Three Speech was at the Mayfair hotel in London earlier this week to witness the unveiling of the PS3s biggest post-release title, Heavenly Sword, expected this September. From what weve seen and played, its going to be an epic next-gen fantasy romp, involving a gorgeous, flame-haired warrior princess, a whole heap of medieval violence and hoardes of monsters to slice and dice your way through.
On hand to shoot the breeze at the swanky event was top-ranking CGI actor Andy Serkis - better known as Gollum and King Kong. Hes in the game as the brilliant evil king, and also directed the games other actors in its many beautiful, cinematic cut-scenes.
Andy revealed how he came to work on the game through the unlikeliest of situations and explained how motion capture has given Heavenly Sword its hyper-realistic look and feel. We also spoke to developers Ninja Theory in some detail about the games genesis, its stunning graphic realisation and next-gen combat system - and how the game was in development just waiting for the PS3 to make it all possible.
Then we had a natter with Mercury-award winning musician Nitin Sawhney, who wrote the soundtrack. He explained just why he need a whole philharmonic orchestra and half the worlds ethnic musicians to capture the essence of Heavenly Sword through music.
Oh, and we also managed to grab some time with the gorgeous girls whose faces and figures were mapped out and motion captured to be the games firey lead Nariko and her in-game companion Kai. All well say about that is, grrrr.
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