They just dont make them like they used to: Steve: “’It’s not your university project’ Tim Stamper told us one day! As heads of Rare, the Stampers probably had to make a lot of excuses. That’s what we have to do these days. Why isn’t it out yet? Why is it crap? We never had to answer those!” Karl: “As the engine got better, we were very good at reusing things. We decided we’d do the meeting room from Moonraker, which I just loved. We couldn’t do it round, that was just too expensive, but we did a square version and linked it with being under the shuttle. Dave said those chairs just have got to fold down like in the film so we did it with door code. I remember one chair always folded wrong, but it would have taken so much coding to get it right, it was like, hey, leave it as a bug! The shuttle was made from reused satellite textures and to make it take off we used grenade explosions. That whole level is a big hack job, but it’s one of the nicest looking.” GoldenEye was always good at giving you the big picture, from the dramatic bungee jump down Byelomorye dam at the opening to the final shoot out on the Antenna Cradle, but much of its enduring charm is in the detail. Bullet holes in glass, graceful forward rolls, hats being blown off heads and the knocking knees of terrified scientists. “Those are Duncan Botwood’s knees”, laughs Karl. “He wasn’t a professional actor, he was one of the team! There was only one big motion-capture shoot and we realised someone was going to surrender at some point, so it was, ‘Put your hands up and shake your knees’. Then it would be, ‘Stand there and we’ll push you over’. I think we must have breached Health and Safety quite a lot…”
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:45:55 +0000
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