You can do a lot in Battlefield 3, but you can’t shoot innocent bystanders. Why’s that? Because if you can, you probably will, and that’s just a tabloid headline waiting to happen.
“If you put the player in front of a choice where they can do good things or bad things, they will do bad things, go dark side – because people think it’s cool to be naughty, they won’t be caught,” executive producer Patrick Bach tells Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
“In a game where it’s more authentic, when you have a gun in your hand and a child in front of you what would happen? Well the player would probably shoot that child.”
Of course, that’s not an entirely unlikely contingency in real life, if WikiLeaks is to be believed, but that’s another matter altogether. The real problem here is…
“We would be the ones to be blamed,” explains Bach. “We have to build our experiences so we don’t put the player in experiences where they can do bad things.”
“Me personally, I’m trying to stay away from civilians in games like BF because I think people will do bad. I don’t want to see videos on the internet where people shoot civilians. That’s something I will sanitise by removing that feature from the game.”
“That doesn’t mean that I don’t want people to feel that war is not good,” he adds. “We are trying to do something that is more mature. Mature not being gore – some people confuse the two. That’s childish actually, to want more blood.”
“I’d say that’s a rather pessimistic outlook, but then, I’ve also seen forum posts raving about how awesome it was shooting everybody in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s controversial “No Russian” sequence. So maybe not such a pessimistic outlook, actually.”
Read the full interview over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
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