Jak 3: Guard Animations - Shield?!?

Описание: The guards in Jak 3 are basically just copy-pasted directly from Jak II, including most of their animations. But it seems they wanted to give them shield mechanics at some point. We have already seen the unused shield sphere of the guards, which was likely just a placeholder.
We can safely assume that the shield animations seen in this video were going to be accompanied by a shield model as well.

Having actors with physical shields was something that Naughty Dog already worked with. See the "Centurion" enemy of Jak II for example.
We can believe that if they wanted to implement it for the guards, they could have done so because they had the necessary expertise and experience. So maybe they cut it because it didn't feel good in gameplay?

Recorded in OpenGOAL. The extra yellow parts you see are due to a bug in Anim Tester X, which is a feature implemented by OpenGOAL developers. It is not yet added to Jak 3, but I tried adding it myself locally and it seems that it is working.

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