Sunday, November 3, 2013

101 things you didn't know about games Page 5

42. David Hayter, the voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games, wrote the screenplay for the movie X-Men.

43. Nearly half the disc space on Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is taken up with dialogue.

44. When GTA first appeared (at E3 in 1997), attendees were told that to drive from one side of the game's city to the other would take players around three minutes.

45. In Halo 2’s Metropolis level of its single-player campaign, a giant football can be found tucked away on a rooftop.

46. Before settling on its nonsensical ‘Simlish’ dialogue for The Sims, the game’s creators experimented with languages such as Ukrainian, Navajo and Tagalog.


47. A total of 57 games have been released for Nokia’s N-Gage phone/handheld gaming hybrid.
48. The sprouting, titular Pikmin from the GameCube games were named after Shigeru Miyamoto’s dog.
49. Sega’s classic sunshine racer Outrun has appeared on 19 different formats.
50. A game of Animal Crossing on GameCube can last up to 29 real-time years, potentially.
51. The inflated breast size of Lara Croft was the result of designer Toby Gard accidentally adjusting the model's chest to 150% its intended size and being persuaded by other designers working on the game that the ballooned boobs should stay.

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