Peter Molyneux: Kikizo Video Interview

We sit down with Peter again to talk exclusively about everything including Black and White 2, The Movies, more Fable and the top secret project known as Dimitri.

With Fable now finally gold and many of you looking forward to it even more following the gigantic video interview and feature we brought you directly from Lionhead Studios, you might think it's time for industry luminary Peter Molyneux to take a break, but by jove, you'd be wrong.

The ultimate Peter Molyneux interview, only on Kikizo

As one of the world's most recognised and prolific development houses, Lionhead Studios has a huge and impressive selection of titles in the pipeline, including the epochal sequel that is Black and White 2, the highly ambitions The Movies, and the mysterious top-secret project known as Dimitri.

Peter is revealing as always...

Today, we bring you this extensive 30-minute video interview with the genre-busting Populous and Theme Park creator, in a typically talkative and revealing mood, as he discusses all these titles and a great deal more besides:

KEY PROJECTS
•   Which Lionhead projects he is most closely involved with at the moment and how the schedule will develop
•   The people working on Black and White 2 and The Movies - what they bring to the project.
•   Black and White 2 - "It's going to be absolutely awesome" - why? What's it all about?
•   A lot of new mechanics and the use of physics in B&W2 - explain.
•   The Movies - the concept and the system behind it.
•   The AI systems in The Movies - Lionhead's best AI yet?
•   The Movies "breaks out of the bounds of a normal game" - why?
•   Peter says something significant is going to happen to AI... what, why?

BACK TO FABLE
•   Sexual content in Fable - how, why? Discuss!
•   Why has it taken the industry taken so long to put sexual content in games?
•   Censorship in Fable - infamously - what are the implications on the original vision?

CENSORSHIP
•   Why censorship will become a REAL issue to games...
•   "There will be some game or system that'll be very controversial in the next couple of years..."

DIMITRI
•   At long last - Peter talks about Dimitri for the first time! "If I told you more, you just wouldn't believe me."
•   The stage Dimitri is at and how big is the project? How does Lionhead perceive the project?

NEXT GENERATION
•   Next generation - what has Peter's initial impressions taught him?
•   "We have to stop games taking four years."
•   XNA and why Peter hopes it works.
•   How will the Xenon/PS3/N-Rev thing play out? What is next gen's potential?

DEVELOPMENT
•   The death rate of the games development scene - issues - discuss.
•   Re: Developers - have you considered satellite scheme like Karl Jeffrey & Climax?
•   "The Pitch" - How do you convince publishers your games will sell?
•   "You just can't design in the blue sky."
•   "There are not enough people with enough confidence to invest in £20m projects..."
•   "That's the day we start making crap to be honest with you." - what day's that?!

COMPLEX/SIMPLE
•   Do you agree with Satoru Iwata's stance that games are too complicated? Fable's pretty complicated!
•   "People don't want to feel like they're learning..."
•   Are you ever tempted to make really simple games?
•   Exclusive - Peter would love to make a soccer game! Why?
•   Rag Doll Kung Fu - what the hey?
•   Wario Ware - "My mouth dropped open"

THE PC
•   "There's been very little to make me excited..."
•   Peter discusses Half-Life 2, Doom 3 - the PC's potential...

PLUS
•   Plus a sneaky outtake...

It's another must-see video interview.
Peter says: "direct file linkers will be destroyed!"

The Academy of IA&S Hall of Fame winner is intriguing and tantalising as always. It's the ultimate Molyneux interview for 2004, and in short, this is another must-see Kikizo video feature. Without further ado, get downloading - and if you enjoy it, you know where to send those letters of thanks and adoration...

Adam Doree
Interview conducted by Adam Doree and Alex Wollenschlaeger