Mickey Calhoun

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You mentioned that there were classic things and animations that you were wary of changing, where do you draw that line? How do you figure out what people considered to be the classic experience and what you might need to change?

I don't think there was ever any hesitancy, but there was a realization that this is freaking terrifying. Because it's not just important to us, right? Being in the COD family it really means a lot, but dude I remember skipping school for this game. So it's one of those things that it means a whole lot to be playing that game and it means a whole lot be able to bring that to the fans and trying to figure out 'what's the most important thing to me as a gamer,' and 'what's going to resonate with the community,' because there's actually a really healthy community out there. Like 20,000 people still playing on Steam pretty regularly. It's crazy, but dude they love it. If you haven't played some of their mod severs they're friendly, it's fun to play, but they're really really engaged. The Steam forums will let you know that. It is a daunting task and it has been. I would probably say regularly it was like 'okay is going to make a fan pissed off?' I think we got out in front of that really early with that 'don't f*ck with the gameplay,' as our number one tenet, and that coincides with Raven's mantra of gameplay first. So our entire team already had that mentality of we're not going to mess with what the designers say is important. We were pushing for you keep the timing the same, you keep the feel, you keep the spacial design/the level design cannot not change, but we can add personality and we can add character to it.

It's hard to remember a time when so many great games were flooding the market after the holidays. Capcom is rolling out some cool hits, continuing the Resident Evil franchise with Resident Evil: Revelations on the 3DS and topping it off with the wacky and out of control Asura's Wrath . It's just insane and Japanese enough to grab my attention. Jak and Daxter will make their return to the PlayStation in glorious HD and I couldn't be more elated to play through one of my favorite trilogies again. Yes, it was a trilogy. The spin-offs don't co

_However, now that the awards have been given out and games have been chosen, this week we're diving into the staff's selections for their top Game of the Year pick and favorite game of 2016. In this installment, Features Editor Ryan Meitzler makes the case for Blizzard's vibrant and fast-paced online shooter, Overwatch. You can also catch up on the previous features in our series on Darkest Dungeon , Firewatch , and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for our Game of the Year title

So, maybe January wasn't as high profile of a month as last year. That's fine. February will more than make up for it. With the PlayStation Vita launching later in the month, as well as many anticipated triple-A games, there should be plenty to appease gamers of all types. Here, we'll detail what we plan to play throughout Febru

Aside from that, Kingdom’s of Amalur’s trash talking has me wanting to play the game for a brand new reason. I’ve got a fighting thirst that I want to quench with Soul Calibur V and UFC Unleashed 3 , and I still haven’t given up on Syndicate tossing together a solid FPS Game patch notes experience. I’m gonna go ahead and toss in Skyrim too because let’s face it, I don’t know if I’ll finish that monster by this time next y

After a busy month of post-holiday catch-up as well as enjoying the full Portal 2 co-op campaign with a friend who is a little behind on the video game release schedule, I'm finally able to... do more catch-up. Much like in January, for the majority of this month I'll be continuing to quest in Skyrim - that is until one of my favorite game franchises returns with a second (well, version 1.5 type sequel) installment. The original (and notoriously underplayed) Alan Wake is still one of my favorite games of this generation - and I can't wait to journey back into the night for Alan Wake's American Nightmare . That said, in between Alan Wake and Skyrim play sessions, I'll one again be testing my virtual mettle on the SSX slopes. I spent a lot of hours perfecting my runs in SSX: Tricky and am eager, and hopeful, that the SSX reboot will deliver the same challenge and highflying

I feel like the line is drawn extremely hard and deep when it affects gameplay. I think that for a campaign we were definitely more liberal with our animations and additions as long they enhanced the true intent of the moment. So 'Crew Expendable,' I think you've all seen that trailer we put out a few months back. The explosion cinema had to be redone. It was just one of those ones we just couldn't match up, but there was a very specific intent that IW had with that moment and they wanted that to establish the characters. Not just who you are, because you kind of knew that at that point, but who is Price? What is he to you? Who do you follow? Where do you fit in the grouping of the people there, and when you get knocked unconscious and you're kind of just rolling around a bit, we added a lot of that personal connection to the world. We're really happy about how that all turned out, because you're reaching for your fellow soldier that's there and he's checking on you. Then Price comes along and slaps you around and says 'We're leaving!' So there's this really great tension in the moment that only needed emphasis. It didn't need to be reworked, it didn't need a ton of additions unnecessarily, but we wanted to tell the story just a little bit more and we had the opportunity. We had the manpower, the resources, and we certainly had the drive to do it so that's what we wanted to focus on.