How have you made the AI so impressive?

Spector: Okay; about the best answer we have is that it's gruellingly hard work. You do a lot of playing. But the bottom line is that this whole real life stuff is really catching on, as in Knights of the Old Republic for one example.

It seems a lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon, and we've had the advantage where we've been doing this stuff since the late eighties. And so we design games that are specifically designed to allow things to emerge naturally from gameplay running its course.