Black Ops’ Violence Toned down to keep everyone happy

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Speaking to the Official PlayStation Magazine, Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops animation director Dominique Drozdz has revealed how the explicitness in the upcoming FPS AAA title was deemed so realistic that they had to dial the gruesomeness down a notch.

He states:

“There were situations going too far. It was a a contextual kill where you were twisting the neck. It was too much. The throat cutting is nasty, but that was worse.”

Director Dave Anthony goes on to praise the game’s animation in general. He states:

“We’ve completely changed the way we do facial animation. Some of the stuff we’ve done with Gary Oldman’s character is amazing.”

How do you feel about this act of self-censorship? Have we reached the point in gaming where titles appear so realistic that their creators need to rein in how violence is depicted? Isn’t this game rated accordingly? Don’t people in other forms of entertainment get their necks twisted? Or are Treyarch doing the sensible thing by removing what some might consider unsettling or distasteful imagery?

A neck-twisting-less Call of Duty: Black Ops is out on November 9th.

If anything it should be more violent.

3dayslayer wrote:

If anything it should be more violent.

Why? I don't buy a game for the violence, I buy it to play and have fun. More violence would just be unnecessary.

I just think in the past the call of duty games havent been realistic enough with blood and gore. Well actually i take that back world at war was realistic and good.

Horizon its a War game and if they want a realistic War game like they've been trying to achieve they need to make it more violent like a real war would be

A realistic war game would involve sitting behind a rock for 3 hours and shooting at two or three people...

Discopants wrote:

A realistic war game would involve sitting behind a rock for 3 hours and shooting at two or three people...

You can do that online...

Perfect Jack wrote:

Discopants wrote:

A realistic war game would involve sitting behind a rock for 3 hours and shooting at two or three people...

You can do that online...

But, when in war one tends not to run around hip firing each other before dying quickly and coming back to life 3 seconds later...

Discopants wrote:

Perfect Jack wrote:

Discopants wrote:

A realistic war game would involve sitting behind a rock for 3 hours and shooting at two or three people...

You can do that online...

But, when in war one tends not to run around hip firing each other before dying quickly and coming back to life 3 seconds later...

I agree, or lunging at people from half way across the map using Commando Pro.

A realistic war game would involve sitting behind a rock for 3 hours and shooting at two or three people...

Ha thats true but i meant realistic as in the blood and gore

a rock is hardly good cover as your human extremities and weapon would create a distinct outline more likely for realism you spend 2 days awake in a puddle of your own shit and piss lying very still and reporting any movement. Before requestin if you are allowed to shoot a target. And most likely you wont as it will compromise your position. That's scout sniping anyway lol. I often wonder how people on cod would cope in a real war lol not very well i'd say. I should have done an infantry write up instead. Wait for weeks in a tent then go on patrol and get blown up or struck by a stray bullet from suppressive fire.