There are those things you really want to keep that are fun and make the game what it is. We have a pretty good rule, or recipe, that we follow which is: one third old, one third new and one third improved ," says Battlefield 2 producer Sean Decker from his cool and pleasant Swedish office. I Having seen the jaw-dropping screens and shaky-cam movies of Battlefield 2 that slipped out of E3 and onto pom site browsers the world over, you may well have been jaded enough to mink: "Sure, looks nice but it'll probably just be the same old game with modem tanks and that." Luckily for all of us, DICE Studios is only too aware of what's required to challenge those widely-held preconceptions. No matter how much you shake things up with visual finery, how many designs and redesigns you go through, unless the meat of your metaphorically-mixed stew is well cooked and tasty, all you're going to be left with is good-looking dishwater. There's a truism in the world of marketing, oft ignored it must be said, that goes: you can't polish a turd.
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