Derek Daniels: da God of War a Quantum of Solace Multi

"So what we did was we got the God of War combat designer to come over, his name's Derek Daniels, he's a great guy, really good designer, and we said look, what is enjoyable, feels responsive, feels like you're involved but you don't have to sit there and press every single button? So we came up with a melee system that's very straightforward and you don't have to do it either. That's the other thing. One of the things in the Bourne game is you're forced into it. We elected not to do that. You can choose whether to do it or not. You can just keep using your gun all the way through but if you want to get into melee combat that is available to you. And when you do it's very straightforward, it's fairly simple button presses with consequences obviously if you fail but not drastic, it's fairly casual. We want to keep it fairly simple."