{"id":11091,"date":"2011-04-05T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dice-most-sandbox-games-are-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11091-dice-most-sandbox-games-are-boring","title":{"rendered":"DICE: Most sandbox games are \u201cboring\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DICE&rsquo;s senior producer Patrick Bach has told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-gen.biz\/news\/dice-%E2%80%9Cmost-sandbox-games-are-boring%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\">Edge<\/a> that unlike the somewhat open worlds of both Bad Company titles, Battlefield 3&rsquo;s game design will be rather more focussed and scripted, much like Call of Duty&rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see it as an absolute goal for all games to be sandbox games. We&rsquo;ve been building sandbox games for quite some time and we&rsquo;ve got pretty good at it, but I don&rsquo;t see that as the only way of building games, because then we wouldn&rsquo;t build campaigns at all,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;In some cases they aren&rsquo;t, but in most cases sandbox games are hardcore, boring, hard to get into and they are not very popular.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m sure it has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact the Battlefield 3 will be directly competing with whatever Call of Duty Activision decides to push out this year. Both games are scheduled to launch towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, why Battlefield 3 won\u2019t be a sandbox game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}