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GoldenEye originally had real gun names
Did you know that GoldenEye originally had the real names of guns in its code, but those had to be removed? This was the start of when gun makers wanted to be compensated if their guns were specifically named/designed in games. GoldenEye dev Martin Hollis recalls the time when these real names/guns had to be removed.
"I was not pleased because it would decrease the realism, or at least verisimilitude. I assumed novelists and filmmakers have no compulsion to license. We removed the real gun names, replacing them with fictional ones - sometimes based on team members' initials and sometimes on a sense of authenticity. So we have the DD44 Dostovei named after [GoldenEye designer] David Doak, the Klobb after Ken Lobb and the PP7 because... It just sounds good."
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"I was not pleased because it would decrease the realism, or at least verisimilitude. I assumed novelists and filmmakers have no compulsion to license. We removed the real gun names, replacing them with fictional ones - sometimes based on team members' initials and sometimes on a sense of authenticity. So we have the DD44 Dostovei named after [GoldenEye designer] David Doak, the Klobb after Ken Lobb and the PP7 because... It just sounds good."
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