview with one of the masterminds (aka Senior Producer) behind Firaxis Games latest version of its epic game series Civilization, Mr. Barry Barry Caudill. Mr. Caudill was gracious enough to take a few moments to share his thoughts on Civilizations jump to the next-gen console marketplace.
CraveOnline: What are your expectations concerning the first next-gen console version of Civilization?
CraveOnline: What were the major issues barring the series from the consoles until now?
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CraveOnline: Will the increasing sophistication of the home consoles eventually put an end to PC gaming?
Barry Caudill: I don’r think so, because lets say the console will jump out every five years and it will set the bench mark and for that brief period of time the console is the end all be all and its better than the PC and everybody goes, “Oh the PC is dead.” But, within that interim five years the PC catches up and surpasses them. So, I think theres always going to be both markets because there are certain things about the console that are great, since you know the hardware, you can take full advantage of the hardware, because farther and farther into the lifespan of a console, people know more and more about how to get more horsepower out of it, so the games that come out at the end of the consoles cycle are amazing compared to what they were in the beginning. But on the PC, it’s always about the processors getting faster all the time, graphics cards get better, you can add more RAM easily. So I think that that makes them viable, and I also think because its easier to develop for the PC that’s going to be the home of like, independent games and casual games and smaller games. So no matter what, even if the hardcore games left the PC, which I don’t think they will, even then you’ll still have a market there, its easy to build for, games like Gears of War on the PC will have moding tools that you can’t find on the console, so we’ll see or like the Quake 4 engine, people can make stuff in that engine cheaply and easily in their garage or whatever with a couple people and put it out and get noticed in the industry, were as you can’t necessarily do that on the console right now. Even though Microsoft is addressing that with the XNA and all that type of stuff.CraveOnline: Is integration possible between PC and console?
Barry Caudill: It’s possible, it could be I think you’re starting to see games that are more cross platform like Shadowrun that was onCraveOnline: Are there any other gaming genres that have peeked your company’s interest as far as developing?
Barry Caudill: You mean besides our strategy games? I feel we’ve actually been pretty open to ideas because we basically do what we find fun, so if you look at a game like Civilization or Alpha Centauri which are hard core ‘turned based’ strategy games, and then you look at say… Pirates! which is a light hearted action adventure game or you look at Sid (Meier) making 3-D Golf, which is sort of a sports simulator, they all have a strategy element to them, but their all different games, and Railroads was a real time game that we just came out with. We don’t like to limit ourselves, but everything we do is probably going to have a little more strategy implemented in it than your going to find in other genre’s, you know, we’re into to tactical games too, I mean we love strategy, but there are also smaller, more tactical games as well, we also really like the handhelds, we still love the PC, I think you’ll see some really interesting things come out of us over the next couple of years.CraveOnline: Do you have a pick for game of the year?
Barry Caudill: I haven’t seen it, but I got this gut feeling that Mass Effect might be the game this year.Not in any way associated with Crave Entertainment, Inc.
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