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HUDisplay: What was it like working on God of War 3 and the God of War series in general?

John Palamarchuk: It’s fun. From an art standpoint, it’s a really interesting world to work in. Greek mythology is really fun – we put our own spin on it. When you play through the game you’ll see the variety of the worlds; it’s pretty phenomenal. You’re going to these different places.  Building all those worlds was really exciting with the artists.

You started working on God of War 2.What were the biggest challenges coming from God of War 2 to God of War 3?

Living up to God of War 3 and hopefully surpassing it. We were really happy with what we were able to pull off on the PS2. And now we were jumping on this new hardware and the technology was completely different. This is our first game on PS3, so how do we tackle that and from a design standpoint how do we design something that is new and innovative e that you’ve never seen before. So we have those titan levels that were pretty unique. We were trying to build off of the G0W franchise but also make improvements across the board. A ton of new camera features, graphics, all this new code tech. it’s a blast as far as working on PS3. We loved it.

Kratos’ kills have gotten way more gruesome. Was there anything that the designers had to leave out?

From a technical standpoint we were able to put in everything we wanted for the entire game. In the end, for the ratings, we had to pull some things or tone them down. There are some parts in the story that are pretty serious emotional, so if the gore got too crazy or the kills got too crazy then we would pull them out of that emotional experience, so we would retune that to keep it serious. But yeah, we kicked up the blood and gore. It’s HD now, so you’ll see a lot of stuff.

The centaur kills it.

The centaur is cool from the E3 demo, but we take it much farther than that in the full game. The centaur isn’t even on my radar (laughs)

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Cute pink things attract the girl in me while gadgets appeal more to the nerd in me.

I just love something that embraces multiple parts of me like this:

A pink Wii remote with motion plus that sells for just under 50$ on Amazon!!

This also reminds me of a story I heard the other day about this hot rebulican chick from Ohio who got boasted owning a pink handgun, which increased her crazy:hott ratio beyond attraction.

Kay, getting to the point… I think pink is great on some tech like Wii-motes but let’s not get overboard – plus guns aren’t cool (guns kill people)! But if there is some reasonably cool pink tech out there we would like — it just about all of my gamer girl peeps would like one — maybe yours too. Just saying… if you wanna get closer to your gamergirl, get her one of these & prepare a date of playing Wii all night. Good luck ;P

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Todd McFarlane is tired of all the runarounds he’s been getting from Hollywood regarding his Spawn film franchise. It’s been awhile since the first Spawn movie, but McFarlane hasn’t forgotten about his most popular creation.

McFarlane has never been shy about his Spawn 2 plans. Last year he announced he was working on a ‘darker, grittier, scarier’ script for the next Spawn movie. Apparently three smaller Hollywood studios are interested in the project, but McFarlane wasn’t naming any.

“All the small guys go ‘that thing [First Spawn film] opened up to $20 million last time!’ We could do a talking head [indie movie] for 8-9 million bucks or we can add an extra million to the budget and make a Spawn movie? Rock and Roll!”

McFarlane spoke to Newsarama about his Spawn 2 plan while in New York City recently to promote his McFarlane Toys 2010 product line at Toy Fair.

“I’ve had the idea in my head for over 10 years and I want to write, produce and direct it and just go, ‘here it is.’ I’m 80% through the script, I did my due diligence, went around Hollywood, listened to the pitches from all the big studios, but I just went, ‘nah, I need to make this small and tight and contained. At this point in my life, I’d rather keep it smaller and maybe get fewer people to come see it, but actually just sort of extract out of my brain what I’ve been living with for the past 10 years.”

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My two cents with Carol Zara:

Indie? Small?

WTF, McFarlane!? Spawn 1 was good for 1997 (meaning: that movie is garbage now) . We’re in 2010 and you’re talking about making a small superhero movie???? Films based on comics need to be of EPIC proportions, otherwise it’ll fail.

If that’s the mentality around Spawn 2…. before McFarlane is even done with the script… FACEPALM.

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