Interview: Josef Fares On It Takes Two's BAFTA Win

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Josef Fares is a man who knows how to make an impression at an award show. As well as It Takes Two sweeping several of the big gongs across this award season, it was one of the most nominated titles at the BAFTAs, eventually winning Original Property and Multiplayer. His charismatic, off-script style and his famous opinions on the Oscars have made him a huge crowd favourite at events like this, and TheGamer spoke to Fares before the show and after It Takes Two's Original Property win to get his thoughts on all things from Street Fighter to Will Smith.

It Takes Two has been a smash hit of the award season, despite its lack of connection to a long-running series, blockbuster budget, and its reliance on a potentially divisive co-op mechanic. The success has taken Fares by surprise too, although he always had faith in the game itself. "I wasn't surprised that what we're doing was something very special," he tells me before the show. "But both for me and the team it has been over our expectations. The support from the critics, the players, the reactions, the sales, everything's over our expectations, but we knew we had a great game."

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"We always make a game that we want to play," he says. "We never like to look at what the market needs, the industry needs, or what people want to play or people that don't play. We just do it from love and passion. I think those words are used a lot in the gaming industry, but we really do it that way. I think that's what people are feeling. When I presented A Way Out a lot of people didn't believe in it, I'm like, 'okay, that doesn't matter'. I've never really cared. Go with the flow, trust your gut feelings."

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