One of my favorite accomplishments has been pulling off some humor by means of gameplay. Timing a punchline is really hard when the player has control of the pacing. “The Devastator” was a fetch quest where the RPG-weilding Mercenary was sent to retrieve a classified weapon, only to find out The Devastator is a scooter with a flower basket.
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With Mercs 2, Pandemic wanted to show off the Havok physics engine. It was a radical idea to make everything in the game destructible. Engineering provided Lua hooks for triggering Havok events like impulses, and it provided a great deal of versatility for me as a Designer. For the “River Cruise” mission I slapped a jet engine onto a motorboat. For a mission that was really a lure to pull the player across the map, the Jet Boat added a lot more fun.
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