Female soldiers in Warface are unrealistic and sexualised because community wanted it

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Male soldiers in Crytek's huge free-to-play online shooter Warface are depicted realistically but, comparatively, female soldiers are not. Their proportions are exaggerated, their clothing is revealing - they're sexualised.
They're that way because a male-dominated audience asked for them to be. And while Crytek recoiled at the "considerably more extreme" requests, applying an authenticity filter to rule out things such as high heels, impractical open-chested combat fatigues exposing plenty of cleavage were kept in.
"They were very comfortable with the fact we have these very realistic-looking men," said Joshua Howard of the massive 7.5 million Russian audience, talking to Wired, "but they wanted the women to be not what we would think of as realistic at all, up to and including running round in high heels, which is just silly, right?"
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