You guys have elevated the industry in terms of making the game realistic. Do you feel like this is the best and most authentic video game in the world?
Yes, 100 percent. It’s a huge year for it. One of the huge pieces this year that makes this game so special is the HyperMotion V. It’s a long been a dream for us developers to get that real world animation from not just athletes but real world situations. You’re going to see a new level of authencity. so you get that extra level of effort, you get, you know, that, that crazy Haaland almost karate kick goal. You could never motion capture that. But now we’re able to pull that kind of top level athlete from the top level game. So you’re going to see a new level of authenticity within the animation and the game play that we never thought, we never thought possible.
You know, we used to do motion captures with athletes and, you know, we use the likes of Messi and Ronaldo, but they’re always in a motion cap suit in a kind of weird alien space and they give 100%. It’s still not truly authentic, right? But now with HyperMotion V, we’re getting all that authenticity. So it’s huge. That revolutionary word is probably thrown about too much in the games industry but I think that this is revolutionary tech.
With the integration of the women’s game, how have diferred the women’s presentation from the men’s presentation or is it exactly the same?
No, we try to do everything as authentically as possible. So the authenticity in the women’s game is driven by how it is represented in the real world. So the women’s Champions League will have all the women’s Champions League or broadcast overlays and all. And one of the things that we want to do when we do bring the women’s game to our game is do it authentic and do it 100% on an equal level as the men’s game. So the player skeleton is a good example.
So obviously that was the reason we want to get to a level, a new level of kind of 10 times more anatomically correct. It was not only to improve the authenticity of the men, but also the women and get that right. So in terms of presentation, a lot of it is driven by the real world. So that kind of inflects how we treat it. It’s not different per se, but it’s different in how you would see a woman’s game on TV.
