draconus
05-18-2006, 01:42 PM
The guys over at MPOGL.com (http://www.mpogl.com) had a chance to ask a few questions to James Hettinger, the CEO of Icarus Studios, about there upcoming MMORPG title "Fallen Earth".
MPOGL: By looking at the screenshots the game kind of has a Road Warrior type feel to it. Were the Road Warrior movies an influence behind the project or did the team have any other major influences?
James Hettinger: There's a whole body of post-collapse, post-apocalypse media that influenced us and that we feel we're adding to. In films, not just the Mad Max series, but also their precursors: the Planet of the Apes movies, Logan's Run, The Omega Man, as well as some recent films such as The Postman and Waterworld. And of course there are the lesser known jewels like Le Dernier Combat, Luc Besson's first feature (the precursor of Mad Max), and a million B movies from the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties.
You can read the full Q&A here (http://www.mpogl.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=705&Itemid=42).
MPOGL: By looking at the screenshots the game kind of has a Road Warrior type feel to it. Were the Road Warrior movies an influence behind the project or did the team have any other major influences?
James Hettinger: There's a whole body of post-collapse, post-apocalypse media that influenced us and that we feel we're adding to. In films, not just the Mad Max series, but also their precursors: the Planet of the Apes movies, Logan's Run, The Omega Man, as well as some recent films such as The Postman and Waterworld. And of course there are the lesser known jewels like Le Dernier Combat, Luc Besson's first feature (the precursor of Mad Max), and a million B movies from the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties.
You can read the full Q&A here (http://www.mpogl.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=705&Itemid=42).