Cinematics Leviathan
Of course – everyone else blogging about that interview Gamasutra had with Blizzard is fretting about that mysterious team 3. I got hooked on something else:
In terms of development staff it’s probably around 350. World of Warcraft is about 135 people, 40 for Starcraft II, 40 for team 3, our cinematics team is about 85 guys. [emphasis mine]
That explains a lot of things. Not only do they have their own dedicated cinematics team, it is also more than twice as big as the development teams of two of their games! No wonder they can push out intros of the quality of late Square Pictures …